Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Sep 2nd, 2008
I spent some of today wondering why it is that no Microsoft employee has suffered any public retribution for what they inflict on us.
Until today Skype had never worked properly on my Vista PC. I gave up long ago and used another PC for Skype. Periodically I updated Skype on the Vista box, and tried [...]
Posted in Misc on Aug 26th, 2008
Who seriously believes Vista is as good as it ought to be?
Bill Gates thinks the I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC ads are unfair. In fact, the blue screen of a crashed Windows machine projected in the Bird’s Nest stadium during the Beijing olympics said it all. Apple isn’t successfully misleading consumers, it’s giving them a simpler and more reliable alternative (most of the time!).
Posted in Misc on Apr 12th, 2008
There has been a lot of chatter on the net lately about Gartner saying that Microsoft Windows is collapsing under its own weight. Elsewhere there are claims that this is why it’s desperate to buy Yahoo. Windows and Office are the cash cows and they are looking vulnerable, supposedly.
I suspect that the end is not [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 27th, 2007
I am writing this, a little reluctantly, using an impressive offline blogging tool called Microsoft Live Writer. My misgivings arise in part because I am unhappy with Microsoft’s attempts to bundle extra software and get it onto my computer. The installation for Live Writer offers first this
and then this list of additional software
Yes, I know [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 24th, 2007
There is beginning to be a bit of a buzz about Ubuntu. The better it gets, the buzz as well as the product, the less likely it is that Microsoft will persuade Windows XP users to move to Vista. Vista is expensive, complex and unreliable and there are too many versions of it. And Office [...]
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