Tag Archives: Windows 7

Apple levitates: Financial quarter, by the numbers

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Joe Wilcox goes through Apple’s numbers for the quarter thoroughly (and dispassionately – something that I appreciate when it comes to numbers). What sticks out for me is that Apple has managed a pretty astounding feat: preserving unit sales (or … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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Windows 2009 = Macintosh 2001 (well, nearly)

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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Chrome OS is not a threat to Windows « GartenBlog

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

“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 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s days numbered on netbooks? Not so fast

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Image via CrunchBase Michael Hickens thinks that thinks that the emergence of Android as a viable operating system on netbooks means Microsoft is in trouble: “Microsoft got away with ignoring the Web as long as everything important was taking place … Continue reading →

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Windows 7, Mac OS X and Ubuntu: A Tale of Three Operating Systems

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Joe Wilcox picks up on a comment that I made on his post about Windows 7 and its relationship to the Mac: “As you know, Joe, I’m a Mac to Linux switcher (with over 20 years Mac use under my … Continue reading →

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A Windows 7 experiment

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

I’m taking a break from the world of Linux for a couple of weeks and giving Windows 7 a proper test drive. I installed it temporarily a couple of weeks ago, but didn’t play with it long enough to form … Continue reading →

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Why Microsoft lose and Apple wins, part two

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

There are some very interesting facts about the reaction of Microsoft to Spotlight after its first demo revealed in the comments to a post on Joe Wilcox’s AppleWatch blog. "MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without … Continue reading →

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