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New Apple ads savage Microsoft's $300m Windows campaign

The first, "Bean Counter," is the most direct and tackles Microsoft's well-publicized $300 million marketing campaign for Windows, which already includes $10 million just for a set of ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld as well as the company's usual online, print and TV efforts. Long's persona suggests that PC -- and thus Microsoft -- is putting far more money into marketing Windows than into fixing it, creating a smokescreen to mask the problems with its latest operating system.

Top ten terrible tech products - Crave at CNET.co.uk

Vista voted worst invention by CNET.

Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded

Cnet is reporting that Dell will shortly announce a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu pre-loaded on certain consumer-oriented desktops and notebooks. The announcement comes after a groundswell of support for pre-installed Linux on Dell's IdeaStorm site. 'The company is starting its business by trying to appeal to users of desktop computers. From there, Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth has said, the company plans to head to the server market, where the real Linux bread and but

» Why Windows is less secure than Linux | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com

Both images are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture. The same page and picture. A system call is an opportunity to address memory. A hacker investigates each memory access to see if it is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.

Apple says Don't Upgrade to Vista ... Yet

Apple said iTunes may work with many Vista computers, but the company knows of some compatibility problems and recommends that users wait until it resolves the issues with an iTunes update in the next few weeks, the company said in a statement provided Friday by spokesman Derick Mains. The iTunes software is key to synching music on computers...

Super Bowl stadium site hacked, seeded with exploits

The blogger makes this sound like a serious attack and that it's spread to the CDC Web site. It's funny in contrast to Bill Gates' interview on Slashdot that talked up how secure Windows is vs. the Mac.

E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing'

I would focus on shipping Vista, but that's just me: "The project, dubbed "immortal computing," would let people store digital information in physical artifacts and other forms to be preserved and revealed to future generations, and maybe even to future civilizations."

Netflix unveils instant viewing - for Windows only

Death on arrival: "Another major drawback: the instant-viewing system only works on personal computers and laptops equipped with a high-speed Internet connection and Microsoft's Windows operating system."

Flaws Are Detected in Microsoft’s Vista

Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.

Microsoft Software Updates Go on Sale to Businesses

From the what drugs are the Gartner Group researchers on category...They are predicting a decline in personal computer operating system share for Mac and Linux for 2007 and beyond. People pay them for this data ... I guess Microsoft pays them for this data. Notice the entirely anemic penetration of Vista in CY 2007 and 2008.

John Dvorak on Vista's Launch

"While there is no way that Vista will be a flop, since all new computers will come with Vista pre-installed, there seems to be no excitement level at all. And there does not seem to be any compelling reason for people to upgrade to Vista."

A first look at Windows Vista, good and bad

Many will have to buy a faster PC or upgrade their current machine to run Vista smoothly. At a minimum, you'll need a system with a recent processor, 1 gigabyte of system memory and 128 megabytes of graphics memory. The word from insiders, including Dell's chief executive, is that you'll really need at least 2 gigabytes of RAM.

Start me up: The sound of Vista

I'm not really sure it sounds very good at all. Should go well with Vista.

Slashdot _ Analysts Split Over Vista Launch Date

A 'ZDNet' report details comments by analysts on the upcoming release of Microsoft's newest operating system. Vista is currently scheduled to be released to businesses next month, and to consumers in January of next year. Not everyone on the sidelines agrees that the company will make that deadline, though. Reservations seem mostly to center around legal and political issues, rather than any concrete technical problems.

Slashdot _ The Relevance of Windows

In the age of 'Web 2.0' both older folks who remember the days before Windows and younger folks who have never known anything else are beginning to see Microsoft's offering as old news.