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I’ve just read that Microsoft was spoofing itself with the Vista SP1 video. I’m not so sure – they’ve got a pretty long and rich history of making shite promotional films, such as this one, which just keeps on giving. Still, fair play to MS if it is a spoof – I certainly believed it. [...]

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Thanks to Adam for this. It comes from Facebook Lexicon, a new trend-tracking tool for the social network that can tell you how often certain terms appear in wall posts. The blue line is “party tonight”, the beige is “hungover”. The big fat spike is New Year’s eve. Click on the pic to see it [...]

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This is sort of the second half to the earlier Microsoft post, where I was rambling on about people running lightweight operating systems on lightweight computers, and only requiring lightweight applications delivered through a browser. I’m reminded of the Network Computer, or NC, something that a consortium of manufacturers and the database company Oracle tried [...]

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A TechCrunch post yesterday helped focus my mind on something that’s been dawning of me of late: Microsoft is in deep shit. XP refuses to be killed off and Vista is flat-lining, while people are increasingly inclined to dabble with Linux-based OS like Ubuntu. Meanwhile, Office is bloated, expensive and hideous to use. Open Office [...]

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I’ve come to a mini-realisation. There is no getting away from IT. Let me fill you in – I used to work in tech support, which was OK, but there’s only so many progress meters a man can take. If you laid mine end to end they’d probably reach Belgium. My plan was to begin [...]

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