Sapere Aude
Tag: windows
this is just spectacularly bad. par for the course for intel who really really suck at software: moblin, meego, tizen, smart tv, the list of stillborn projects out of intel is pretty long.
Intel plans a CES coup: Android and Windows in the same computer. Dual OS could dilute Windows dominance, if Microsoft doesn’t kill it first
the semantics of Create Remote Thread are: You’re a process, I’m a different process. I call you and say “Hey! I have this bit of code. I’d really like it if you’d run this.” You’d say, “Sure,” because you’re a Windows process– you’re all hippie-like and free love.
Windows Genuine Advantage crippled Vista’s user interface. Microsoft backed down and settled on the blacked-out desktop as a compromise.
sucks when your business model is threatened by piracy.
A fancier calculator. – The Office 2007 Ribbon thing may cross over into WordPad and MS Paint.
wow. all that innovation.
Sony is finally taking on its crapware problem. For the past 2 months, I’ve been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of it. The best part of all was that this machine was absolutely, completely, unequivocally crapware-free, which meant I was able to be productive within a few minutes of unboxing.
now where is the apple hardware free of crapware like “mail.app”?
Microsoft plans to offer PC makers steep discounts on Windows XP Home Edition to encourage them to use that OS instead of Linux on ultra low-cost PCs. To be eligible, however, the PC vendors that make ULPCs must limit screen sizes and hard drives, and they cannot offer touch-screen PCs.
byebye windows margins
When Apple makes a disruptive change, it maintains compatibility back 1 version. When Microsoft makes a disruptive change, it preserves compatibility back to the beginning of (MS-DOS) time.
the windows backwards compatibility baggage, illustrated. and why mac os has a faster development velocity as a result
next time i am on windows. sweet that someone ran with the tool to make it better
Microsoft has been rebucketing its collection of Live services for months, in an attempt to explain succinctly where it is playing in the online services space.
yeah, cannibalizing yourself without admitting it creates headaches for marketing flacks.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 