In his New York Times op-ed piece yesterday, former Microsoft vice president Dick Brass commented on Redmond’s inability to make the kind of hardware that people want to buy: Not everything that has gone wrong at Microsoft is due to internecine warfare. Part of...
I read today’s op-ed piece in the New York Times by former Microsoft vice president Dick Brass today with great interest. Entitled “Microsoft’s Creative Destruction,” the piece argues that Microsoft has created a “dysfunctional corporate...
I’ve been using Windows 7 on several machines since the beta first came out, and now I’ve upgraded those installations to the Release Candidate, which is still available for a preview that will expire next spring. (The official expiration date is June 7,...
After I installed the SP3 update on three Windows XP machines, I discovered that Microsoft Update no longer worked. The updates would be downloaded, but the installations would always fail. Click below if you’d like to know how I solved this problem. After...
