Mike's Window : Political

It’s the fault of the testers..

Mike Hall — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:32:09 GMT

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...(read more)

Browser Ballots

Mike Hall — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:16:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Cloud security..

Mike Hall — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:00:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows 7 E..

Mike Hall — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:18 GMT

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...(read more)

PC – Personal Computer or Politically Correct?

Mike Hall — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:28:41 GMT

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...(read more)

Anti-trust?

Mike Hall — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:43:26 GMT

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...(read more)

Piracy - the beginning of the end?

Mike Hall — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:15:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Mosaic changed your life..

Mike Hall — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:44:10 GMT

.. 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...(read more)

Vista Capable?

Mike Hall — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:05:33 GMT

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...(read more)