Fifty Reasons Why the Vista Era Did Happen, Indeed
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. […]
Your Ransom to Break Free of Vista: $50 Win7 Upgrade – Catch it While You Can
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 […]
Microsoft Bans Netbook Use When the Sun is Shining, the Sky is Blue and on Weekends
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
