Jan 31
Jan 31
A Croatian college student has created a utility that installs a seriously stripped-down Windows Vista, saying the heft of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest desktop operating system is just too big to believe. “Who can justify a 15GB operating system?” asked Dino Nuhagic, a fifth-year student from Split, a Croatian city on the Adriatic. Not Nuhagic, or the uncounted users who have turned to his creation, vLite.
Jan 31
Jan 30
Jan 30
It hardly seems possible, but it was one year ago today that Microsoft foisted Windows Vista onto a wary world. (OK — OEMs and enterprises had Vista foisted on them in November 2006, but January was the “big launch” for most of us).
Jan 30
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Jan 29
Jan 29
Pranksters have taken advantage of interest in the next version of Windows to post fake - but reportedly harmless - builds of Windows 7 on BitTorrent.A supposedly leaked “internal milestone 1″ Alpha version of Windows 7 (previously codenamed Blackcomb) is easily found using Torrent search engines. But the weighty 2.17GB download is a bandwidth-sapping waste of time composed of fake ISO disc images containing nothing but a string of zeros. Postings to Windows enthusiast site Neowin and BitTorrent sites such as Pirate Bay show that the “early preview” is nothing of the sort.
Jan 29
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Jan 27
Jan 27
Novell is trying something different in the Linux world–it’s building compatibility with other Linux distributions. Meanwhile Microsoft continues to lure new users to Windows Vista and XP using cash deals with silver lining.By nature, open source projects encourage diverse responses to a common set of problems. When focused on a single project that can create solutions that leap ahead of the current status quo.
Jan 27
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