Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Chutzpah: n. (Slang) — 1892, from Yiddish khutspe “impudence, gall” from Heb. hutspah. The classic definition is that given by Leo Rosten: “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.”
You would be hard-pressed to find a corporation that [more...]
Tags: Consumer Info, Dubious, Ethics, Internet, Law, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Rights, Security, Tech Support, Windows
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
You know those ubiquitous TV commercials for Windows 7?
The ones that feature “regular people” claiming that Windows 7 was their idea?
Well, if Microsoft would actually ask some real “regular people” what they want, they might find out that most people don’t really care about [more...]
Tags: Consumer Info, Funny, Microsoft, Video, Windows
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
With everything that we’ve learned over the years about its never-ending list of serious security vulnerabilities, I find it really hard to believe that anyone would choose to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser any more.
Personally, I switched to Mozilla’s much-more-secure, free and open-source Firefox browser — first in Windows, and then in Linux — on the [more...]
Tags: Bugs, Coding, Consumer Info, Cybercrime, Freedom, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Security, Software, Windows
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve enjoyed the freedom, power and security of using Linux full-time instead of Windows since July of 2006.
And that I’ve been happily using Debian Linux since December of 2007.
Specifically, I use the Debian “Squeeze” (Testing) branch with the [more...]
Tags: Debian, Freedom, Linux, Microsoft, Personal, Security, Tech Support, Windows
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
As the year — and the decade, depending on when you think it started — draws to a close, it seems like everybody’s churning out lists of what they think were the best and worst things of the year, decade, lifetime, etc.
Here are a couple of the latest ones: [more...]
Tags: Consumer Info, Dubious, Entertainment, Google, Hardware, History, Images, Internet, Microsoft, Software, Technology, Video, Web Development
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Every once in awhile, someone asks me for help, but I can’t really help them.
A perfect example of it happened this morning.
A woman I know logged in to the State of Florida’s [more...]
Tags: Dubious, Florida, Friends, Internet, Microsoft, Personal, Tech Support, Web Development, Windows, Work
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
After all of the advertising hype.
It’s really all about money.
Their job is to figure out ways to turn [more...]
Tags: Consumer Info, Images, Microsoft, Review, Windows
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Today, Microsoft Windows 7 is officially released to the public.
The Windows Secrets Newsletter has a whole bunch of reasons why you should switch to Windows 7. [more...]
Tags: Consumer Info, Freedom, Linux, Microsoft, Tech Support, Windows
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Regular readers of this Journal know that I don’t have much good to say about “cloud computing.”
At the top of the list of other criticisms that I’ve described here in the past, I see cloud computing as a [more...]
Tags: Consumer Info, Dubious, Internet, Microsoft, Security
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
It’s not Microsoft’s first effort at releasing a Windows security application, but it may be the company’s best effort so far.
Or it may be a useless piece of junk that’s going to put users at risk by [more...]
Tags: Consumer Info, Linux, Microsoft, Security, Software, Tech Support, Windows
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