The forerunner of the apartment block building at Cappadocia.

It is 25 years since Bill Gates unveiled the first Windows operating system. I don’t know about anyone else, but it seems to me there has been very little noise made about this… milestone. Isn’t that odd?
Way back in 1983, when big hair, even bigger shoulder pads were the norm and the goodnight Kiwi [...]

French designer John Nouanesing clearly has a soft spot for the old Windows 3.1 operating system… he has designed an interior window frame based on the boxy old system.
Open or shut, it shows the familiar landscape view of Windows – blue skies and green fields.

As with the DIY blue screen of death recipe, this one [...]

While I’m sure there’s sound, scientific, reasoning for wanting to stuff up your Windows computer, by way a do it yourself blue screen of death recipe, I think I’ll pass on it.
So why would you want a Blue Screen of Death? We used it to test the capabilities of a remote recovery and management tool, [...]

Windows XP SP3 upgrade spells trouble for Internet Explorer
The imminently due Service Pack 3 for Windows XP apparently doesn’t permit rolling back to a prior version of the Microsoft web browser once a new version is installed.
Writing on the MSDN website, Jane Maliouta said people who are trying out Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and [...]

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 [...]

Flawed Safari browser endangers Windows users
Not the sort of headline Apple wants to see – especially in light of the recent Safari software update controversy – reports of security flaws in the Windows version of the recently released Safari 3.1 web browser.
An address-bar spoofing flaw was discovered by Argentinian researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian, who [...]

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 [...]

Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP draws slowly nearer. Microsoft have now made XP SP3, Release Candidate 2, available for download (for the daring) from their website. Full release could be as far away as June this year though.
Windows XP SP3 was originally expected as early as 2006, but has been pushed back several [...]

One Windows Per Child
Here we go.
The One Laptop per Child Foundation plans to start producing [] notebooks next month running a version of the Linux open source operating system. It hopes to eventually manufacture millions a year for school children in developing countries.

But Microsoft isn’t happy about the Linux Operating System part of the plan.
The [...]