Intro BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), the infamous sight of windows crashing, perhaps taking your work with it, perhaps taking everything with it, as the crash corrupts the file allocation tables beyond repair! (This is why we do back-ups, people!) The problem with the BSOD, and Microsoft’s cryptic messages, is they can be a sod …
Windows: A brief history Pre-windows (on the PC) Ignoring any Unix and Apple flavours, the first multi-tasking ‘windows’ program was IBM’s Topview application, released in 1984. After this, in July 1985, some four months before the first Microsoft version, Quarterdeck released DESQview. November 20th, 1985: Windows 1.0 The first version of Windows™ It’s main selling …
Vista? Or eyesore? Windows 7 backtracking In an article of the same heading by VNUNet, the laughable reason given being that nearly everyone who buys and installs Windows 7 will be doing so from a Vista machine. Clearly Microsoft are still in denial about just how naff Vista is and how many people hate the …
Windows upgrade path: XP > Vista > XP > (>Vista>) 7 > XP > Linux!!! Recently tried playing with the various flavours. Downgrading up to Vista(!) – tore that bag of kak out. I point blank refuse to use an OS that needs a whacking great 1Gb of memory just to run, especially when it …
Microsoft mess up This tickled me so I had to copy it here. I read it and sat here chuckling to myself as an executive manages the art of stating the bleedin’ obvious: Speaking at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, senior vice president for Windows Steven Sinofsky conceded that Vista had not …