Well, it looks the evidence is finally in - non-Wintel computer users really do worship Evil! Despite Apple's public attempts to distance itself from it's followers, The Church of Satan are big Macintosh fans. And what about Apple's logo - the apple with a bite taken out of it - a common symbol of an incarnation of the devil... Coincidence? I hardly think so.
posted on 6/27/2001 06:42:19 AM

Tuesday, January 16, 2001

[original date: 2000-01-11] Finally a reasonable solution to the U.S. election confusion. With Industry titans Unisys, Dell, and Microsoft teaming up to provide an electronic voting solution, we can be sure that the silliness we saw in the last presidential elections will be a thing of the past.
posted on 1/16/2001 12:04:01 PM

Although it is dissapointing that 38 law suits filed against Microsoft alleging that MS "overcharged" for it's operating system were thrown out on a technicality instead of on the basis of facts, it is still nice to see Microsoft get a break from the courts for once. Maybe justice isn't quite dead yet.
posted on 1/16/2001 11:42:20 AM

In another attempt to tarnish the good name of Microsoft, some bozos at an online rag called NewsFactor.com are running an article that makes it _look_ like .Microsoft is supporting terrorism.
posted on 1/16/2001 07:36:54 AM

Wednesday, December 20, 2000

The tech industy press has been off-base in the past, but this time they take the cake. In a newarticle they claim that Microsoft's growth and profitability are being dragged down because Microsoft is tied to the PC industry. What on earth were these writers thinking? Microsoft IS the PC industry! Without MS there is no PC industry, what does he want MS to do start writing software for mainframes or handhelds or network computers? The success of the whole information technology sector is based on the success of the marriage between Microsoft software and PC hardware. Long live the PC!
posted on 12/20/2000 06:12:38 AM

Monday, December 04, 2000

The European press appears to be having a lot of fun roasting MS in the court of public opinion prior to the upcoming court case. This time it's the Brits with an article about the recent MS security problem hacker breakin. Not content to describe what ACTUALLY happened they categorize the breakin not as the work of serious terrorist hackers but instead say "The fact was that the world's biggest, richest and most powerful computer company had been hacked by a method so simple it could have been perpetrated by a child." Then they go on to make wildly innacurate and unproveable claims like "The company has been at the centre of almost every big internet, email and virus security breach of recent years, and shows little sign of changing its behaviour to avert future break-ins". Someone should sue these people for slander or libel or whatever they call these in England.
posted on 12/4/2000 02:06:42 PM

[11/03/2000] Looks like ailing game box manufacturer SEGA might be the next beneficiary of Microsoft's much misunderstood corporate charity program. Microsoft's long-time program whereby they buy out or invest heavily in companies with good products who can't turn a profit and then rebrand the products as MS products often gets criticized as some kind of heavy handed attempt to dominate the industry intead of the generous largesse that it really is. As a recent Salon article asks so poignantly "Who will save Sonic the Hedgehog?".
posted on 12/4/2000 01:47:04 PM

[11/02/2000] In a hard-hitting attack on AOL's much vaunted "ease of use", this MSNBC article reveals that MSN's new internet browser is really the best choice for new internet users.
posted on 12/4/2000 01:41:02 PM

A sign that Microsoft under Steve Ballmer is not quite as mighty and invincible as it was under Bill Gates? Microsoft is bowing to pressure from the German's and issuing instructions on how to remove part of Windows 2000 merely because it was written by a software company whose founder is a member of the Church of Scientology. Seems the German's don't like the Church of Scientology. MS should have stood up for it's principles and for freedom of religion and refused to give in, what's next MS telling people how remove Outlook Express because someone is offended if part of it was written by the KKK? What is America coming to?
posted on 12/4/2000 01:40:19 PM

Wednesday, November 29, 2000

Realizing that there is little merit in either case, the anti-American anti-free market European Commission is combining two outstanding cases pending against Microsoft. This is good news, because it means Microsoft won't have to fight two seperate legal battles simultaneously.
posted on 11/29/2000 09:56:34 AM

Monday, November 27, 2000

A new Cnet article about the just released Pentium 4 computers focuses way too much on alleged performance problems running Windows ME and normal everyday office applications (even laughably claiming that a 1.5 Ghz P4 is slower than a 1Ghz P3! Ha!) and hardly even mentions it's screaming graphics and 3-D performance! As if the Operating System has anything to do with the speed of the processor! Get with the ticket Cnet, the future of computing is in 3D applications, NOT in office applications! Anyone can make a chip that runs office applications, but how many can make a chip that runs 3-D circles around it's nearest competitors? Only Intel!
posted on 11/27/2000 07:58:29 AM

Friday, November 24, 2000

More attacks from the Anti-MS fringe. Not able to find anything to attack in MS's battle cruiser configurations they call Windows, the doomed rebels now try to find fault with anything from Redmond - namely the new version of Windows Media Player. Yes, they claim that the media player has security holes you could drive an SUV through. Well, that's not at all true, the "holes" aren't holes at all, they are "hooks" for programmers to use to integrate their software with MediaPlayer. For anything bad to happen the programmer would have to add intentionally malicious code to a MediaPlayer file that other users would have to download and then run themselves. That's called "cooperating with 3rd party developers so they can integrate their products with MS products so the Justice department will get off our backs", how can anyone reasonably call THAT a security hole?
posted on 11/24/2000 08:51:26 PM