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Phony fixes will automatically install in test of Windows Update
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| Microsoft plans to test Windows 7's update mechanism by feeding users of the
| just-issued Release Candidate as many as 10 fake updates in the coming week,
| the company said Friday.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9132778&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top
PJ: "!? Whose computer is it, anyway? If they want to use my equipment to test
their software, I think they might want to ask me and then pay me."
Recent:
Windows 7: Oops! Microsoft did it again!
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| My initial evaluation of Windows 7 shows that it's really just Vista with a
| fresh coat of paint
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2008/10/windows_7_oops.html
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.
|
| [...]
|
| Midori for Linux?
|
| 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
Windows 7: R.I.P.
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| Death throes. That’s how I’d describe the latest barrage of white papers from
| Microsoft. The company’s flagship, Windows Vista, is thrashing around in the
| shallows like a wounded animal, fighting in vain to escape the inevitable.
|
| [...]
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| Now we learn that there’s no point in waiting for Windows 7 because,
| according to Microsoft, “it’ll be just like Vista.”
|
| Talk about eating your young! Microsoft is now publicly trashing their next
| version in order to salvage their current dud. Never mind that they’re
| killing the very positive mystique surrounding Windows 7. Company executives
| are hell bent on proving that the Vista “Refuseniks” were wrong, and they’re
| not above using force to achieve their goal.
|
| That’s right, hidden within their latest propaganda piece is the not so
| veiled threat that customers who bypass Vista risk widening the very
| compatibility chasm that dissuaded them in the first place. That’s because
| Microsoft has no intention of making it any easier for customers to upgrade
| to Windows 7 from XP than it is for them to upgrade from XP to Vista today.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2008/06/windows_7_rip.html
CIOs Uncensored: For The Sake Of IT, Leave XP Alone
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| I just finished a presentation to a group of nontechnical executives, and I'm
| even more angry about Microsoft's plan to end shipments of Windows XP this
| summer. I'd been making my list of reasons Microsoft shouldn't get rid of XP.
| Now I've got one more biggie--it's going to set back the hard-earned progress
| CIOs have been making in getting IT viewed as a strategic part of their
| organizations.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208402425
http://tinyurl.com/57t2st
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