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Asus just released the Eee PC 901A in blue and the 900A in gold.   There is no other change mentioned aside from the color.
T-Mobile sold out of their entire pre-sale stock of the new Android phone.
All I have read about recently has been the T-Mobile phone.  It’s like some sort of religion, with all [...]

Colin Smith writes “TradElect, the Microsoft .Net based trading platform for the London Stock Exchange, was offline for about seven hours, meaning that their 5-nines SLAs are shot for approximately the next 100 years. The TradElect system was launched back in June of 2007 and was designed for increased speed and system capacity.”
Anybody can screw [...]

My fellow Lockergnomie, Pablo Richie, revealed today that Microsoft just signed Jerry Seinfeld as their new spokesman for Vista.
Since they’re two of my favorite targets, I could not help myself - I had to comment:
I can’t think of a better-suited match than Seinfeld and Vista.
A comic that isn’t funny pitching an OS that isn’t [...]

With apologies to Earle, who wrote earlier and really likes Vista, I had to post my second Vista experience.
Keeping in mind that no good deed ever goes unpunished, I got stuck loading Office and vpn software on a coworker’s new Dell computer.  This is the one that Dell wouldn’t let them return for one that [...]

The guy who happens to own the company that employs me asked me to take a look at his laptop.  It was not downloading mail and Outlook kept crashing.  He sent mail to Microsoft, who told him he was running an old version of Office and he needed to update.   Thanks, Microsoft, you’ve been a [...]

Nearly three weeks after security vendor Symantec released a free tool to clean up PCs crippled by the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) update, Microsoft issued a fix that should reestablish lost Internet and wireless connections.   networkworld.com]
It’s ok - take your time.   Get it right.   We’ll wait…..

don’t worry, boys… there’s room for everyone. Linux will run the mission but there’s plenty of space on Mars to stack up all those Vista boxes that won’t ever be sold…

I didn’t write this but I definitely wondered if I had forgotten I did…
The Internet has brought us many joys. It’s rewritten the rules of business and pleasure. And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time (”Let’s use it to make sure our customers have the [...]

Believe it or not, Microsoft had Vista wave a white flag yesterday, in the form of allowing XP to ship with PCs until 2010.

In the not-too-distant future, people could use computer printers to make simple medicines as part of a do-it-yourself model of healthcare, a top Microsoft executive said Friday.
sounds like someone has been sniffing way too much printer ink…..