What the “Mojave Experiment” teaches us

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Kyle

Recently, Microsoft has rolled out a new advertising campaign for its Windows Vista operating system, dubbed the Mojave Experiment.  The idea behind the campaign was to see whether regular, everyday users who stated their extreme dislike of Vista, but who never actually used Vista themselves, would, in fact, find Vista appealing once they got their [...]

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Make Windows XP start faster

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Kyle

More often than not, if your computer seems to be starting slower than usual, it’s not a hardware problem, but rather a software problem.  Many of the programs that you install onto your computer automatically start up with Windows XP.  Most of the time you probably won’t even be using those programs, but they’re still [...]

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Microsoft and the OLPC Foundation team up

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Kyle

Yesterday, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Foundation finally came out and said that it will be teaming up with Microsoft to make the Windows XP operating system available on its versatile laptop, known as the XO.  The OLPC has been plagued by a variety of snafus, such as the recent departures of several important [...]

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Ballmer addresses Vista concerns, speaks of XP’s end-of-life

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Kyle

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, recently commented on Windows Vista, stating that it is a “work in progress” and that Microsoft has learned a great deal from its latest OS. Yesterday in a conference in Europe, Ballmer reiterated the end-of-life deadline for Windows XP, but also hinted that, if enough consumer demand is there, Microsoft may [...]

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Eee PC 900 coming to U.S. on May 12

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Kyle

The Eee PC 900, the successor of the immensely popular Asus Eee PC, will finally be hitting U.S. shores come May 12. The $549 ULPC (ultra low-cost PC) boasts several improvements over its predecessor, perhaps the most notable being its new 8.9-inch screen. The new screen runs at a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, [...]

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