Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

A year ago I wrote about Google’s hypocritical decision to help the Chinese government with censoring information in China. There was no doubt that this decision was made based on pure business reasons. They sold themselves out to the Chinese government expecting to be able to gain (more) access to the big market in China, even against their own principles. … Continue reading

Now that Windows Vista has officially been launched and is available, I want to give my thoughts on it as a product. And as you can see from the title of this post, it’s not going to be very positive. If you’ve been reading my previous posts on Windows Vista, you already know most of the problems I have with … Continue reading

Charlie Demerjian continues to give Microsoft a hard time regarding the new DRM technologies introduced in Windows Vista. It seems Microsoft officially responded on the official Windows Vista Blog to a paper posted by Peter Guttman not too long ago. Read Demerjian’s article before you continue to read this post. It’ll probably be no surprise to you when I say … Continue reading

As crazy as this may sound, we’re heading into a time when it seems like piracy is going to be the better choice compared to legally owning content. The Inquirer’s Charlie Demerjian explains why this will be the case in a recent article. Head on over and read the article. If you haven’t yet done so, also read a recent … Continue reading

Peter Gutmann has written up a paper analyzing the costs that are being introduced with the content protection mechanisms in Windows Vista. You can read the paper on his website here. Most of what’s in his paper is not new information to those of us following the development of Windows Vista, but he does a good job of summarizing a … Continue reading

IDC have released their top 10 predictions for “Worldwide System Infrastructure Software” in 2007 yesterday, and it doesn’t look good for Microsoft Windows. The following two predictions are of interest here: 9. Microsoft’s client operating system anti-piracy efforts will backfire. Microsoft’s anti-piracy campaign will drive customers toward Linux. 10. Our expectations remain consistent that Windows Vista in 2007 will not … Continue reading

On the picture above you can see our beloved Steve-O during the launch of Windows Vista with next to him Lenovo’s CEO William Amelio. Steve-O understandably looked very happy that day, no doubt glad the long development cycle of Windows Vista finally came to an end. However, things have since changed, and I wouldn’t want to be in Steve-O’s office … Continue reading

Ex CIA agent Robert Steele recently spoke about the relationship between the CIA and Google again, and mentioned how CIA seed money helped to finance Google’s launch. He did this on the Alex Jones show, where he not too long ago had already mentioned how Google was providing assistence to the CIA. From this article: An ex-CIA agent has gone … Continue reading

I mentioned before in a previous post that in my opinion the prices for Microsoft’s latest version of Windows, called Windows Vista, are way too high. The Business version costs about $300 while the Ultimate version costs an incredible $400. If you thought those prices were high, you’re not going to believe the following. The prices in Europe have recently … Continue reading

John Battelle made a post on his website claiming that “an official Google spokesperson” said that “The statements related to Google are completely untrue.” The statements that “official Google spokesperson” refers to, according to John Battelle, are the ones which are summarized in a previous post of mine which you can find here. First of all, notice how the name … Continue reading