Thursday, May 31, 2007

Windows' Words of Doom



This column is an homage to the Big Seven—the seven idiotic Windows glitches that make it so difficult to move files from point A to point B. Golly, all these have been fixed with Vista, right? Uh, right?







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Will the Internet Collapse?



Our favorite curmudgeon's prediction is short and sweet. But what is it?







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Microsoft and Yahoo: A Really Bad Idea



Sorry, Lance, this old idea of a Microsoft/Yahoo merger is no smarter today than it was six months ago.







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Why AMD May Be Losing Its Edge



If you're having people over to watch the big game, buy a big white screen and drag home your office projector. Why not? Everybody does it.







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My Plan To Get More From Multi Cores



Sure, OS X and Windows have been gussied up with pretty icons and lots of colors, but that's just lipstick on a pig. The difference today between the Mac and the PC is that the Mac has better lipstick.







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Can You Still Call IBM a Trendsetter?



People are always looking for the be-all-end-all super-perfect Linux. It will never happen until Microsoft does Linux. Oops. Did I say that?







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Down With Dumbing Down



I often wonder whether this head-in-the-sand attitude about computers and technology is the reason newspapers are in decline. The world is passing them by.







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Rupert Murdoch "Gets" New Media



Not only is he the only media mogul who does, he seems to be ahead of most of the experts, too.







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