Category: Windows

  • The irony of it

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    James has a post extolling the virtues of the new Nokia N95 – me, I’m sick and tired of Nokia’s lack of support for non-Windows platforms. Any Nokia you buy only has Windows apps for synchronisation and any firmware updates need to be done over a serial cable (ruling out Macs). The hilarious thing about…

  • Microsoft Ireland's error prone Tablet PC competition!

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    According to Dave Northey, Microsoft Ireland are giving away a Tablet PC – all you have to do is answer a survey before June 30th to be in with a chance of winning. The only catch is that when I tried to go to the survey page to answer the questions I received the following…

  • Jonathan Kozol Hates Microsoft!

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    Via Dave Cormier comes the absolutely scandalous story of how a small West African school was forced to reverse its decision to drop Windows in favour of free and open source software. …due to numerous recommendations forthcoming from the US Embassy, the State Department, and technology professionals involved in providing services to international schools worldwide,…

  • Windows Live Mail's exclusionary philosophy

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    Robert Scoble (of Microsoft) wrote a post the other day claiming that “Windows Live Mail (formerly Hotmail) has a philosophy?“. I’m sure they do but the philosophy they have is far different from the philosophy Scoble claims. He says: The Windows Live Mail team just got a philosophy. Companies that have pro-participant philosophies, especially in…

  • Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 to be abandoned?

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    Microsoft has announced today that Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is available for download. In the Microsoft announcement, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer development at Microsoft, said the timeline for further releases is: Windows Vista Beta 2, and then Beta 3 of IE7, release candidates, and then a final release before end of…

  • Half Life 2 on Mac

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    I see a blogger called Cabel has installed Half Life 2 (a PC game) on his Mac after he installed XP using Apple’s new Boot Camp application – he has a video up of the game playing and it seems to go quite smoothly to my untrained eye. Now the mac is a games machine…

  • Who wants to run Windows on a Mac?

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    It looks like Apple have decided to make it easy to install Windows on your Mac with their Beta release of their new Boot Camp product. You can download a public beta today and try it out if you have an Intel based Mac and are running the latest version of OS X (10.4.6). This…

  • Users are 'stupid' – Microsoft

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    I wrote a post over a year ago about how I deal with PCs which have become infected with malware (viruses/trojans/worms/rootkits, etc.): what I do, is to re-install the OS – more often recently it is XP, turn off System Restore, install XP SP2, Microsoft Anti Spyware, Spybot, Adaware, and AVG… or consider formatting the…