Your PC is more expensive to run with Apple software
Posted by Mike Halsey in saving money on 06. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
I’m not only a PC, I’m a Microsoft lock-in. I use Windows, Office, Live Mail and Calendar, Live Suite and Windows Mobile. Why do I exclusively use Microsoft products? The answer is simple really, it’s just so convenient to do so. It’s called the lock-in.
Other companies have lock-ins too, top of the list being Apple. [...]
Windows 7 Browser Ballot Screen Update
Posted by Mike Halsey in news on 07. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Microsoft have been extremely quiet in recent weeks about their proposed browser ballot screen for Windows 7 users in the EU. Finally today they made some announcements, as has been reported by Mary-Jo Foley.
The ballot screen, see above, will be delivered via Windows Update. This means it looks as if Internet Explorer will initially be [...]
April Fool ;o) I didn’t really buy a Mac
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 01. Apr, 2009 | 1 Comment
Okay, I’m gonna say this April Fool was aimed squarely at one friend of mine. You know who you are… Phil!
I’m not really likely to buy a Mac any time soon or in the future (not that I hate Apple that is). The clue of course was the reference to my buying an iMac [...]
Finally… I bought an iMac
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 01. Apr, 2009 | 4 Comments
The Windows 7 ‘technical beta’ has been a hugely frustrating experience for many people, especially myself. Microsoft turned the entire thing into a bug hunt and have been criticised from almost everyone. At least Apple, who always run secret betas, are open and honest about being secret (if that’s not a contradiction in terms).
Anyway, what [...]
The browser is changing
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 24. Feb, 2009 | 1 Comment
Internet browsers have changed a great deal in recent years, but it’s all been focused exclusively on security, stability and compatibility. The main way we interact with the web browser has remained largely the same since I was using Netscape at college way back, well… it was a very long time ago.
There have been very few [...]
