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1. Comment - Windows XP Media Center Edition Goes Gold

   (Sep 8, 2002 - 9:10 PM)

   What most of you don't get is that this is all just hype. Media Center is NOT an OS! It's simply WinXP SP1 with another bundled program installed on it. The interface and the remote may make it a tad easier to use the PC as a home entertainment hub, but Media Center adds absolutely nothing new or special. And when you close it, you get back to the same exact WinXP desktop, identical to any other.

2. Comment - Perspective: XP or OS X?

   (Jun 2, 2002 - 1:41 PM)

   You have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know why the hell you're rebooting 40 times a day, but my XP box is rebooted every few weeks at most (and absolutely never crashes, despite all the torture i put my computer through). Maybe you're still stuck with the impression that you should reboot every time some poorly-coded shareware app gives you an error message.
   
   And if you knew anything about how the NT kernel works, you'd know WinXP definately IS truly multistasking and multithreaded (as opposed to Win9x being only partly, and OS 9 not at all). The reason why you should turn off other programs when burning CDs (and this is true for ALL os's) is that if other programs start competing for the computer's resources with the CD app, buffer underflow occurs (unless you have a BurnProof cd writer, which you should). Also, although OS X may also have multitasking support, actually running multiple programs is a pain in the a** from a UI perspective. How the hell are you suppose to efficiently switch windows in OSX when you're trying to use a dozen different programs at the same time? Resize them and put them all in the corner? Or maybe fish through half a dozen identical-looking IE icons in the Dock? Window's taskbar is BY FAR WAY supperior, and Alt+Tab is simply beautiful. I still don't understand why Apple hasn't put that basic functionality into MacOS.

3. Comment - Microsoft Pushes Critical IIS Patch

   (Apr 16, 2002 - 10:11 PM)

   I personally can't wait for IIS 6, the security-focused rewrite of IIS due to ship in Win.NET, to end all this insecurity bs. The one big advantage of closed source over open source is that when a company really wants to write code right, it doesn't need to go through hordes of stubborn independent developers who prefer doing things their own way.
   
   Of course IIS 6 won't end secutrity issues, but the intense auditing and careful programing that a determined company is able to force its programmers to do should greatly reduce the number of security problems.
   
   Of course we really can't know how well MS will be able to succeed in this untill Win.NET actually ships (which'll be in a year), but i am hopefull that ms really has learned its lesson. After all, its security initiative has already postponed its OS releases by years, possible cutting MS's profit margins by quite a bit, in effect showing MS's determination and willingness to make sacrafices.

4. Comment - Novell, Executives Attack Microsoft Practices

   (Mar 29, 2002 - 4:43 PM)

   Whether or not you like MS products (I, personally, often do), MS really did engage in many anti-competitive practices such as forcing OEMs to not bundle other OS's with their PCs or forcing competitors out of business by making changes to the OS that made their software inoperable.
   
   I don't think that middleware bundling is that big of an issue (especially considering that every single OS, including MacOS and Linux, does it), and i strongly disagree that breaking up MS or forcing it to reveal windows source code are good ideas. Many of the 'remedies' are nothing more than a bunch of angry people trying to think up ways of hurting MS. Personally, i think that the problems should be attacked at their source. There should be people watching MS's licensing practices and making sure that competitors get an equal chance. Also, things like forcing MS to allow people to uninstall bundled apps or allowing them to chose what they want installed when installing Windows are really good ideas. Simple things like these can go a long way in preventing MS's unfair practices.

5. Comment - IE 6 Adoption Soars, Netscape Use Plummets

   (Mar 29, 2002 - 4:32 PM)

   What i hate about Opera, at least the free version, is that all the ads and other crap in the toolbar makes the space in which the web pages are displayed tiny, especially at lower resolutions. I personally find it very annoying.
   
   Also, i find the keyboard shortcuts (something which i consider a decisive feature) to be poorly designed. I don't want to reach over to F8 in order to type in a web address. I find pressing Alt+D in IE much easier because i don't even have to lift my hand off the home row.