Posts Tagged ‘Windows
Vista…WTF?!
I’ve kind of come around on Vista. Although it was SO VERY painful to set up and get everything installed, that was long ago, most programs are now compatible, and I’ve come to appreciate some of the subtleties of the OS. While there are some pieces that are just the pinnacle of stupidity (like the [...]
Why Windows 7 Won’t Turn Microsoft Around
Roughly Drafted has an incredible article about why Windows 7 won’t turn Microsoft around. It’s totally accurate: Microsoft is missing the boat over and over and over again. If I were in charge of Microsoft, here’s what I’d do:
I’d immediately begin a very public plan to phase out Trident and replace it with Webkit over [...]
Vista: A Year Later
I’ve been running Windows Vista at work for about a year now. I’ve blogged about Windows Vista before, and I’ve been mostly let down by it. But I’m here to confess today that Vista has overtaken XP for me. Yep, it’s true. I kinda dig Vista.
If you perouse the internet, you’ll see – [...]
Release Tuesday
This week has already seen a slew of releases: first came an updated Airport Express (I want one). Then today, Apple unleased Safari 3.1, which vastly extends support for bleeding edge web standards like CSS3, HTML5, and expands support of ECMAscript.
Finally, not to have all headlines stolen this St. Patrick’s Day, Microsoft [...]
The Pain of Vista
Yesterday, I began building my new work laptop. It’s a Dell XPS M1530, a nice 15″ widescreen screamer with a dual core Centrino, 2GB RAM, a 256MB video card, embedded Bluetooth, 802.11n, and, for the first time in my company, Windows Vista.
It’s typical for me to buy/install new software for testing on [...]
Windows Registry Adventure
“Don’t screw around with the Windows registry.”
That’s something I’ve told both users, helpdesk techs, and even IT managers for nearly a decade. “If you change something in the registry you don’t understand, you can render your system unbootable.” And yet, over the last 10 years, I’ve had my fingers pretty deep in the [...]
The Flop That is Windows Vista
Thom posted an article on OSNews.com yesterday called Vista’s Mythical Cut Features. It got me thinking; I left a few comments on the article that really hit the heart of the matter, but Thom’s responses, and those of others, questioned whether or not the things I mentioned were cut features or not.
Longhorn, [...]
Two Incredible Videos
First, the most incredible winter driving video I’ve ever seen. If you’ve ever driven in ice, you know that sometimes, when the road is just wrong, you are literally helpless to do much more than brace yourself for a semi-controlled spin. This road must’ve been completely iced over. Whatever this case, you [...]
Vista: To Get or Not To Get
Thom posted a series of articles on OSNews about Windows Vista, first 10 Reasons Not to Get Vista, then a rebuttal on his own blog, then another and another and another. Seriously. But none mentions the main reason I don’t want Vista: because I’m just not interested in supporting Microsoft any longer. [...]
Did I Call This or What??
You might suggest that I was writing about something that isn’t a very far fetched suggestion, but I think I was writing about something I had not seen suggested elsewhere ever when I said that Apple should release Safari for Windows. And then today, Mary Jo Foley, former Microsoft Watch columnist, suggests that the [...]
