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World famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld has reportedly cut a deal with Microsoft to help tell the world about the benefits of switching to Windows Vista (”Ultimate”).
The Wall Street Journal reports that Seinfeld will be paid around $10 million to star in a bunch of clever advertisements with charismatic chairman Bill Gates.
The funnyman will be armed [...]

I’ve written a series of blog entries on this site documenting my frustrations with Ubuntu Linux on the desktop. In return for my efforts, I’ve been labeled a Microsoft shill or “fan boi”, an evil capitalist, and an obvious Linux hater who feels the need to antagonise Ubuntu users. Only one of those four labels [...]

There’s a reason why Linux usage will always be confined to a tiny minority of computer geeks. It has nothing to do with hardware companies, lack of driver support, nor the command line.  And nobody should be pointing an accusing finger at the aggressive licensing strategies employed by Microsoft.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spells out the [...]

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has unveiled a canny plan to finally drive mass-adoption of the user-unfriendly and geeky Linux operating system on the desktop.
Shuttleworth had the following comments to make at O’ Reilly’s OSCON conference this week:
“I think the great task in front of us in the next two years is to lift the experience [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says his company has drawn a line in the sand and is done trying to do a deal to acquire Yahoo! any time soon. And he also believes the future fight to own the search and online advertising business is a two-horse race that Yahoo! does not figure in.
“It didn’t work [...]

One of the very few things I do miss about living in Linux is escaping a world full of viruses, malware and spyware that keeps on infesting machines running on all versions of Microsoft Windows.
After running Ubuntu Linux on my primary machine for a year, I came to take for granted the fact that I [...]

I can’t think of a better example to demonstrate how Ubuntu/Linux is still stuck in the 80’s/early 90’s in terms of computing than by putting forward the flawed implementation of audio in the Open Source Operating System.
Through the rapid rise of broadband and faster home connections, video and audio increasingly plays a role in how [...]

Mozilla’s download day has already turned into one impressive record breaker for the Open Source community.
Global servers for Mozilla.com crashed simultaneously three minutes before the official launch of Firefox 3 this morning, preventing angry users from gaining access to the latest version of the popular web browser. I’m awaiting official confirmation whether so many servers have [...]

If I could offer one piece of advice to Canonical and the rest of the development community behind Ubuntu Linux, my message would be plain and simple: don’t let anyone dual boot your OS with Windows Vista.
As I have discussed previously, I lived in a world of Ubuntu Linux for one full year up until [...]

In this article I’m going to attempt to justify my previous assertions that running Ubuntu (or any breed of Linux) on a home computer is a dumb choice.
My last article on Ubuntu desktop hell provoked quite a reaction from a strong army of open source enthusiasts who run around the web telling anyone who will [...]