I really was looking forward to buying a umpc but I am no longer sure. The lack of keyboard and relatively high price on the first models is not very appealing. There are full featured notebooks for around $850, the first umpc will be slightly more.
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 […]
I have not been covering security much. But I ran into this Internet Explorer security issue on www.spyber.com. It turns out that that you can read the Clipboard from javascript. You could some pretty nasty stuff with it.
Sorry only browser with Iframe support
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The Windows Live Beta is dead on arrival. The page is painfully slow with Internet Explorer and does not seem to load with Firefox. If Microsoft wants to compete with Google even their betas have to reach minimum levels of quality control.
I have had a few requests on how to switch from Google Maps to MSN Virtual Earth. I am not migrating, I just made a Virtual Earth version too.
And I do not see any reasons to migrate if you already have a working Google Map application. I created a page on my site with […]
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?
Microsoft is working on a replacement for Hotmail called Mail Beta according to Epic Empire.
Mail Beta will feature a slick interface and offer 2 GB of space. Just like that other Mail service.
Microsoft seems not have changed their ways of using FUD to squash all kinds of new technology that they do not have control over.
When xml-rpc started to catch on, they invented soap which is more more complex and forced developers to choose directions which in turn led to slower development. For instance eBay, which […]