Six Ways That Windows Will Never Catch Up To Linux

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Linux and Unix

Long-term readers of this site will know that I use both Windows and Linux regularly. I appreciate the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. And I admit that there are places where Linux is simply left behind (games, some graphics applications). But one thing I rarely see is a discussion of where Windows is failing [...]

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Facebook Gets Assimilated into the Microsoft Collective.

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Microsoft and Windows

Ah! Where did all these Facebook stories come from all of a sudden?

Wired sniffs about it haughtily.
O’Reilly Radar beeps frenetically.
Programmable Web makes a pithy observation.
The Register snarks about it.
Read-Write Web wrings its hands over it.
Are Technica reports the facts.
ZDNet looks alarmed.
Search-Engine Watch watches the deal like a hawk.
C-Net makes some analysis.
Munchkins. Nothing at all to [...]

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Firefox 2.0.0.8 Review

Posted by: Rea Maor In: FireFox Related

The new Firefox just came out five days ago, and I’ve had the opportunity to get an early peek at it. This update is important, because it fixes a whole slew of security and stability issues, in both Windows and Linux.

It also now has official support for Romanian and Georgian languages. Given how many Romanians [...]

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