Jul 17, 2011

Or at least dying. But not really sick, however. Earlier this week Microsoft announced that its Windows XP operating system, probably the most successful version of Windows thus far, and perhaps the most successful operating system of all OSes (to date) was about to reach its official end of life, with all support for it ending in 1000 days – April 6,...

Oct 24, 2010

It’s now been one year since Windows 7 was officially released, in in that first year, they’ve sold about 650000 copies a day. That’s 240 million, over the year. That translates to about a 17% market share of desktop operating systems, which I don’t think is too bad.

Oct 17, 2010

As good as OS X is, sometimes it just has to be Windows. For instance, there are applications that have been written for Windows, an for which there is no Mac version. Yes, I know that sounds odd, but there are some applications where there is either no Mac version, or perhaps the Mac version is not quite up to par. But when that happens, what’s a person...

Sep 19, 2010

The next version of Microsoft’s internet browser, Internet Explorer 9, was released to the public as a beta this week. Supposed to be faster, more secure, less resource intensive, and much more user friendly, it does not support XP, and that could be a double edged sword. On the one hand, Windows 7 has been well accepted in the market place, and this...

Jul 18, 2010

I’ve been seeing some interesting commentary this week about how Windows XP remains the dominant computer operating system, and is still on something like about 75% of systems. Well, to those who are trying to make this look like Windows 7 has failed, it’s like, duh! If Windows 7, in about 8 months on the market, has had such an uptake, then I would...