Microsoft Making It Easier To Ditch Windows For A Mac. It must no longer be a choice for MS to have compatibility with older versions of itself. It must be a sign that Google and other email providers are threatening its dominance. This is something that could have helped MS maintain dominance, but like always, the arrogance of market leaders is its own undoing.
How to disable programs that run when you start Windows XP Home Edition or Windows Vista. This worked great with my Windows XP computer and it is also compatible with Windows Vista. Probably works with Windows 7 as well.
Study finds Macs account for 11% of corporate computers, Windows XP dominates | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. I have been seeing this for years. People have gotten sick of using XP, and if they have Windows 7 they seem to prefer Macs. I think that the iPhone has done major work in rehabilitating the opinion of the general public about the functionality of Apple products.
Internet Explorer 10 Drops Vista Support – Slashdot. The reaction on this Slashdot thread seems like a knee jerk reaction. Lets compare to how Apple does things.
Apple limits Safari to which OS it wants to support. The most current version of Safari supports 10.6 and 10.5. It doesn’t support Tiger 10.4. So for IE 10 which is the next browser and really planned for Windows 8, it breaks down as follows. Current OS support, check. Previous OS support Windows 7 check. Previous to that (Vista) or 10.4 equivalent no support. Whats the problem?
Nice find. This video shows what those of us like myself faced in the early days of personal computing. It was a fun thing to be reminded of how crude things used to be.
via Teusje
