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Some People (& Companies) Never Seem To Learn

There is a time honored statement that “Those who don’t learn from history, are condemned to repeat it.”  Some people must have never heard that, or taken it to heart.
The people who write the Open Office software are generally  smart people, and do what it needed to make their product better, and leave things that [...]

Is The U.S. Self Importance Clouding Our Judgement of Software?

In a piece about the market share of Ubuntu outside the United States, Christopher Dawson writes about the innovation that is going on using Linux outside our borders. Since his pieces tend to highlight education, I sometimes discount what he says as being from a too narrow viewpoint, but after reflection, and some other digging, [...]

Video Drivers Are All that Is Holding Linux Back (Maybe Windows 7, Too)

The title statement is one that became immediately clear with the unsuccessful installation of Windows 7 Release Candidate on a machine of mine that has perfectly serviceable video with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and many versions of Linux, but no support from either ATi/AMD (onboard graphics) or nVidia (PCI Express card) for Windows 7.
These same [...]

Vista – Growing Pains After All This Time

Scott Fulton, in an article on Betanews, talks about the amount of problems experienced by professionals at the recent WinHEC in Los Angeles. WinHEC, by the way, stands for Windows Hardware Engineering Conference – the place that hardware meets Windows, if you will.
This is the last place that problems should be encountered, as the [...]

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