PC World – Vista Is Still Plagued by Incompatibilities October 24, 2007 Vista Is Still Plagued by Incompatibilities. This is not good for the general “Microsoft PR” campaign. With Leopard being released and Linux looking better,…
WARNING: device driver updates causing Vista to deactivate October 23, 2007 After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I’ve finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA — something as small as swapping the video card…
Is Acacia link with Microsoft just smoke? BayStar Capital and the dead SCO! October 23, 2007 In terms of proving a link between Microsoft and Acacia this is smoke, just as the move of two Microsoft executives to Acacia unit…
Apple should start offering Windows-based Macs October 23, 2007 Here’s a question that I received from yesterday’s mail bag: Apple’s a lot easier to understand when you stop looking at it as a…
Windows auto-update case closed? Microsoft thinks users are to blame! October 23, 2007 I am really not sure if Microsoft truly understands what is happening in the real world. Maybe they do not care or is there…
Vista and 100 Reasons Why Everyone’s So Speechless October 22, 2007 “I wasn’t a big fan of the “Wow” campaign around Windows Vista. But its newest incarnation — 100 Reasons Why Everyone’s So Speechless —…
Microsoft agrees: Windows is a “really large bloated operating system” October 22, 2007 We’re seeing signs that Microsoft is rethinking its monolithic approach to not only the mass-market Windows operating system but the entire family of Windows…
How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu October 22, 2007 We all know how far open source software has progressed, but has it come so far to not only challenge Windows, but replace it?…
Why I’ve moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10 October 22, 2007 “Have we reached the beginning of the tipping point? I think we may just have.” Since the late 90s I’ve dabbled with Linux, but…
Stripped-down ‘MinWin’ kernel to be at the core of Windows 7 and more… October 19, 2007 Microsoft has created a stripped-down version of the Windows core, called MinWin, that will be at the heart of future Windows products, starting with…