Microsoft Midori: Micro Cloud At Home?
SDTimes is running a story about details of a new operating system being developed at Microsoft called Midori. It is supposedly based on Microsoft’s Singularity operating system built entirely on managed code ala .Net. This could be Microsoft’s first non-Windows commercial OS since DOS. If SDTimes’ details are right it may be the first OS to support one of the features I have been pining for for many years: cloud computing within the home. Read more
Microsoft: Open Update For All
I recently had an issue updating Google Gears to be compatible with Firefox 3.0.1. The Firefox updater didn’t find any updates and if I installed Gears again it was still at the same incompatible version. It was only after I uninstalled it and installed it again that it finally worked. This made me realize something, updating software on your computer should be a lot easier than it is right now and Microsoft should be the one to do it.
Take Off Your Beer-Goggles: Windows XP Wasn’t A Blockbuster!
I recently came across an article by The Economist where they mentioned how “embarrassing” it is for Microsoft that Intel will “continue to use Windows XP on the tens of thousands of PCs it has scattered around its offices, rather than upgrade them to Vista” and that “Vista is never going to be a blockbuster like XP”. (emphasis added)
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard mostly false statements like this, but I expected more from The Economist. This isn’t going to be a post about why you should or should not upgrade to Vista though, it is about the truth surrounding XP’s adoption. The facts after the jump. Read more
Does It Matter If $1 Of Piracy = $5.50 In “Lost Opportunities”?
Ars is running a story on a new report by IDC (that was funded by Microsoft) that states/shows that $1 of piracy = $5.50 in “lost opportunities”. Cheng argues that just because “every single dollar that…has been ‘lost’ to copyright infringement [can’t] be turned around into a dollar worth of sales” that we should “take this report with about $5.50 of salt.” Should it really matter if each dollar of piracy would actually be a dollar of sales though?
Oh, The Good Ole Days…
I don’t know how many of you caught this but yesterday Microsoft announced that Windows 3.11 reached its end-of life. The first comment I saw about it said this “I never heard of a trojan or virus affecting 3.11. Heck even DOS today would be fine by me.” Was the grass really greener back then though?
A Proprietary Web? Blame the W3C
A recent post of mine about Firefox and my general view of corporations and organizations caused a bit of a stir. It even caught the attention of Asa Dotzler, a prominent Mozilla employee. In Mr. Dotzler’s rebuff of my post he said something that has really bothered me. He said “It’s really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they’re actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight.” But are they really subverting it? Where exactly is the line between serving the consumer and subverting the web?
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