Vista

To hear the story from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft is selling copies of Windows 7 faster than the copies can be pressed. The people are buying in droves, with adoption so high it beats all previous upgrade cycles.
After examining the previous upgrade cycles, that really is not hard to believe, as most Microsoft upgrade cycles don’t [...]

Opinions are like noses, and sometimes they all blow, so you may regard this as just another if you wish. I do think, however, that some people have an over-bloated sense of universal knowledge, i.e. knowledge of the universe.
I am referring to the blogger who started the current flap, by stating that Vista was a [...]

Not yet available to the general public and already getting updated for security and reliability, some might think that this is shows a lack of polish on the Windows 7 product. This release is the first one available through the Windows Update mechanism.
In a change from normal policy, it does seem as though Microsoft is [...]

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 [...]

There have been many ad campaigns for various Microsoft operating systems, over the years. My personal favorite is the Windows 95 ‘Start Me Up’ ads, as they featured  great music with the slice of information. Some may cite that lately Microsoft is trying to be a bit edgier and more biting with the laptop ads [...]

Those who follow Microsoft with any regularity know that the company has been doing much to rehabilitate its ‘good guy’ image, since the problems with the semi-non-proprietary Open XML format wars of a while back. It was something that put the company in a really bad light, looking like the spoiled child that wanted everyone [...]

As I was looking around, early this morning, I came upon a story on bink.nu, declaring that a version of Windows, the Professional edition of Windows 8, has been leaked from an Italian developer’s site.
The article said that the screenshots and the Rapidshare download were, of course, fakes; but how many are going ahead, and [...]

Not content to have the ribbon interface throughout Windows 7, it appears that Microsoft is doing a ‘favor’ for some of its Vista users and will backport the ribbon changes to Vista, through a download, in October.
Some will like it, some will hate it - but it will be an option, so it is not [...]

AMD seems to be trying to really please the troops these days with the releases of drivers for their video card lines. The latest Catalyst drivers are available early, in honor of QuakeCon, instead of making the faithful wait until Monday.
from Tech Connect
As promised, AMD has brought the Catalyst 9.8 drivers at QuakeCon and delivered [...]

With the advent of Windows 7, and its reduced hardware requirements, there is still a problem for many people who might otherwise be able to upgrade. There are lots of high power Pentium 4 and Athlon systems with more than enough horsepower to run Windows 7, but they lack a video card that will support [...]

Well, you can either continue to balk at the announced prices for the Windows 7 upgrade now, or wait until the family pack pricing becomes available, and get 3 copies for approximately the same price as is available now. This is for the Home Premium version, which is, apparently all most people need. I would [...]

No matter how exciting your summer might start out being, there are certainly days where nothing is scheduled, and nothing is available, it seems, for at least a great portion of the day. Perhaps it is the heat, perhaps it is because we have been doing so much, then, with the end of school, which [...]

I just finished watching Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo. This week, among others, she interviewed Kathy Ireland, former model and lust object, about her projects, entrepreneurial spirit, and her ideas about her success.
Kathy said that for her, being on Twitter allowed her constant feedback with her customers, said to be busy mothers, and [...]

John C. Dvorak, the Lone Ranger of sanity at PC Magazine once again warns of things known, but forgotten, or pushed aside by the powers that be, In a column from a couple of days ago, he warns of the possible problems encountered by those who are using Solid State Drives. The kind that are [...]

Once the world problems, like the economy of (name your country here), and the threat of nuclear war from the glorious leader of North Korea are out of the way, it allows time to settle in on the same problems that were there before the disaster.
First, it was the problems of the government of New [...]