Windows Vista

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 [...]

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, in his daily entry on ZDNet has written a few ideas about why Apple has gotten the upper hand in operating systems, over the brand that comes from Redmond, Washington.
He starts out assessing the fact that, with Apple, the operating system looks the same whether you have a Mac Book (any flavor), [...]

Last week, an article came out on ZDNet, with the title ‘Why Windows 7 Won’t Suck As Much As Vista’.
Wow. That says it all.
Microsoft has shot itself in the foot, and didn’t have the good sense to see the doctor, trying to walk with a badly bleeding foot (Vista). If the company had [...]

At this point in the life of the operating system known as Windows (whatever flavor), you might think that all the basics would be worked out.
Not at Microsoft.  Code review must be something that these people think that they are somehow above. After 25 years of writing the code for a GUI operating system, most [...]

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 [...]

Somewhere between the very short life spans of certain Linux distributions, and the now very lengthy commitment  that Microsoft has given to Windows XP is a happy medium.
A discussion on ZDNet, has made many assumptions, and lays out the confirmed long life of Windows XP, right next to an article that states that, most likely, [...]

MaryJo Foley put up the notice today, that the next revision of Windows will be called 7.
Well -  isn’t that special?
After all the hoopla over Vista, it really makes no sense to go after another cutesy name, or even something lofty or poetic, for that matter.  The choice of 7 gets the point across [...]

It’s very funny how the tongues wag about some things. Several sources reported that Intel is staying with Windows XP, and along comes Ed Bott, of ZDNet, Vista’s chief apologist, with the news that Intel was this way during the transition of Windows 2000 to XP – they waited quite a while before moving to [...]

All around, there is much consternation and trepidation about the end-of-retail life of Windows XP. Like no revision before, the public wishes to hold on to the operating system they have come to love, warts and all.
Windows XP has become a darling because it works, better than anything before it, and to date, anything [...]

Everyone is eager to say that Microsoft’s newest operating system is less than ideal. The word is out…only those in remote parts of the world are unaware.
One person is willing to take on the task of putting Microsoft’s ‘feet to the fire’ by pointing out the flaws in Vista’s User Interface.
While not earth shattering, [...]