We don’t want to start a political debate, nor pit Liberals against Conservatives. In light of the Patriot Act, the revelations about the NSA domestic spy program, and a continuing decline in the freedoms we, by the constitution were guaranteed, enjoy, it just seems to me that if we continue to stand by while we allow American schools… Read More »
For the second month in a row, Windows XP shows stronger growth than Windows 8.x It’s a new month and so once again NetMarketShare reports desktop share for all of the major operating systems. What’s interesting this month is all versions of Windows showed fairly minor changes. Whether dropping or gaining, the differences in share were minimal. However,… Read More »
Windows 8.1 Update 1 is due out the day XP dies: April 8, 2014. Coincidental? What do you think. Anyway, those of you who have Windows 8 / 8.1 might be interested to know that Microsoft is working hard to make Windows 8 more like Windows 7 — really. The more they change Windows 8, the more like… Read More »
Lawsuit: Sprint charged US gov’t $21 million too much for spying expenses US files suit against Sprint, says carrier’s surveillance fees too high. The US government today filed suit against Sprint, alleging that the company overcharged government agencies when submitting expense reimbursement requests for wiretap operations that spied on Sprint customers. Sprint “knowingly submitted false claims to federal… Read More »
Mistake after mistake, patch after patch, Microsoft will soon be annoying Windows XP users with a warning that their operating system support will end on April 8, 2014. Do you think there are any XP users out there who don’t know that by now. It seems to me that Microsoft is stooping to new lows to try to… Read More »
The following article comes to us from Digital Trends, usually a good source of geek news and trends. Read the article, in its entirety, then come back and take our poll (at the very bottom of this post). Apple and Chrome have already made their operating systems free — will Microsoft make Windows 8 free? Would it make… Read More »