If you’ve followed my blog for a while, then you might remember my Windows XP vs. Vista series. It was a reply to one of the most popular Vista bashers, Randall C. Kennedy, who published an in-depth “comparison” between XP and Vista on InfoWorld. It was no surprise that such an article would appear on [...]
My “Vista goodbye” article evoked emotions among some 4sysops readers. Publicly defending Vista is still a dangerous thing to do. I can understand that very well, considering how many headaches must have been caused by malfunctioning device drivers, high hardware demands and broken applications. I have been a Vista advocate since its first beta version. [...]
In a few weeks, Vista will be history. Even though, it will still be running for quite some time on many machines out there, most IT pros will focus now on Windows 7. Of course, no IT pro will start using Vista now. But I am sure many are still running XP on their own [...]
Long-term readers might remember my rants against all these Vista bashers out there. It is time for yet another outburst in this series. It is this sentence that I have read so many times in the last weeks: “Windows 7 is what Vista should have been” that leaves me no other choice. A recent Computerworld [...]
You probably know Microsoft’s “I am a PC” marketing campaign. While I was playing with Windows 7′s new ISO burning feature, I realized that I am not just a PC. Let me explain why. This feature is yet another tiny Windows enhancement that is particularly interesting for IT pros. To use it, all you have [...]
By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Mon, February 22, 2010 - 13 comments