Sexy Jihad

To start the new year properly here’s a nice review that compares Windows Vista to OS X:
I could keep bringing up examples, but I think you get the idea. At the UI level, the human level, Vista is different far more often than it is better. Even so, I think it must be said that […]

The BBC has an article on the problems Microsoft is facing getting its new console released on time. My favourite piece:
By making sure its new Xbox 360 is out months ahead of Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft is hoping to win over the wallets and thumbs of gamers.
The downside has been a rush to get the […]

An interesting piece on Informationweek points out that Google is now where Microsoft was 20 years ago:
According to “The Google Legacy,’’ history is about to repeat itself. Microsoft today is where IBM was years ago. And Google is in a position to do to Bill Gates what he did to IBM. The result could be […]

Betanews reports of a promotional video made with Bill Gate & Napoleon Dynamite:
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has long used spoof videos to break the ice before his keynotes, and PDC 2005 was no exception. In ‘Bill Gates Goes to College’ the richest man in the world joins Napoleon Dynamite to fix computers at his uncle’s […]

Bi-tech.net has written a piece on confirmed minimum hardware specs for Windows Vista. It comes down to the following:
Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors. This means the entire display model in Vista has changed. To render the screen in the […]

Microsoft has barred one of its ex executives from working at Google, so says C|Net:
A judge has temporarily barred a former Microsoft executive hired by Google from performing any duties at the search giant similar to those he performed at Microsoft.
Washington state Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez on Thursday granted Microsoft’s request for a […]

IBM Developerworks has an interesting article on the differences between IE and Mozilla, and things you should take note of when porting/creating web apps:
Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. […]

OSNews has an interesting opinion piece on the current state of the operating system “scene” and how it’s difficult for alternative OSes (read: Not Linux, OSX or Windows) to gain a foothold:
There are many ‘really alternative’ operating systems currently in existence. Most of them are purely for research, personal enjoyment or as a coding sandbox. […]

Good Morning Silicon Valley has done an interview with Linus Torvalds on what he thinks of Microsoft and where he thinks it’s going:
Microsoft really is a fairly interesting vendor in this space. Unlike most proprietary vendors, it’s one of the very few ones whose bread and butter comes directly from its commodity market, and even […]

Bram Cohen (Bittorrent creator) has written a piece on his blog in which he publishes his thoughts to Microsofts supposed bittorrent replacement, Avalanche. As you can probably guess, he’s less than enthousiastic:
One thing badly missing from this paper is back-of-the-envelope calculations about all of the work necessary to implement error correction. Potential problems are on […]