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Hackety Hack
Downloads With a built-in browser and program writer, it takes only a few lines of code to write programs that talk to the Web and can be shared with anyone on Linux or Windows. It includes a conversational tutor that includes 7 short lessons (20 minutes...
[June 10, 2007, 2:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's not that the stuff won't run on non-Windows platforms — even Microsoft's learned that one. Meanwhile, Microsoft's efforts to become a player in the online services game stumble on, with a relaunch of MSN Spaces as Windows Live Spaces having...
[August 7, 2006, 13:40]
Do You Like Conspiracy Theories?
Blog It seems that some people are now saying that the four day world-wide Skype outage last August was not caused by Windows Update, but was in fact Skype building in a back door for government monitoring of Skype calls (source, more speculation).
[July 28, 2008, 9:36]
Lacey's Paper Round
News As Microsoft lawyers move to get the whole DoJ case thrown out of court, the basis of their defence is now clear: they will say that they were working on integrating Web browsing with Windows long before Netscape was incorporated.
[August 17, 1998, 10:40]
Strengths Of Open Source Opposing Microsoft Patent Threats
Blog At the head of one table, one places a server hardware running Windows Server 2007 prepared as a thin client server with well-known applications: MS Office, Adobe suite, Interne Explorer 7, Outlook, for example.
[June 4, 2007, 3:35]
Apple G4s Could Sleep Their Way To Success
News Most recently Intel took the normal Windows suspend facility a step further and created the "Instantly Available" feature, supported by the 810 AGP chipset. Instantly Available on small Windows machines could rival "instant-on" PDAs for market share.
[September 9, 1999, 9:55]
'Drivezilla' Has Monster 200GB Storage
News Only Windows XP's Service Pack 1 -- an update due out next month for the Microsoft operating system -- will offer built-in support for the new interface. To allow its drive to work on PCs that don't have the updated version of Windows XP, Western...
[July 30, 2002, 9:56]
WaSP Looks To Order Scripted Chaos
News Just because IE for Windows has 80 percent of the market doesn't mean it will work everywhere," said WaSP founding member Dori Smith, co-author of "JavaScript for the World Wide Web. Scripting languages like JavaScript, Microsoft's JScript and ECMA...
[July 19, 2005, 17:25]
Dell Chooses Ubuntu For Linux PCs
News I don't think this is going to be a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park home run," said IDC analyst Al Gillen, who still doesn't see a major Linux draw for most Windows PC users. Of the 160.5 million operating-system licences shipped in 2006, Windows...
[May 1, 2007, 15:44]
Kaspersky Predicts Vista Security Holes
News Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted that 90 percent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista. Although at the moment Vista appears to be more secure than previous Windows operating systems...
[December 11, 2006, 13:13]
Official MS Windows 7 Bloggers
Blog Comment I typed Windows 7 in Google and it came up on top for some reason and that's what got my interest. I've been poking around the CTP release 2 for Windows XP Embedded "Standard" for work. I usually ignore them altogether until they hit my special...
[August 17, 2008, 18:07]
'Why Linux Is Inferior To Windows And Macintosh'
Blog For the recent Flurry of Windows 7 pandemonium here at '9, the debate was centred around design and implementation of features. We can almost always expect to be surprised (anticipate derision here) by each new Windows OS, what is it that Linux has?
[January 25, 2008, 11:58]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback The cost of distributing thousands of emails is very small, made smaller by the "zombie networks" of hacked, unpatched machines (typically home Windows users who leave thier machines connected to the Internet 24/7 and have no clue about security).
[May 26, 2006, 15:22]
Microsoft's Pre-modern Message Puts A New Face On Vista
Blog Comment We've yet to see what Windows 7 is going to look like - but that may be a sawn-off Vista with a nod to the embedded/netbook market. It's a rare pleasure to write something positive about Microsoft (the telescopic pixel was one opportunity), and if...
[July 28, 2008, 12:37]
Vista 'really Good, Really' Says MS. 'Like We Care?' Says World
Blog But eighteen months after Vista appeared - and eighteen months before Windows 7 - Vista has bought a metaphoric red sports car and a new pair of tight jeans, and is getting ready to go on the pull. It doesn't actually matter now whether everything...
[July 9, 2008, 8:46]
Server Problems Beleaguer Hotmail Users
Talkback my problems were not being able to sign in to hotmail, or view my bank website, or do a windows update, or do much on ebay.this is what i did and it should work for anyone having the same problems that i was having.please be careful when doing...
[June 4, 2005, 14:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Further investigation revealed that the database is running on a Windows 95 computer with ancient laser printers that break down a lot. Only the American People can't find this stuff out, despite having that spiffy legal right to freedom of...
[July 2, 2004, 18:50]
Designers: IE 5 A Lost Opportunity
News In an ideal world, everyone wants the latest and greatest stuff," Microsoft Windows Product Manager Rob Bennett said. The Web Standards Project, a group of 7,000 Web site designers, said IE 5 doesn't go far enough in adhering to the design...
[March 19, 1999, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And no, it didn’t run Windows. Curious stuff. Wednesday 20/7/2005 It’s getting increasingly difficult to divine the fate of Itanium. There’s a steady trickle of news about it - Intel launching a new version with a faster bus, SGI producing a new...
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
Microsoft: 'No Patches For Pirates'
News Aiming to crack down on counterfeit software, Microsoft plans later this year to require customers to verify that their copy of Windows is genuine before downloading security patches and other add-ons to the operating system.
[January 26, 2005, 8:00]
