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 is strictly for the faithful. :)

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, details of which will be published soon. This process will lock up your ... Read full entry

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 want to roll back to IE6 would need to complete that downgrade before installing ... 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

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 reported it to the Danish security company Secunia on Monday. He ... 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

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 times as the bulk of Microsoft's energy has been focused on Windows Vista. The ... Read full entry

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 thought of all those children growing up without Windows is obviously ... Read full entry