Does Windows have a viable future?
Microsoft have enjoyed a long stretch as dominant market-share holder in the desktop market; but now they face stiff competition from two sides: OSX and Linux. Can they maintain their strong position?
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7 things Windows 7 has to do to win me back
As I keep harking on, I moved to Linux. I’m happy and things are getting a lot more routine for me. I’ve been seeing a lot of fake screenshots this week for Windows 7 and it made me think what I would need from the next version of Windows to migrate back.
This Operatic madness must not succeed
It’s an Opera of gigantic proportions with the company behind the, err, Opera browser whinging to the European Commission that Microsoft shouldn’t be allowed to include their browser IE with Windows.
Will Windows 7 be another driver disaster?
As Linux and OSX toddle on, catering for every hardware device under the sun, Windows 7 looks like it’s going to have a complete refresh of drivers, effectively taking it back to square 1 in the game of hardware support.
3 moments in Vista that make me consider Linux
While I definitely think some elements of Vista are definite improvements, 10 months of experience has shown me there are some things that just annoy me to my very core. Here are the three things that most make me wish I had the strength to move over to Linux — full time.
MPEGs cause Vista’s Explorer to crash
Video: watch a simple download crash explorer over and over again. This really reminds me how feeble the underlying systems are in Windows.
I’m a Windows enthusiast
Note from future: This probably won’t come back to haunt me.
Reason 172: Solitaire
Everybody and their brother seems to want to give you a reason not to upgrade to Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista.
Disabling Explorer Tooltips
Explorer’s tooltips can be useful but for some people they can be a royal pain in the arse.
The People vs IE7
Today marks the day when MS decided to push IE7 as a critical update. What will happen from here is still yet to be seen although people have hesitated that it could make or break the internet.
Moving to Ubuntu - Part 1
What am I thinking? No that’s very unfair. I’ve used Ubuntu on and off (more off than on) since it was first released.
Ubuntu and Linux are NOT consumer ready
While I like the direction, there are some significant issues that stop the average user migrating
What Really Slows Windows Down
The follow up experiment testing more software with improved benchmarks. If you want to know what applications are slowing down your machine, check out this post.
What Slows Windows Down?
The first of two studies carried out in September 2006 showing what types of software and more interestingly which versions of those types make Windows XP slow down.
UK Government to make Vista EVEN worse
This week the British government in their infinite wisdom have started eyeing up the upcoming Windows Vista. More specifically, the encryption systems that are used in it.
MS Retrofitting OEM Licences
I’ve just read an article at Aviran’s Place saying Microsoft have retrofitted their OEM Windows licences with a new caveat for upgrading users
Raising the dead - Undeleting deleted files…
Have you binned five years of work by accident? How about destroyed your entire music collection?