Marketing Mush
Blog I was a little dismayed to see that they think the best way to use Windows (any version back to and including XP) is to have the system come up from "sleep" mode. I was also dismayed that most of the discussion seemed to be centered on Vista and...
[October 17, 2008, 3:51]
How Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 A Success
News The Windows development team has to find a way to streamline Windows 7 so that it's faster and more stable than both XP and Vista, whether it's running on netbooks and nettops with the Atom processor and only 1GB of RAM, or tomorrow's eight-core...
[October 28, 2008, 12:03]
Windows 7 On The Apricot Netbook
Blog I haven't tried sticking Vista on the Apricot PicoBook Pro - I'm fairly confident it would be a disaster - but Windows 7 actually seems to work on the bloody thing! Anyway, the last thing I wrote about the Apricot netbook was that it was no longer...
[November 19, 2008, 10:31]
IDF - More To Come
Blog Meanwhile, just a quickie: you may recall a prediction that Microsoft's mis-steps over Vista, XP and the suddenly fashionable low-end portable PC market would lead to the company giving off contradictory signals about Windows 7 all over the place...
[April 7, 2008, 10:06]
Microsoft Replaces OneCare With Free Product
News Windows Live OneCare will continue to be sold for Windows XP and Vista via retailers until 30 June, 2009, and direct sales will be gradually phased out as Morro becomes available. Morro, which will be available for download over the internet, will...
[November 19, 2008, 7:35]
Vista 'really Good, Really' Says MS. 'Like We Care?' Says World
Blog Comment It doesn't do anything of significance that XP can't do; it doesn't support any device or technology that XP doesn't support; there isn't any "killer" Vista-only app that everyone thinks they must have.
[July 9, 2008, 9:33]
On Safari With Steve Jobs At WWDC
Blog Most of the keynote was spent unveiling new features coming with Leopard in the autumn - good features, fun features, even (if you compare them with Vista) great features, but you had to be prepared to stifle the still small voice going "oh, more...
[June 11, 2007, 22:26]
Microsoft's Mojave Just A Desert Vista
Blog To some extent, that's because once you've got people on a stable system they understand you leave them there - I'm not going to get my XP'd parents onto Ubuntu either - but it's an indication of how little Microsoft understands the market it...
[August 11, 2008, 8:56]
Forget Vista--here Comes Vienna
Blog While Microsoft says most people are pleased with Vista, I've heard and seen reports of users sticking to XP while they work out what to do. Current version Vista ran into so many delays and shifts in direction that it took more than five years to...
[July 23, 2007, 12:54]
Windows Vista Beta 1: Screenshot Gallery
Talkback Same old same old :-( Looks like Windows XP with some of the features of KDE, Gnome and Mac OS X thrown in on top. The sorting of control panel items into groups, erm, doesn't XP do that? I know I can choose photo's as a background for XP (I don't...
[August 22, 2005, 7:19]
