Windows XP
In comments to my post, Taiwan starts orbiting the silly galaxy, reader ‘adacosta’ feels it is a sovereignty issue, while reader ‘Michael Turton’ starts back down that tired line of Windows Vista is bad.
Since I spent quite a few minutes on my reply,...(read more)
Just when you think it is safe to go outside comes the news of another formerly sensible country entering the silly constellation.
This time it is Taiwan!
In news straight out of Mad magazine, the powers that be at that manufacturing powerhouse have decided...(read more)
Rampant shark jumping on the road to irrelevance.
For the past several months, InfoWorld, that formerly important IT tome, has been beating the Save (Windows) XP drum in an utterly transparent attempt to remain relevant in the collective minds of IT administrators.
Last week, the news came down that the OLPC had decided to use Microsoft's Windows XP as one of the operating systems shipping with the system.
What a letdown for those folks looking to colonize the next generation of 3rd World inhabitants to satisfy their warped egos.
If the allegations made by a former OLPC drone Ivan Krstic are true, then Nicko is a real sick fucker!
Who knew?
For a while now, CRN seems to have hopelessly lost its way.
Formerly required reading for VARs, solution providers, and (IT) industry luminaries, CRN, in the last few seems to have overindulged in the myth of open source, and totally forgot about their ultimate customers, the endusers.
Any reader of the magazine these past few years would have seen a transition from a glossy focused on resellers/solution providers delivering the best solutions, to one seemingly held hostage to that vocal minority of resellers hell bent on wringing the very last sum of money from unsuspecting clients in the name of services.
What brings this to mind?
A so-called study finding that Windows Vista ™ is no more secure than Windows XP™.
???
Are you freakin’ kiddin’ me?
I skimmed quickly through the article for the punchline, and or to find the methodology use to formulate those absurd assertions.
Nothing satisfactory.
Note: Looking at my feedreader, I see Ars Technica has already posted on the article.
Since they beat me to the punch with a pretty detailed article, I will keep still for a moment.
Still, you have to wonder who is minding the store there.
I wonder why executive management at the parent company does not put a smackdown on these yum-yums due to falling readership.
Brings me back to the headline question:
"Will CRN become the next Infoworld?"
And fade into irrelevancy?
What a shame!