This week's "say what" moment is courtesy of Microsoft marketing executive, Brad Brooks, speaking about an advertising campaign intended to restore consumer confidence in the Windows Vista operating system, who is quoted as saying "software out there is made to be compatible with your whole life." "We've got a pretty noisy competitor out there," Brooks said of Apple whose "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC," commercials criticize Windows ... Read full entry

Future operating systems to remain as Windows and Linux Looks like there's going to be no respite from the likes of Windows Vista for sometime, according to UNSW professor of operating systems, Gernot Heiser, who says the current "big name" operating systems (which, as some consolation, include Linux), are here to stay. Previously big companies had invested a lot of money to fight ... Read full entry

Microsoft top brass "burned" by Vista problems Are you a frustrated Windows Vista user? The news that even senior Microsoft executives encountered hassles with the new operating system, just might make your day then. Private Microsoft emails unearthed during a US court case have revealed that even the software giant's own executives struggled to get Windows Vista running smoothly. Early adopters of the operating system, which launched last year, battled with ... Read full entry