“Vista: Windows ME’s Successor”
Another Windows Vista love note. Wake up, Microsoft!
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A Week of Vista-Bashing
DRM troubles are driving people — including formerly-loyal Microsoft ex-employees — to Linux. A major European think-tank is recommending “naked PCs” (PCs sold without an operating system) to foster competition and bring down prices. Microsoft has been forced by consumer pressure to keep selling Windows XP for an extra half-year. And even a CNET technology …
“Running the numbers on Vista”
Interesting… according to this article, not only is Vista not selling well, but there has been a huge jump in sales of Office for Mac, which he’s suggesting indicates that a large number of people are switching to the Mac. I’ve said it before: Windows Vista is the best thing that ever happened for Linux …
“Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux?”
Microsoft has apparently ticked off a lot of people in their attempt to force everyone to switch to Vista, besides me.
The Popularity of Windows Vista
I’m apparently not the only one that feels like he’s being railroaded into using Vista, and is looking for alternatives.
“State of Decay”
I generally find Verity Stob pretty over-the-top, but she didn’t have to exaggerate this one much, if at all. It’s an old one, but it had me smiling and nodding because I’ve seen more than my fair share of Windows machines with nearly every one of the symptoms she mentions. Far too often they’ve been …
“Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: free OS that Just Works”
I started using Ubuntu three years ago, pushed to it by the advent of Windows Vista and Microsoft’s stated intention to force all Windows users to it. It was quite an effort to switch at that point, but it was a lot easier than it had been even a year earlier. And with every new …
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“Apple kills ‘Get a Mac’ ad campaign”
Why? Probably because Microsoft is rapidly fading into an irrelevant computing has-been, and Windows 7 is good enough that most people no longer feel the urge to abandon the Windows ship.
“Microsoft shops to fly Win 7 minus SP safety ‘shoot”
Or, to translate from the very British terminology: companies using Windows are planning to upgrade to Windows 7 before the first service pack. Of course, that’s hardly news to us in the hard-core tech-geek community, because we see Windows 7 as nothing more than a large (and very much needed) service pack for Windows Vista …
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OpenIPv6
Looks like Microsoft is going to save the world, yet again. Yes, I’m cynical about anything Microsoft does that supposedly benefits anyone else. They didn’t get where they are through altruism. But a closer look shows that that cynicism might not be justified here. It is a real improvement to their product, and a valid …