dan tynan on Jul 13 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
The residents of Cringeville have a lot to say about forced upgrades, file swapping, and how the feds spend our money. Here’s a quick sampler of some of the best.
dan tynan on Jul 02 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Apparently Microsoft will stop at nothing to foist IE8 upon us. Cringely dissects Redmond’s latest gag-inducing ads.
dan tynan on Jun 19 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, youtube
By bribes or brute force, Microsoft is attempting to foist its latest browser upon the world. Better watch out, it could happen to you too.
dan tynan on Mar 20 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft
Well that didn’t take long.
Moments after Microsoft unleashed Internet Explorer 8 unto an unsuspecting planet it got hacked to bits. Actually, IE8 was hacked the day before it emerged from the beta chysalis.
In this case, at least, it was in the controlled environment of CanSecWest’s annual Pwn2Own contest. The hacker was a 25-year-old grad [...]
