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 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 December 29, 2008
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 […]
Posted in General | Tagged 2008 redux, humor, microsoft, vista, vistasucks, windows, winxp, xp
By Zoli Erdos on October 31, 2008
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 […]
Posted in Analysis | Tagged acer, asus, bloatware, crapware, dell, devicevm, hp, lenovo, linux, mobility, netbooks, notebooks, online, situational computer, situational device, situational hardware, splashtop, web applications, web office, windows, winxp |