Devil Mountain Software has been a thorn in the side of Microsoft for years and is adept at garnering headlines. The latest effort is a report claiming that 86 percent of Windows 7 PCs were gobbling up too much memory. Can you trust these findings and the company overall? The short answer: No. Here's why.
Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?
While Microsoft tries to convince enterprises to upgrade to Vista with presentations about total cost of ownership, the real trigger for an upgrade cycle may come from employees a few rungs below the CIO. That's a major takeaway of a research note from Cowen & Co.
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows off some new consumer devices optimized to run Intel processors and various versions of Windows 7. He also looks at the company's next-generation microprocessor, Sandy Bridge, running on Windows 7.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer finally announced the business availability of Vista and the company calls it the "most significant" release in its history.Significant?
A few interesting tidbits in the tech world. John Battelle highlights the weirdness of Google Checkout, which appears to stiff merchants on data.
InformationWeek made a big deal of Microsoft citing Mozilla as a competitor to Windows in its annual report, but the report is a bit overblown.InformationWeek writes:Microsoft always paints a picture of the competitive landscape in when it files its annual 10-K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Vista's hardware requirements got you down? Merrill Lynch is betting that you'll call Citrix.
A few good reasons why enterprises aren't jumping on the Vista bandwagon until late 2007 to 2008: --Training costs: Upgrade Vista, Office and Exchange at once as Microsoft would like. Sure why not?
There's a way to change Windows default AutoRun behavior. In this TR Dojo video, Bill Detwiler demonstrates a handy registry hack the will disable AutoRun on Windows XP and Vista.