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CNET Blogger Pukes on Microsoft

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July, 2008 (, , )
Posted in Microsoft

CNET’s Ina Fried disses Microsoft for trying to centralize hardware and software compatibility with Vista. Huh? Today, Apple does the same with it’s MobileMe/.Mac service, yet there’s no uproar about how scandalous this is.

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Click-Wheel Interface Coming to Windows 7?

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May, 2008 (, , )
Posted in Featured, Tech News, Windows 7, Windows Vista

A lot of the screenshots that have been popping up lately are most likely souped up for conceptional purposes, but one thing certainly returns steadily: the click-wheel-like interface. Usually the Windows Logo Orb is seated in the center of a wheel with numerous icons surrounding it. Is this the future of Windows?

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First look: Windows 95 !

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March, 2008 (, , , )
Posted in Featured, Windows Vista

Windows 95, codenamed Chicago, has finally been released! It is the most exciting and promising release of the Windows Operating System ever. Along with it, Microsoft introduces 32-bit computing for the first time and with it, is planning to replace MS-DOS and Windows 3.1(1). At last, anyone with or without prior computing skills can easily [...]

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Free File: Taskbar Shuffle

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March, 2008 (, , , )
Posted in Software Picks (2 Comments)

Super control-freaks can finally manage the order of their Windows taskbar-buttons.

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Music made with Windows 98 & XP sounds only

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February, 2008 (, , )
Posted in Fun

The alert sounds that ship with Windows may enervate you after years and years of listening to them, but they’ve also found a new purpose. On YouTube, a little song was composed, comprised of merely Windows 98 and XP sounds.
It’s just as ingenious as it is frighteningly nostalgic. You have been warned.

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