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Mac OS X Offers 2x Battery Life than Vista or Windows 7
I’m not a fan of Macs generally speaking, but due to recent realizations that Microsoft was never going to create an operating system that didn’t share fundamental behaviors with all past and present versions of Windows — I’ve decided to jump ship and get a computer that will “just work”. Keep in mind I don’t [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Will Never Understand Usability – Vista Device Driver Security Example
Monday, November 17, 2008
We took our first look at Microsoft’s inbility to create something genuinely useful and a minature review of Vista when we evaluated Windows Vista Backup at the beginning of the year. The premise of that article being that by evaluating a single program, and all the usability/functionality flaws it had, you got an impression of [...]
Continue reading...New Multi-Touch Windows Taskbar In Action
Saturday, July 26, 2008
My apologies, this is actually older news back from May, but we hadn’t run across it until now. It seems that the media semi-blitz required to reset people’s perspectives of Microsoft (and erase the bad name they got for Vista) are starting early… way early. Microsoft isn’t slated to release Windows 7 (Vienna?) until January 2010, [...]
Continue reading...The PC Game Market is Not Dead
Sunday, July 20, 2008
You remember that old saying “Follow the money?” whenever you wanted to find the answer to something? It still applies… For years now PC Gaming has “been dying” and giving way to consoles; the more locked down, publiser/advertiser friendly, vendor lock-in-encouraging devices that have meant to replace the 20 billion PC gamers on the planet. Yea after [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 (Vienna) Screenshots – Confirmed for 2010 Release
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
If you haven’t seen it already, supposed pictures of the Windows 7 (Vienna) interface were leaked online yesterday along with a bit of information of “what we know so far”. Possible returns of WinFS, obviously a much more enhanced candy-esque UI is going to grace us and also a confirmation that consumers will be getting [...]
Continue reading...Windows XP SP3 – FAIL
Friday, May 9, 2008
I don’t know why I didn’t think this would happen… it is Microsoft and they have proved for the last 8 years that they are absolutely incapable of releasing valuable, stable, robust and well-designed software. Rumors abound that Windows XP SP3 installs are fucking over computers world-wide, resulting in the inability to boot after the patches [...]
Continue reading...Getting Virtual / Multiple Desktops on Windows (XP and Vista)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Have you ever found yourself juggling so many extra windows at work (or at home) on your desktop that you wished you have access to multiple desktops so you could group them together and not clutter one desktop with everything? Yea, me too… Linux has had the idea of “multiple desktops” or “virtual desktops” for a [...]
Continue reading...Legit Vista Crack (OEM Emulation) Released
Monday, March 3, 2008
APC reports that a legit Vista crack has made it’s way out in the form of an OEM emulator. Apparently Microsoft does not require activation from machines with Vista on them from some OEM partners (See above screenshot) and the crack takes advantage of that. Also… for the folks reading this, “legit Vista crack” doesn’t mean [...]
Continue reading...Music Using Windows Sounds Only
Sunday, February 17, 2008
This is pretty awesome, it’s music created using simply the system sounds from a Windows install. I was surprised how cool it could still sound… like music is 80% beat and 20% actual sounds? I guess that is why Stomp is able to exist?
Continue reading...Create Customized Windows Vista ISO with vLite
Monday, January 28, 2008
For the folks that have used nLite with Windows XP and love it, stop right there… vLite is for Vista and works just as awesome. For folks that have no idea what nLite or vLite are, they are these badass programs written by Dino Nuhagic that are used to take the install files for Windows XP [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7, Extensive Detailed Revealed
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Grant Gochnauer sends in a link to the istartedsomething blog where a commenter, rumored to be an insider from Microsoft, left a comment that equates to an essay covering the development, design, features and strategy all coming in Windows 7. We’ll try and highlight the juicy parts below, but if you love this stuff, you are [...]
Continue reading...Windows Install Recovery Tips (Not a Reinstall)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Following up with our previous tip about keeping windows from “rotting”, Grant Gochnauer sends in another great tip from the ShippingSeven blog for recovering a really fuck-up Windows install without reinstalling. There are actually two tips, and they are: Try logging off, then back on instead of rebooting. Try backing up your data and then erasing [...]
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