Microsoft is forcing users to leave their operating system behind and upgrade to Windows 7. Vista was one of Microsoft’s biggest disasters to date, and now it appears they are trying to move as far away from Vista as they can get, including forcing users to eventually upgrade to Windows 7. There are many problems [...]
Speech Given by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer
Before the U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Retreat
In Williamsburg, Virginia on February 6, 2009
STEVE BALLMER: Well, I want to thank Jay, I want to thank the speaker and all of you for the opportunity to be here today and chat with you. It’s a real honor [...]
It’s not just Sequim and Port Angeles print newspapers that are losing subscribers and advertisers. It’s happening around the country, and the timing is a function of the slow death of the American print newspaper, which is a result of consumers migrating to the Internet with increasing momentum. Here’s a very interesting video on the [...]
Why do we all love to hate Microsoft? Because, as my dearest mother always said when I was growing up, “If it isn’t one thing, it’s another.” I had no idea my mother was training me even as a child to learn about Microsoft operating systems. How wise she is. I’ll [...]
No president before Obama has engaged technology and the Internet on the road to the Whitehouse. Two weeks after winning the election but still two months from taking his place in the oval office, Barak Obama released his first video address on YouTube as president-elect. In a matter of days his three minute informal video [...]
Google does it again. Another announcement today from Google that their very popular online email known as “gmail” will now have the capability of using gmail even when you are not connected to the Internet. Poor Microsoft. They get all this bad publicity over Vista, and have to come out with patches for Internet Explorer, [...]
Twenty five years ago Apple launched the Macintosh, affectionately known as the Mac. It was January 24, 1984. My first computer was an Apple IIe and then a Macintosh. It was an amazing piece of technology at the time. I was living in Spokane at the time and still in law school.
Apple was in its [...]
Microsoft recently announced the next version of its operating system (OS) was coming out in beta and soon would be available to the public. Vista was such a disaster for MS, it had to try to recover by sending its programmers back to the dungeon without food and water to quickly come up with a [...]