Recent Posts Tagged With 'Microsoft'

• Official Windows 7 upgrade chart is ridiculous

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 16:29 in vista, windows, gadget, Microsoft, windows vista, xp, windowsvista, windows xp, upgrade, windows 7, windowsxp, windows7

  This is seriously Microsoft's Windows 7 upgrade chart, and it's ridiculous. It manages to climax the insanity of shipping various OS versions while totally minimizing the good news: most Vista users will be able to upgrade in place to the correspond...

• Microsoft's Urgent Patch Precedes Black Hat Session

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 16:45 in Microsoft, patch, nerd, researchers, the patch, activex, supposedly, that the, killbit, patch was

  Julie188 writes "Mystery solved! Microsoft's latest compulsion out-of-band patch was weird beyond belief. A notice was sent to journalists and researchers late Friday evening that the patch was coming Tuesday, but Microsoft refused to explain the fla...

• The Downsides to Digital Distribution

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 16:45 in Microsoft, downloads, media, xbox live, console, consumers, control, nerd, wal mart, publishers, control over, through xbox

  The gaming industry's ongoing shift from fleshly media to direct downloads has made buying new titles much more convenient, and in some cases cheaper. However, as this article in The Escapist notes, there are downsides as well, such as an increased d...

• Ray Ozzie Calls Google Wave "Anti-Web"

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 07:45 in google, Microsoft, publishing, classic, open source, source, Company, nerd, houghton mifflin, complex, harcourt, ozzie

  TropicalCoder writes "Ray Ozzie says that Google Wave is 'anti-Web,' by which he seems to mean that it is too complex for its own good. In the video he complains about its 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mi...