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 [...]
First we had Mr. Ballmer stand up, at a public gathering, and take the blame for the blight called Vista. Now another mistake is being admitted, in the same year. This is really good news for the users, because next we might be able to look forward to admissions of flaws in software before the [...]
The problems of the world continue no matter the hopes and best wishes of any business or corporate entity. That is the reason we have so many reports of the early sales of Windows 7 being up, by as much as 234%, according to some reports, yet other reports state that PC sales are down. [...]
Though Windows 7 is a very big step in bringing the operating system into the 21st century in some ways, in others it seems horrendously stuck in the past. The defragment routines included with Windows 7 don’t look, or act, so differently from those first licensed by Microsoft from Symantec (Norton disk defragger called Speeddisk) [...]
Less than a week after the official release of Windows 7, Microsoft has been quietly releasing updates for Vista, perhaps trying to affect its legacy post mortem. After all, to all but those saddled with Vista, Windows 7 was the end of a dark time, not soon to be revisited.
It may be that Microsoft believes [...]
Much to the astonishment of many, there have been very few articles giving advice on the installation of Windows 7. For each one of us that has been through the process of installing an operating system a hundred times or more, there are ten who have never done it once.
Strangely enough, the nice people at [...]
Yesterday, I was writing about the nastiness in store for just about any computer that finds itself connected to the internet. The Secunia Personal Software Inspector is a fine way to keep your installed software up to date, thereby reducing any attack vectors.
Another way that problems can arise is when something tries to manipulate your [...]
For anyone not already certain, the times are getting harder and harder for your computer. The nastiness that can be picked up is amazing, and it doesn’t take long for it to happen, with the internet to propagate it.
The problem is that it keeps getting harder and harder to keep your personal computer free of [...]
A few weeks ago I spoke about the newest version of Auslogics Disk Defragmenter , revision 2.12.50, which will allow scheduled defragmentation during periods of inactivity, as well as giving the user a very nice interface to work with.
While not near the level of sophistication that Diskeeper shows, it is excellent, easy on resources, accurate, [...]
This afternoon, Ed Bott has given us his opinion on the reason for success of Windows 7, which may be partly true, but is mostly just wishful thinking. He states that the availability of drivers, essentially the same ones that should have popped up during the early stages of Vista beta testing, will now make [...]
the easier it is to see where, and when, you have been hoodwinked. One of the sayings i grew up with (because in my family, we lived and died by truisms) was, “Figures don’t lie, but any liar can figure”.
Now, some of the worst fears of Microsoft may have been exposed. System tune up software [...]
At least that is the way it seems when the Microsoft CEO opens his mouth. At a time when things are going well for Microsoft – pre-orders of Windows 7 are running briskly, the press is, for the most part, giving big congratulations to the product, and the company has just received news that not [...]
After a short time in beta, where people were making almost magical claims of its powers, the Microsoft Security Essentials will leave the beta moniker behind tonight at midnight, and be available for download.
Since it will be free to all who have legitimate copies of Windows operating systems, I wonder how many people will be [...]
It really is amazing to see how some people will decide that the best way to get some talk going about a new product is to start a small bashing session, and then come back with all the reasons why the bashing should not be.
There is probably a name for this in the advertising world, [...]
That is the question that Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is asking this day on ZDNet. Giving figures concerning the adoption of Windows 7 in the pre-release phase, he notes that its use has already eclipsed that of the iPhone. Why he threw that in is unknown, but what is known is why the use of Windows 7 [...]
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