A waste of bits and bandwidth

“I think it can now be safely said, in hindsight, that [tag]Microsoft[/tag]‘s entry into the [tag]browser[/tag] business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the [tag]Windows operating system[/tag] looks to be the worst decision and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe the company ever made. I call it the [tag]Great Microsoft Blunder[/tag]. ” —-John C. [tag]Dvorak[/tag]

Hell must have frozen over because Dvorak’s finally ranting about something which makes good sense.

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A really cool site with statistics of things like religion, Internet, and loads of other stuff. Check it out!

Good site for, well, statistics…

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Offical Microsoft IE7 Beta 2 public release download.

Mini-review of IE7 to follow shortly. Prediction: “Hey, it’s an awful lot like Firefox except that it sucks…”

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Tom’s Hardware wirites about a Microsoft ACPI driver bug, which can cause notebooks to lose more than one hour of their battery time as soon as a USB 2.0 device is connected. Intel says it’s the case with every notebook, Tom’s only has seen it with a Core Duo notebook. They also indicate that Microsoft was hiding the bug.

Typical…

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Ordinarily, I’m careful about making accusations like this, because I know I’ll get hammered by Apple bashers. But in this case, there’s not a shred of doubt: most of the features Microsoft demonstrated last night were pure, unadulterated ripoffs from Mac OS X.

I’ll freely admit that I’m interested in seeing Vista but it’s pretty obvious that I’m only posting this to bait Karan

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