By Dan Morrill on August 22, 2009
Image by Josh Bancroft via Flickr When you go to a convention you really never know what you are really going to get. Sometimes you get something totally cool that makes you stop and think, while at other times you get stuff that is so mind bogglingly dull that it is hard to believe that […]
Posted in General | Tagged Creative Commons, facebook, FriendFeed, Gnomedex, Robert Scoble, seattle, windows 7
By Zoli Erdos on August 10, 2009
Harry McCracken lists the Sixteen Reasons the Windows Vista Era Never Quite Happened. I almost agree with him, except that I do have 50 reasons to remember the Vista Era: it is the Fifty bucks ransom I paid to get out of this nightmare called Vista. So, yes, it happened. But it won’t be missed. […]
Posted in Just for fun | Tagged microsoft, operating system, os, vista, vista era, vista final, vistasucks, win7, windows, windows 7, windows xp, winxp
By Zoli Erdos on August 7, 2009
It’s back-to-school time, and there are some amazing bargains if you’re looking for new laptops: following Walmart, just about all major retailers offer at least one sub $300 model – a bit underpowered, if you ask me, but for $100 more you can get fairly powerful computers, still below the $500 treshold. Netbooks are no […]
Posted in General | Tagged acer timeline, customer service, ideapad, laptop, lawsuit, lenovo, microsoft, netbook, super-slim, vista, win7 upgrade, windows, windows 7 |
By Ben Kepes on July 3, 2009
It pains me to say it but I’m a Gen X-er – admittedly I’m towards the younger end of Gen X but I’m there nonetheless. As such I’m no doubt seen as prehistoric, decrepit and pretty much due for the scrap heap. Despite all of this I’m fairly certain I’ve got a couple of years […]
Posted in Design, Product reviews | Tagged android, dell, linux, mini 12, moblin, netbook, notebook, situational device, studio xps, vista, windows 7, xp |
By Zoli Erdos on June 26, 2009
Fellow Windows Vista victims, there’s light at the end of the tunnel: we may soon set ourselves free and only have to pay a $50 ransom. I just did. It has been obvious for quite a while that Microsoft simply abandoned Vista and it’s users, and instead of releasing Vista SP3, or Vista Final, it […]
Posted in Analysis, Marketing | Tagged microsoft, operating system, os, vista, vista final, vistasucks, win7, windows, windows 7, windows upgrade, windows xp, winxp |
By Zoli Erdos on June 7, 2009
Which is about now… so in compliance, I am typing this on a desktop. Joke apart, the latest Decree From The Monopolist: hybrid netbooks (both SSD and harddisk) are banned from sale with Windows XP Home edition. No kidding. Nothing new, of course, just another attempt in a series of blows by Microsoft to try […]
Posted in General | Tagged hybrid storage, microsoft, monopoly, netbook, netbooks, ssd, win7, windows 7, windows xp, winxp
By Zoli Erdos on June 3, 2009
(This is an image-only post, sorry if it did not properly come through in your feed reader) Related posts: Microsoft to use a new term for netbook Microsoft Wants to Rebrand Netbooks ‘Low-Cost Small Notebook PCs’ MS redefines “netbook” to push up Win 7 price Microsoft Says That The Term ‘Netbook’ Should Be Abandoned Microsoft: […]
Posted in General | Tagged lcsnpc, microsoft, netbook, netbooks, notebook, win7, windows 7 |
By Zoli Erdos on May 26, 2009
The proliferation of affordable netbooks is good for everyone – consumers, that is. Computer manufacturers loath it (high volume, low margin business) and so does Microsoft: they can’t exactly sell $100+ worth of software on a $200 machine. So they come up with all sorts of evil plans. First there was the Windows 7 plan: […]
Posted in Analysis | Tagged android, intel, linux, microsoft, monopoly, netbook, netbooks, operating system, os, price fixing, scam, web apps, windows, windows 7 |
By Zoli Erdos on May 22, 2009
A few months ago I predicted Microsoft would be facing lawsuits due to the 3-app limitation of Windows 7 Starter Edition, or more precisely due to less than full disclosure on sales of netbooks crippled by Win7. The Wall Street Journal did not go as far as lawsuits, but it called it a big gamble: […]
Posted in Analysis | Tagged android, linux, microsoft, netbook, netbooks, operating system, os, talkingaboutwindows, web apps, windows, windows 7
By Zoli Erdos on March 4, 2009
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 […]
Posted in Analysis | Tagged class action lawsuit, lawsuit, microsoft, netbooks, operating systems, vista, windows, windows 7 |
By Zoli Erdos on February 11, 2009
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 […]
Posted in Marketing | Tagged marketing, microsoft, operating system, os, vista, vista final, vistasucks, windows, windows 7, windows live movie maker, windows movie maker |
By Zoli Erdos on February 9, 2009
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 […]
Posted in General | Tagged customet support, microsoft, operating system, os, technical support, virtualinvoice, vista, vistasucks, windows, windows 7 |
By Guest Authors on February 7, 2009
I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta on my home machine to find a fish swimming on my desktop: But not just any fish, its a Siamese fighting fish, also knows a “betta fish” (or just “betta”). A subtle Microsoft joke? Hope it does a better job selectively breeding this one (and get rid of […]
Posted in Product reviews | Tagged betta fish, microsoft, MSFT, windows 7 |
By Zoli Erdos on January 8, 2009
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 […]
Posted in Analysis | Tagged microsoft, operating system, os, vista, vistasucks, windows, windows 7 |
By Zoli Erdos on January 2, 2009
If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 – says Ed Bott on ZDnet. Windows 7: Mojave My Ass –complains Jason Perlow. Dwight Silverman confirms: Sorry, but Windows 7 isn’t a return to Windows XP, while others don’t refrain from some name-calling. Sorry guys, you’re all wrong. You’re debating the merits of an operating […]
Posted in General | Tagged applications, microsoft, operating system, os, ui, vista, vistasucks, windows 7, windows bugs, Windows Mojave Experiment, windows performance |