Category Archives: Mugged By Microsoft

The Last Word

Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Keith

Tom Scocca puts MS Word in it’s place: What makes Word unbearable is the output. Like the fax machine, Word was designed to put things on paper. It was a tool of the desktop-publishing revolution, allowing ordinary computer users to … Continue reading →

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My New Toy

Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Keith

So for a few years now, I’ve been threatening to buy a cheep PC and install Ubuntu on it, just to see what Linux is all about and if it really holds up to the various shiny OSs that Apple … Continue reading →

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Features, Bugs Whatever- Just Give Us Your Money

Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 by Keith

Fortune Magazine: Free software is great, and corporate America [And real people] loves it. It’s often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It’s versatile – it can be customized to perform … Continue reading →

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Microsoft: We Just Don’t Fucking Care

Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 by Keith

Daylight Savings Time is three weeks earlier this year and Microsoft doesn’t much care: For three weeks this March and April, Microsoft Corp. warns that users of its calendar programs “should view any appointments as suspect until they communicate with … Continue reading →

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