…or how I learned to stop Microsofting and love the Linux
Well, I’ve had this thing for four days now, and I’ve finally gotten it set up the way I wanted it. The first thing I wanted to do was replace the Xandros Linux on it with Ubuntu, both because I wanted the same set of programs available to me as on my larger systems, and …
I’d like to be the first to congratulate my friend Ploni Almoni (on the Recyclosphere blog) on his new Mac Mini. Have fun with it, Ploni!
I had been trying to get a look at one of these for months, but no place around here seemed to carry them. I wasn’t too concerned, because I’d planned to wait for a later version of it before I took the plunge. Ah well, “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry…” …
Surprise, surprise. 🙂
Microsoft finally woke up and realized that people aren’t going to pay their usual rate for OEM copies of Windows when the PC itself is under $200, so they’ve decided to allow those computers to run Windows XP — the previous (and in many peoples’ opinion, better) version of Windows — instead of ceding the …
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Bill Gates’ Microsoft, long hated by the technorati for its aggressive pushing of inferior technologies, its arrogant attitude toward the standards used by the rest of the industry, the secrecy that it cloaks its own proprietary ways of doing things in (so that no one can interoperate with its products), and its paranoid and monopolistic …
Windows Vista, how do I dislike thee? The New York Times counts the ways — using Microsoft’s internal e-mails from their own staff and board members to do it.
Why am I not surprised?
The first public beta of IE8 is now available, and the big news is that MS has finally decided to fully support web standards (and it’s about time!). Why the sudden change of heart? They aren’t talking, but OSnews may have tagged it… it’s amazing what a little self-interest will do.
This quote pretty much covers it: In what can only be described as an act of utter desperation to overcome Vista’s mostly negative public perception issues, Microsoft Australia has put together an online “Fact or Fiction” quiz all about Windows Vista. Un-frickin’-believable. Squared.