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 [...]
Market Share vs. Popularity
Who am I to question the great Walt Mossberg? But when he says Internet Explorer is the World’s most popular browser I have to wonder… Here’s a definition of popularity from Wikipedia: Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or common. Looks like Mossberg is right if we focus on common. Internet Explorer is no [...]
Predicting the First Windows 7 Lawsuits
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Vista Capable lawsuit has not even settled yet, and I am predicting the next one: the first Windows 7 Lawsuits – not necessarily against Microsoft, but hardware manufacturers / sellers. Microsoft is setting the stage for these lawsuits now. The essence of the Vista Capable issue was that [...]
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 [...]
Sales Pitch: We Remove Vista
2008 REDUX It’s the holiday season, and let’s be real, who reads blogs now? OK, you are the exception, thank you very much for being a substantial percentage of our holiday readership. Anyway, this is the time for lighter blogging, and I’m taking a clue from ReadWriteWeb who came up with the idea of [...]
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 [...]
My Daily Vista Rant, or Why Desktop Software is a Failed Model
Vista isn’t really that crappy – says Gizmodo this morning. Well, I won’t tell you what I think ( I’ve done my fair share), I'll just let you decide. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words… well, then how about a video? Yes, all I was trying to delete empty folder structures from [...]
