operating systems

Just a short one this time, but a very important principle that i’ve noted over 20 years of dealing with Microsoft and Apple.
Right now, there is an article on Ars Technica, that explains the problem some are having with the Snow Leopard upgrade. While problems are something that Apple certainly has, the method of dealing [...]

Yes, you guessed it. It’s Microsoft! Just announced on ITWire, this month’s day that you rue Patch Tuesday will be replete with a number of fixes not seen in awhile.
Already on tap are 13, most of them listed as critical, and who knows, there could be another five by the time Tuesday rolls around.
Yes, it’s [...]

Lately, the general furor and anticipation over the release to the masses of Windows 7 has had the Windows fanboys salivating, and delivering up stories of how OEMs who deliver Linux are going to stop because of high return rates. These high return rates are ostensibly because the users can’t get Linux to work as [...]

While there are always those who will dispute the need for disk defragmentation, anyone who gets the full explanation of how operating systems work with files knows that some sort of defragmentation will always be necessary (assuming we don’t all move to solid state drives).
For the Windows operating systems, fragmentation happens very quickly.  It is [...]

While everywhere we look, people are happily saying that they are ‘pleased as punch’ to be upgrading to Windows 7, either from Windows Vista or Windows XP, a new survey states that nearly half of businesses will not upgrade.
The IT people in business, by an large, remain unconvinced of he need to update, and many [...]

I’m not sure what it is that has happened, but over at ZDNet, a few things are being admitted, which just a few weeks ago, would never have seen the light of day.
First, though Microsoft has spent a (reported) $100 million on Bing, there are doubts being presented. Doubts that Microsoft can overtake Google with [...]

Even those who are going to find the move inevitable, are waiting for a while, says a new survey of IT Pros. As with every other Microsoft operating system released, the opera is not over until the fat lady sings – which means that it’s best to leave the early grief to the fanboys.
from ZDNet

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For all the reasons why I don’t like Windows 7 (which are many) I tended to forget the one thing that many will have. It has nothing to do with hating Microsoft, loving Macs, or thinking Linux (name your flavor) is cool.
This respondent to an article on ZDNet has put it very simply, without any [...]

With my own running of the Windows 7 beta, and not liking much of what I see, I started wondering to myself about keeping XP on my machines for the next few years.
Since Microsoft has stated that, in some form, Windows XP will continue to be supported until 2014, that’s another 5 years for a [...]

I recently wrote to the (hopefully) nice people at Opera, concerning a bug that has been with the browser on every machine (at least 200, conservative guess) I have ever installed it on, both my own, and customer’s machines. It is something that may or may not be a bug, but if not a bug, [...]

First, let me be the first to say that people are entitled to their own opinions, no matter how inane or illogical they might be.
That said, I am writing this about the mother of all inane articles, written by a guest on ZDNet. The person that wrote the article is Todd Hooper, who appears to [...]

From ZDNet this morning, an article that speaks of the changes that must be made to Windows 7, in order to make it palatable to the masses, lists 5 things at the top of the heap.
Jason Hiner makes the case for big changes starting with speeding up the execution of code, noting that, shutting off [...]