Dawn Kawamoto has it:
Yahoo published on Monday its version of the details of the failed merger talks with Microsoft, as the Internet pioneer heads toward the frontlines of its proxy battle with investor activist Carl Icahn.
Yahoo, which wa…
Newspapers, magazines and blogs are saturated with reports about Bill Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, to the point that people may be getting tired of it. But the coverage, collectively, has resulted in a new level of insight into Gates’ personality, how he thinks, and how he ran the company. Along those lines, these were my favorite nuggets:
There is no doubt that the Windows operating system is much too bloated. Microsoft’s propensity to bundle everything under the sun with the operating system, its desire for backward compatibility, and its paranoia about piracy has led to a Vista system that even Microsoft fanboys are complaining about. The New York Times Sunday business section […]
The New York Times has an obituary of a computer pioneer who was not well-known outside of his native Britain. I certainly was unaware of the work he did in computerizing the famous British teahouse chain Lyons. Already in the 1950s (!) David Caminer set up a business computer system for Lyons. According to […]
Former Zune boss has a new pair of titles: Chief Experience Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Entertainment and Devices Division.
As Chief Experience Officer (CXO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), J Allard is responsible for the technica…
Analyst Evans Data Corporation has reported that only 8 percent of developers are targetting Windows Vista while 49 percent are still developing for Windows XP.
John Andrews, CEO & president of Evans Data, says developers are on a wait-and-see mode on Vista because of driver issues, software incompatibility and steep hardware requirements.
It’s pretty ironic since developer’s […]
June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It’s also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece) to start looking ahead to what comes next — after Windows.
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So you’re thinking, “Hey, I want to be totally irresponsible with my computer and load it up with crapware!” Really, isn’t everyone getting tired of having to be so stinking responsible on the Internet all the time? We certainly are. We’re ready for system protection that isn’t afraid of our reckless browsing, indiscriminate downloading, and general apathy towards good computer usage habits.
…Which is why we love Windows Steady State. It creates a cache file in which your operating system operates, meaning any harmful changes can be undone by simply emptying the cache. After downloading it’s a snap to install - just a few obligatory clicks and the usual EULA mumbo-jubmo and you’re set.
Our first test was pretty a pretty low-intensity workout. We surfed, bookmarked, set up a POP account and downloaded a few messages, and cluttered up the desktop with a dozen or so hilariously named folders. After issuing the old Windows - U - R we waited anxiously for the system to reboot.
There it was, just as it had been before - no trace of any of our activity. The desktop was still tidy, no favorites or emails were anywhere to be seen. So far so good, but let’s try some real abuse!
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It looks like J Allard has a new mission and new title to prove it. As of June 24, according to the Microsoft executive bio site, Allard is now “Chief Experience Officer” at Microsoft, as well as as yet another of Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officers
There have been articles about Bill Gates relinquishing control at Microsoft for so long that it seems that he has been leaving for years. I can’t begin to count how many posts and articles that I’ve seen. It got to be rather tiresome. John Dvorak puts it this way in Friday’s Market Watch:
Each and every […]