Google OS

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Is anyone surprised? This has been talked about for years now, but finally Google anounced its own Operating System. Suprisingly, yet not, the system will not be entirely based on Linux, as was speculated before, but on Chrome, further blurring the line between PC Operating System and the web. The fact that the new OS… Read more »

I’m a PC, and I’m running Linux

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You’ve probably seen Microsoft’s response to Apple’s “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC commercial”. Well, from a marketing perspective, the campaign is a disaster. Any person familiar with marketing (and I only have a few undergrad courses behind my belt) will tell you that an ad is supposed to build a brand. In this… Read more »

MS Priorities

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“We broke a lot of things. We know that, and we know it caused you a lot of pain.” That’s what Brad Brooks said about Windows Vista on the Worldwide Partner Conference. So what’s Microsoft’s plan? They’re launching a new advertising campaign! It even includes a TV response ad to Apple’s famous “I’m a Mac,… Read more »

MS Madness

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Checking my Windows Updates this week, I found a patch, titled “Update to Windows Vista (KB955020)”. After my recent upgrade problems I check every update offered by Microsoft. Well, according to this article, the update adds the words, such as “Friendster,” “Klum,” “Nazr,” “Obama,” and “Racicot” to the dictionary to prevent applications from underlining the… Read more »