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 [...]
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 [...]
Patch Tuesday: Monster Windows Update DOA
I normally rely on automatic Windows updates, but reading how big a monster this Tuesday’s patch is (the biggest in five years) I decided to get a head start now and let it cook overnight. Yeah, right: Windows could not search for new updates. But luckily enough there’s a Get help with this error link… [...]
Netbook or Notebook? It’s Not Only About Size.
Hardly a day goes by without another new Netbook announcement, at lower and lower prices. The first baby eee PC by ASUS was toy-like ( I returned it after a day), but the current crop are quite usable mobile computing devices. These new Netbooks are flying off the shelf, so much so that sometimes you [...]
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 [...]
AWS is Enterprise Ready
Image via CrunchBase With PDC in the horizon and the expected cloud announcements by Microsoft, Amazon just took a giant step forward in positioning its cloud offerings to be ready for enterprise adaption. Today they made quite a few announcements that is likely to gain the enterprise attention. Amazon EC2 is officially out of beta [...]
Amazon announces Windows based EC2 Instances
Image via CrunchBase In an attempt to pre-empt Microsoft’s possible announcement about their cloud offerings in the upcoming PDC at Los Angeles later this month, Amazon Web Services has announced support for Windows Server on their EC2 instances. You can read this announcement here. You can sign up to get notified about the release at AWS [...]
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 [...]
