Tag: Vista
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 11-June-2007: BlackBerry Curve, iPhone, TorrentSpy, Sony, Vista, Flickr, Charlie Brooker, Facebook
-ZDNet catches RIM out by Googling ‘iPhone’, and discovering one of the sponsored links is for the BlackBerry Curve, tsk tsk.
– The end is nigh, as one of the largest BitTorrent sites, TorrentSpy, has been ordered to monitor its users’ online activities, to then be handed over to the MPAA. Goodbye, oh fair Lost downloads…
– Sony has a bee in its bonnet…
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to conduct joint-interview next week
It’s ever so humid up here in Shiny Towers, and in between alternating between draping ourselves over the rotating fans and nipping down the road for iced teas, we’ve been reading about how Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft will be conducting a 75-minute joint interview next Wednesday the 30th with various ‘tech executives’ at the annual ‘D – All Things Digital’ conference in California. Yikes. It’s obvious…
Bill Gates meets Steve Jobs at a party video
From Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's new TV show. I bet Steve and Bill's lawyers are looking very closely at this. Good old Beeb….
Microsoft sells 20 million copies of Windows Vista
Microsoft has claimed that 20 million copies of its latest operating system, Windows Vista, have already been sold to consumers since it was released on 30th January. This compares to the 17 million copies of XP sold in its first…
Mac OS X Leopard delay rumours appear to be false
Over the weekend, rumours had surfaced suggesting that Apple's next version of OS X, code name Leopard, would be delayed until around October. Ironically, part of the reason given for the speculation was that Apple wanted to improve support for…
Microsoft admit Live OneCare should not have been rolled out
ZDNet managed to scoop an interview at CeBIT with a senior manager at Microsoft who admitted that Live OneCare, the consumer security product, should not have been launched when it was, being far from perfect and having pieces missing. The…
Analyst claims Vista's user interface is a step back: slower than OS X
Just to add fuel to the heated debate and comparison between Windows Vista and Mac OS X, French analyst Andreas Pfeiffer has been testing 'user interface friction', and claims that Vista is slower than both Windows XP and Mac OS…
Microsoft hikes the cost of putting Vista on a Mac: consumer editions not allowed on virtual machines
The war between Microsoft and Apple continues, as Microsoft bans consumer (ie cheaper) versions of its Vista operating system being used on a Mac. Thanks to the licensing agreement for the consumer editions of Vista, they cannot be run on…
Microsoft looks beyond Vista: Vienna in 2009?
Ever forward-looking, Microsoft is already murmuring about its post-Vista plans. Given that it took so long for Vista to arrive, and that key features were left out in order to hit deadlines, that's not too surprising. Come 2009, we could…
Apple claim none of their software works on Vista
After Apple's earlier warning to iTunes-using PC users not to upgrade to Vista, they're now claiming that none of their software works under Vista. Affected software includes not only iTunes, but Quicktime, Airport for Windows, Bonjour for Windows, iDisk, and…
