Engadget is reporting that it seems that Dell is preparing Apple Mac OS as an options on their computers. Could be a fake.

There are rumors that Microsoft is talking with Ebay about a possible merger. From an technology standpoint it makes sense. Ebay is a big Microsoft customer. I am not very impressed with the recent Ebay Skype merger. And I am not sure that these two giant companies will be able to prosper better together than […]

My Swedish friends have allways been overly excited about Skype. As I have previously stated, I do not like Skype for two reasons: SIP (which also is a Swedish invention…) is a standard that handles VOIP better than Skype and because one of the founders of Skype was the founder of Kazaa.
Kazaa was a crooked […]

The recent postponement of Vista has not been met with positive comments. There have been two hard hitting articles wondering if Microsoft has been starting to dig its own grave with the ever increasing Windows code base.
The New York times writes Windows Is So Slow, but why? … each new version of Windows carries the […]

Dells acquisition of Alienware was a bit surprising but not illogical. Dell will now have an high-end line (XPS), a higher-end line (specials such as the $9930 XPS Renegade) and Alienware. Dell has over the years seen the competitors merge and then vanish, they have not ever made any major acquisitions.
Alienware will loose some street […]

Oracle has bought InnoDB which is a storage plugin used in most MySQL installations. This is an obvious attempt to slow down the transition to GNU software. Both Oracle and Microsoft are very annoyed over the gains that MySQL and PostgreSQL.
However, the the acquisition will be of little effect as there are alternatives to […]

Guy nicknamed breathe, makes commercial spoof of Ipod Nano. Ends up with US $17000 bill for bandwidth after being dug by lots of people. Guy was able to negotiate bill down to $129 a month. And yes, the video is very well made.

Vice President Jim Allchin has admitted that Windows is broken. It is now so complex that not even Microsoft believes in crunching out new version every couple of years.
Getting the new file system, Winfs, to work is like getting a pig to fly according to Microsoft sources…

Can Microsoft get the pig to fly?