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As many of you know, I also write computer articles for a newspaper in California. This morning I received this message from a reader in response to an article I had done about upgrading to Windows Vista. After reading the email, I thought this would be something I could share with my readers here at [...]

I’ve been using Microsoft Windows before it was even a Window :-). But I can’t recall any operating system that has received such a negative reception as Vista has gotten. Yes. There have been problems when other operating systems were first introduced. Yes. We struggled with patches and fixes before getting things right. But I [...]

From a company in the UK comes a laptop system named Elonex that appears to be a possible alternative to the OLPC laptop, The laptop prices at about $195 US offers similar performance as the OLPC does and offers a Linux operating system as well. On their site the Elonex laptop is described as:
The vision [...]

Microsoft’s scheme using the Vista Capable label, which seems to have misinformed some customers into believing the PC they purchased would run Vista, brings up the issue why there is even a Vista Basic. Was the purpose of Vista Basic without Aero and Flip, an effort to deceive, or was it [...]

Enthusiasm for the ‘Keep Windows XP’ petition over at Infoworld has only garnered about 75,000 signatures. Seems that people are either liking Vista or don’t care which operating system they use. Or could it be something something else?
Yesterday I wrote about Torvalds take on Linux and why people are not flocking to that OS. The [...]

Here is another one of those WHY questions. The Apple folks are running a commercial on TV with the PC guy and Mac guy at it again. But this time it relates to an alleged fact that Vista runs faster on a Mac. Naturally the PC guy denies this fact and does try to [...]