Windows 7

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 [...]

The newest revision of Auslogics Disk Defragmentation utility is gaining functionality that once was the domain of paid programs. Where it once only defragmented files, it now defragments files, consolidates space, and will move system files to the beginning of the drive – essentially most of what Diskeeper revision 6 did a few years back.
For [...]

Something not reported in the usual places, this week Microsoft lost a suit in China over the fonts used in Chinese copies of Windows from Windows 98 to present.
Coming right at the launch of Windows 7 this has to really hurt early adoption there.
The news of this comes by way of the ITWire, which tells [...]

With the recent announcement of Google Chrome OS, many are wondering what Microsoft should do about it. Though doing nothing might work, it is doubtful that the greater market will see it that way.
As rough and slipshod as Chrome OS might be today, we know that the Google development cycle never stops, unlike the fitful [...]

It is one of the amazing things of this life that certain things can happen over and over, yet the outcome remains the same.
At the PDC conference Steve Ballmer was rather proud to proclaim that the NSA was in on the security architecture of Windows 7. Of course this is very good for the mainstream [...]

They’ve borrowed many other concepts from Unix, why stop now? Also putting up the word that you simply copied from possibly the most secure operating system around would give the worriers the faith to hold their worry to a minimum, and keep the conspiracy theorists away from an entirely new campaign.
On the other hand, it [...]

Robin Harris, an infrequent, but important, contributor to ZDNet put up a piece today that clarifies for many some things that I learned long ago, and make use of each time I set up a computer.
Yet, for many, I must justify my actions, and give them a quick class in things I feel they should [...]

With the ruling on the weekend, and Apple lawyers putting the final stake in rogue company Psystar’s heart, it is clear to see that you just don’t mess with the legal system put in place by the computer industry, which may be the thing that people hate most.
The article I posted concerning the dubious usage [...]

The release of Windows 7 in no small way has pushed the graphics board market ahead, when the the computer market is just now waking from the long sleep induced by the economy.
In an effort to supply a better Aero graphics experience, many users not otherwise upgrading hardware have purchased new add-in boards, and manufacturers [...]

Earlier today, I saw a small piece on Maximum PC about the OEM System Builder copies of Windows being technically illegal for home users, and also, strangely enough, system builders, to use on a PC that will be used by them.
Whenever we recommend a build list for new systems, we inevitably turn to Windows OEM [...]

It’s been with us since 2001, and still hangs on. No, it’s not the specter of Al Qaeda in the Middle East, waiting to attack, it is the activation scheme for Microsoft Windows. The activation scheme is something that makes Microsoft happy, as they mistakenly believe that they are keeping piracy down, and annoys many [...]

First, we must truly rejoice at this turn of events where Microsoft, once the company that would never admit mistakes or problems until years after their resolution, has again let the world know of a problem pointed out by a security researcher, a few days ago.
Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists [...]

I suppose I was ahead of the curve on this, and had already seen and downloaded the extra themes available for Windows 7 from companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi. (They have been available since October 22, perhaps earlier)
Although I see nothing wrong with this (it is a separate download, not a push, after all) the [...]

Many articles about the last Patch Tuesday were almost puffing about the lack of fixes for Windows 7. It did appear that Windows 7 was doing better than almost any other operating system after release.
It was not to be however, as a story in ComputerWorld reveals the flaw reported in Windows 7 the very next [...]

While many individuals are changing over to Windows 7, the folks who are in control of making the changes at the workplace still are not convinced. This time, it’s not because the IT managers don’t like Windows 7, it  is because they are not anxious to make a jump to something that is different enough [...]