dan tynan on Nov 21 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
What do Microsoft and OJ have in common? Highly public courts cases with lots of incriminating evidence. But no amount of laywerly magic may be able to save Redmond from the public’s verdict.
dan tynan on Nov 12 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Are journalists to blame for Vista’s failure to catch on? Will Windows 7 suffer a similar fate? Cringely tosses more gasoline on the OS fire.
dan tynan on Oct 29 2008 | Filed under: 15 minutes, Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Shameless self promotion
My, my. The “Windows: Unsafe at any speed?” post last week certainly raised a few hackles -– thanks in part to a totally unexpected appearance on the New York Times web site. (Hello New Yawkers, and welcome to Geek Street USA.)
I haven’t gotten this violent a reaction since I suggested the Creation Museum add [...]
dan tynan on Oct 24 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft has issued an emergency patch for Windows (again). Is it time to finally trade in that old clunker for something that works? Cringely has a few thoughts.
dan tynan on Sep 03 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0
It’s all Chrome, all the time, here on the InterWeb. Does Google’s browser beta live up to the hype? Well, yes and no. Cringely has more.
dan tynan on Jul 05 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
It turns out the reports of XP’s death may be slightly exaggerated.
Sure, the obits have been posted and the requiems are being sung. The fat lady has already packed up her girdle and gone home with a bucket of KFC. Yet it seems — like [...]
dan tynan on Jun 30 2008 | Filed under: Google, Microsoft, National insecurity, PC World
Microsoft’s cofounder says he’ll do charitable work after he retires this month. But we have some other suggestions: driving instructor, expert witness, and circus clown for starters. And Bill has experience in all of them.
(A version of this post originally appeared on PCworld.com)
For more than 30 years he has roamed among us, a strange hybrid [...]
dan tynan on Apr 21 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
(This post originally appeared in and/or on Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
The international movement to save endangered operating systems (aka Windows XP) has gained supporters in unlikely quarters. Cringester J. C. reports:
Just got a call from my Dell rep: Dell will provide XP on business class computers (Latitude and Optiplex) through [...]
dan tynan on Apr 18 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Blunder Road. A Microsoft music video by “Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band” has been causing a few chuckles and a lot of retching across the Net. In the video, a Born in the USA-era Springsteen impersonator sings:
“Last year when Vista [...]
dan tynan on Apr 14 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Things that suck
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
That creaking sound, the dust, that feeling of vague but imminent doom? It’s not an earthquake. Your office isn’t falling into a sink hole. It’s the warning signs of Windows collapsing.
According to a presentation served up last week by two Gartner analysts, [...]
dan tynan on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, iPhone
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Full speed behind. It seems the rumors of XP’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft has bowed to overwhelming demand and decided to give XP a reprieve, kinda sorta. Scheduled to get the gas chamber in July, XP will continue to live [...]
