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It’s the fault of the testers..

Own up now please. Were you a Vista tester? If so, why didn’t you tell Microsoft about the problems? Forgotten what they were already? UAC.. you ask nicely and are still told ‘NO’.. DRM.. Listen to music? On your own MP3 player? Hahahahaha Calculating...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 19:32 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, Political, Windows 7
Browser Ballots

The EU Commission appears to have coerced Microsoft into including a ‘browser ballot’ in the upcoming release of Windows 7E. Why do EU residents get to have all of the fun? Time for some fun of my own.. The ballot: Firefox – the top page hit will always...

Published Wed, Jul 29 2009 12:16 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Political, General, Browsers
Cloud security..

You can fall through them, fly through them, and even walk through them in certain circumstances. Clouds offer little or no resistance. Will cyber clouds be any different? Presently, we have some privacy in what we do on our computers. We can restrict...

Published Tue, Jun 30 2009 16:00 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Political, Security
Windows 7 E..

The Euro version of Windows 7. There is no upgrade path because there is no equivalent version of Vista, but Europeans will get it at an upgrade price which is good for them. So, you install an operating system cleanly onto a hard drive. Now what? No...

Published Fri, Jun 26 2009 12:00 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Political, Windows 7
PC – Personal Computer or Politically Correct?

Back when.. DOS The choices were: DR-DOS MS-DOS And the winner was… MS-DOS . DR-DOS was probably better, but Digital Research didn’t respond to IBM, and Microsoft did. IBM supplied their own version of MS-DOS only on their own computers. Why didn’t Digital...

Published Sat, Jun 20 2009 15:28 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Political, General
Anti-trust?

I am still officially a British Citizen, I hold a British/EU passport, and I don’t intend to let it go anytime soon. However, there are some things which happen in the UK and Europe which really make me cringe. The latest is the response by the EU to...

Published Wed, Jun 17 2009 14:43 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows, Political
Piracy - the beginning of the end?

This is just the start. Maybe if enough civilized countries do this, there will be enough bandwidth left to be able to set up RSS news feeds and Internet radio station listening again.. "French pirates face net cut-off Sarkozy: "A decisive moment...

Published Mon, Nov 3 2008 10:15 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Political, General
Mosaic changed your life..

.. even if you were not a computer user back in 1993/4. It was the first browser to incorporate pictures into a browser view. The picture above shows the 'Windows' version which did not come available until 1994, being released for the Mac and...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2008 11:44 by Mike Hall

Filed under: IE7, networks, Political, General
Vista Capable?

A judge has ok'ed the class action lawsuit against Microsoft regarding the 'marketing' stickers applied to the front of XP machines in the months leading up to the release of Vista. We hear that some 'big noises' within the Microsoft...

Published Sun, Feb 24 2008 14:05 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, Hardware, general tip, Windows, Political

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