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Windows Vista: The ‘Huh?’ starts now

Computerworld technology writer and former editor of Windows Magazine Mike Elgin, writes about the mess that is the Windows Vista upgrade, in Windows Vista: The ‘Huh?’ starts now.

Microsoft is losing consumer operating system market share to Apple for many reasons, but most of those reasons can be oversimplified thus: Mac OS is simple, and Windows is complicated.

That’s why it may be such a costly error for Microsoft to make the Vista upgrade such a confusing mess.

There are no fewer than 10 versions of Windows Vista. Need I say more?

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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

One the best speeches I have ever read, heard, or viewed regarding life work and the importance of doing what you love. For the full text of the speech, click Continue reading below. Enjoy! This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and

Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10?

Apple’s new operating system and its massive new feature set challenge users anddevelopers to explore new and better ways of working. I don’t think Leopard is a perfect 10, but the author, Tom Yager, opines that Leopard’s many new features and underlying capabilities allow Leopard to “stay

Leopard: Infinite Desktop Sharing ;)

So I installed Leopard and have been playing around with several of the new features. One feature that is of particular interest to many of us that provide technical support for family and friends is the new “Desktop Sharing” capability. Here’s a clip from Apple’s guided tour http: