What Lauren and We All Missed: TCO
So Lauren is the new Microsoft star. Sure, she is prettier than The Dude, but may not be a lot smarter if she thinks the $699 piece of crap low-end PC is anywhere comparable to the Macbook Pro. But perhaps it does not have to be comparable: she may not need a higher end system [...]
The Great Microsoft Confusion Never Ends
Microsoft is not exactly known for friendly, or even just understandable product version numbering. We barely swallowed the Windows 7 SKU nightmare, now here’s another one. A little while ago as part of the new Windows Live tools, Microsoft released a new version of Windows Live Movie Maker. Supposedly an upgrade, users were shocked to [...]
We All Work For Microsoft
This years first Patch Tuesday in January was a relatively small one, but the previous one in December was a real Monster, the biggest in five years. I wasn’t really surprised when it failed to install – that was just business as usual: The fact that the Get help with this error link brought up [...]
Free Upgrade to Vista Final (Code-named Windows 7) is a Good First Step, but Not Enough
Put the last nail in the Vista coffin. Windows 7 is on the fast track. – good summary of the Windows situation by Signal to Noise. Yes, Win 7 Beta will be available for download starting tomorrow, and it promises to be less of a resource hog than Vista. Microsoft also talks about providing free [...]
It's the End of the World as MS Knows It
Watch (and listen to) this video while reading this post – it’s the start of the end of the world as some people know it and here at CloudAve we feel fine! In recent days we’ve heard some pretty exciting CloudOS elated news. First Good OS the other day debuted their product "Cloud" an operating [...]
Ready for Vista Final? (Code-named Windows 7)
For the second day TechMeme is overflowing with Microsoft news coming out of PDC: Azure, Windows 7, Web Office (whatever the MS name will be). But on the very day that supposedly all belonged to Microsoft there was a stream of seemingly unrelated items on TechMeme all pointing in the same direction, none too good [...]
Breaking news – Microsoft Accepts that Operating Systems are Dead!
OK, OK that title was a little (very) tongue in cheek. However it was really interesting to read that the next version of Windows, Windows 7, will ship without any e-mail, photo editing, and movie making applications built in. Operating system general manager Brian Hall was quoted as saying that; It makes it much cleaner [...]
