Some slightly rambling thoughts on the extremely contrasting Ubuntu and Windows methods of keeping your operating system and associated software up to date.
TL;DR Ubuntu offers a far superior experience.
This morning I happened to see Microsoft claiming that modern.ie has saved developers 1,000,000 hours of work. Are they kidding us?
It appears to be time for another rant…
I’ve been sharing a storage disk between Windows and Ubuntu for the past while and randomly encounter the following issue sometimes when I boot up Ubuntu and try to mount my Windows storage drive.
Exposing the total lack of reliability on a fresh installation of Windows 8.
Microsoft’s Skype “Home” view is broken – usually all I see is an eternally-spinning blue loading animation. Not a good thing to see upon application launch.
What is wrong with Microsoft and their ability to name products – why are they such a horrid mouthful.
Placing an anchor absolutely on top of another element to make an entire area a clickable link does not work well in Internet Explorer. The text underneath breaks through the overlaying anchor and it is no longer clickable.
In this video, Brian Boyko delivers a very strong indictment against Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 8.
Love Film not working? Netflix giving a DRM error N8156-6003? It’s a weird issue with Silverlight and here’s how to fix it.
Microsoft have announced their first push into hardware in the PC market. It’s called “Surface” and, well, it looks pretty good actually. It appears to be well built, and the approach with the Pro version (running full Windows 8 Pro) is exactly one of the reasons I’ve been holding off on any sort of tablet […]
