You used a desktop operating system to do WHAT now?

‘The failure to distinguish between the underlying skills and the particular programs means that many children will grow up with inflexible, rote-style learning that is exactly the opposite of what is needed in a digital society.’

Microsoft’s browser choice site fails to be truly random because it uses a biased naïve shuffle algorithm. Ironically, this is to IE’s detriment.

So that’s how they’re going to make money.

‘But as Apple gets more power, a funny thing is happening on the farm. Innovation and expression on Apple’s iPhone platform are beginning to suffer, even as Apple insists that its restrictions are for our own good. And as we gaze out at the titans of the tech landscape, it’s getting difficult to tell which are the humans and which are the pigs.’

‘Microsoft’s response to the campaign is just crazy-nuts jackassery of the highest order, and I can’t stand for it.’ A vitriolic but sound response to Microsoft's craptacular HTML email rendering.

Interesting.

Even Microsoft wants to get people off IE6. What more can we do?!

I can’t work out if this is an abuse of the very concept, or a clever hack.

No one should run Windows. Especially not the military.

Microsoft is now installing Firefox extensions on the sly as part of system updates. Slimy.

Linux? Fair and balanced reporting from the part-Microsoft-owned MSNBC.

Jamis on not working to fix things on Windows: ‘Microsoft may be an 800lb gorilla, but it's not _my_ gorilla, and it's not in _my_ room. If you need to appease the gorilla, that is (with all due respect) not my problem.’ We need more of this.

We should all use our own products. It’s the only way we'll find the flaws.

It's not so much Vista that sucks, more that the retailers supply it broken.

Not yours, is the answer.

Excellent summary of everything that's wrong with Windows from a technical/UI perspective.

Hilariously bad, incompetent and trivial. For example, font data is 'encrypted using an XOR algorithm using an XOR key of 0x50 on each byte of the font data'.

MS turning off authentication servers. Underscores the case against DRM.

In ten years, this will look absurdly dated. In twenty, it'll be cool again. In fifty years, it'll be the mid-21st century's equivalent of steampunk. Maybe.

'Microsoft is [...] hoping to use friendly "worms" to distribute software patches surreptitiously.' Yeah, that'll end well.

That's good news. Unfortunately, unless they actually force people off IE6, we're still going to have to deal with that albatross around our necks for many years to come.

Effective copy protection, or so bad you can't give it away?

How Mickey Mouse got to design your computer.

850 x 77.1 = 100,000?!

That’s what you get for running a third-rate operating system from a convicted monopolist.

Windows Vista ‘will make your computer less reliable and less secure.’

A linguist’s perspective on the shortcomings of Microsoft’s Open XML as compared with Open Document.

Microsoft’s shiny new player doesn’t work with their shiny new operating system. You couldn’t make it up!

Test both browsers on a single installation of Windows.

Hilarious guide to the different types of MS Word user.

Long-time Microsoft developer and evangelist explains why he has left the Microsoft world.

A great use for the domain name www.ie7.com!