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Worst Windows flaws of the past decade
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| June 25, 1998, and June 30, 2008, marked two important milestones in
| Microsoft's evolution of the Windows OS -- the passing of the torch from
| Windows 95 to Windows 98, and the less seemly transition from XP to Vista.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/06/41FE-windows-flaws_1.html
Recent:
Microsoft Is Giving Up on Windows
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| It's true: Microsoft has confirmed that it's abandoning Windows as we know
| it. Cagey as ever, the Microsofties won't say when it'll happen, but they
| have talked a little bit about what the next OS is going to look like--or not
| look like.
|
| [...]
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| Midori for Linux?
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| One of my smarter-than-me buddies, Gary F., told me that Linus Torvalds
| worked on something called Midori a few years ago, an embedded Linux for
| mobile devices: "I doubt Microsoft would ever release something that could be
| traced back to Linux, but if I recall correctly, Transmeta's Midori had some
| rudimentary 'cloud computing' features vaguely similar to Microsoft's
| Midori." Read "Details emerge on Transmeta's "Mobile Linux" and "Transmeta
| Exports Midori Linux to China" for details.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/149709/microsoft_is_giving_up_on_windows.html
Vista R.I.P.
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| Vista is awful. Everyone knows it, including Microsoft, and now
| Microsoft's actions have made it clear that Vista is on its way to the
| Microsoft junkyard with such similar failures as Windows ME and
| Microsoft Bob....
|
| Microsoft won't sell XP Pro to you, the end-user, but it will sell it
| to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and system builders. They,
| in turn, will sell you systems with XP. The deal is, if you buy a PC
| "with" Windows Vista Ultimate and Business editions, you can have it
| 'downgraded' to XP Pro until July 31, 2009....
|
| Microsoft has been telling us for months that even they thought Vista
| was heading for the trash. Back in April, Steve Ballmer himself told
| Microsoft's MVPs that Vista was "a work in progress" and needed
| improvements in system performance, software and hardware
| compatibility and battery life. Wow, Vista is a work in progress after
| having shipped for over a year and after more than five-years of
| development. Boy, that's the kind of operating system I want to spend
| my money on. Oh yeah. You betcha.
|
| Why not, instead of waiting for 7, which may or may not be any good,
| try desktop Linux or Mac OS X? After all, they're actually available
| today and works as advertised unlike, oh, say, Vista.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/vista_r_i_p
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