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2009: The year tech blogging died

December 22, 2009

Most years are full of idiocy. But I think I can make a decent case for this year being the worst on record, at least from the perspective of writing about technology. This was the year when tech writing plumbed new depths of stupidity, repetition, and sheer unadulterated circle jerking. It was the year when [...]

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Why the Google Phone will not be released to the public

December 12, 2009

Image via CrunchBase The hype machine is in overdrive. Google has confirmed that it has issued special Android-running “dogfood” phones to some of its employees, and every tech blog is speculating about when this will be released to the public and how it’s going to change the world. I’m willing to bet that Google will [...]

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Dumb Windows users write dumb things about malware. News at 11.

November 4, 2009

Over at PC Pro, my old chum Chris Brennan is conducting a brave experiment. As an ardent Mac user, in the cause of science, he’s put aside his Mac and is living with Windows 7 for a while (catch up with his posts here.) After a couple of weeks, a story about some Windows 7 [...]

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Windows 2009 = Macintosh 2001 (well, nearly)

October 21, 2009

It took Microsoft six years, from the release of the first Mac in 1984 to the release of Windows 3.0 in 1990, to make something that matched Apple. It’s taken them eight years, from the release of Mac OS X 10.0 to the release of Windows 7, to get close again. Welcome,  Windows 7. Seriously.

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How Microsoft is snatching Windows 7 defeat from the jaws of victory

August 6, 2009

I made the point with rather more swearing on Twitter yesterday, but Joe Wilcox says it without the bad language: “After commandingly executing Windows 7 development, Microsoft had run off the track right before the finish line. Suddenly, Windows 7 is a disaster potentially like its predecessor. Could anything be worse than Vista?” What’s the [...]

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Microsoft drops European Windows plan, so where next for upgrades?

August 2, 2009

PC Advisor: “It’s unclear how Microsoft will deal with customers who have already pre-ordered Windows 7E and paid the upgrade price but were told they would receive a full-package edition. Ironically, the users who may be most affected by the return of two-tier pricing are those who use Macs, but want to run Windows in [...]

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Ballmer predicts Windows PC 2010 = Macintosh 2008

July 31, 2009

More from the analyst’s meeting with Steve Ballmer: “Ballmer told analysts there would be a new class of “ultra-thin” PCs” — or high-end netbooks –coming this year that would combine the light weight of netbooks with high-power and high-performance of traditional PCs. ‘When I talk to many of our customers, they say ‘I love the [...]

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Watch out, Mac-using analysts: Ballmer knows where you live

July 31, 2009

Via Joe Wilcox, comes this bit of Steve Ballmer’s speech to financial analysts: “We have low share, by the way, in the investor audience. I can see the Apple logos versus the PC logos. So we have more work to do, more work to do. Our share is lower in this audience than the average [...]

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Daring Fireball is wrong about Microsoft’s weakness

July 31, 2009

I am, you’ll have noted, an argumentative sod. This is a great source of irritation to my dear other half, who rolls her eyes as I shout at the television or Internet. But sometimes, you read something and… well… you just have to respond. Such is the case with John Gruber’s post on “Microsoft’s long, [...]

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Chrome OS is not a threat to Windows « GartenBlog

July 8, 2009

“Launching a new PC OS is not easy even if your target is a cloud. Targeting netbooks in 2010 isn’t the answer either. As I’ve pointed out, netbook are laptops with a pivotal axis of price. We’re seeing netbooks with 12″ screens, full sized keyboards and 300gb of storage. Does anyone think that netbooks aren’t [...]

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