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.
ZDNet's Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley make some proposals that could help Microsoft solve for its Windows 10 version 1809 issues in the future. We should have charged Microsoft a consulting day rate.
The key headlines of the day:Google Ad Creation Marketplace auditioning radio talent: Exclusive First LookWindows Vista Randomization Gets OEM Thumbs UpProfits rise at Microsoft joint venture.Building better mosquitoes.
Will Microsoft’s Windows 7 succeed where Vista failed? ZDNet Correspondent Sumi Das talks to Larry Dignan, editor in chief of ZDNet, and Ed Bott, ZDNet's Microsoft Report blogger, about Windows 7's pros and cons.
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.
The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed.
Microsoft has flashier products---Windows 8 and Kinect---but the staid products that appeal to corporations are carrying the company.
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.
Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?
TechRepublic's Deb Shinder examines all the factors you'll want to consider when the barrage of new models hits the shelves in the months to come.
