Bad Windows

It's not often we here at LinuxInsider get to write about celebrities — other than the Richard Stallman variety, of course — and indeed, many of the geeks who grace our pages from time to time seem to shun the limelight rather than seek it out. So it was with great glee this week that we found cause to mention none other than Jerry Seinfeld. Indeed, as our sister publication reported on Thursday, the comedian famous for his stories about nothing will soon be a spokesman for much the same.

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Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP.

In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing software developer Devil Mountain Software estimated that more than one in three new machines had either been downgraded by vendors such as Dell, or by customers once they bought the PC.

The results were garnered by the research firm’s CTO Craig Barth in collaboration with InfoWorld. He based the numbers on Devil Mountain’s Exo.performance.network by collating the vendor and system model number with computer vendors’ catalogues.

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Microsoft is all set to offer a peek into the technology powering the next version of Windows, Windows 7, in October 2008, by sharing engineering information about Windows 7 with attendees at two technical conferences it runs.

Windows 7 developers are scheduled to showcase their work at both conferences, the Professional Developers Conference and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Windows 7 is based on Vista, and is expected to release sometime around January 2010.

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PS: BadWindowsVista has information, that Microsoft wants to release Windows 7 even earlyer, than 2010. They fully understand, that Vista is failure.

No… Ah stuff; there I was watching the Olympics opening ceremonies when I thought, for just a second, that I saw a BSOD during the run up to the lighting of the Olympic flame. It turns out I hadn't been spending too much time at the keyboard. It seems that during the lighting ceremony that Windows really had fouled up on the world's largest stage.

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Hi Dear Readers,

I am back with a new blog for all of you that will bring you news and updates about everything related to Free and Open Source Software FOSS, Open Content, Open Business and anything OPEN you can think of, yeup, its my newest blog titled "The Open Manisfesto Blog!"

As a starting point, I've got an amazing story up my sleeve as a first entry. With this story I am also becomming a FOSS Detective hunting down all those proprietary software giants trying to use FOSS to promote their productives "Grrrr" but not openly accepting their support for FOSS! Well guess who made the latest blunder? None other than, your's truly, MS! Yeup, and they did it with their online marketing campaign for promoting Windows Vista titled the the "Mojave Experiment".

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