Posts by stewrogers

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

Peak Microsoft is the short-lived Windows phone. They already had a decent product in Windows mobile, but then an arrogant lack of innovation caused it to fall behind when, first Blackberry, then Apple and Google raced right past them, so they bought Nokia and produced the actually fantastic Windows Phone, brilliant devices - then even had a funeral for iphone. Got next to Zero traction because they were so late to the game and ultimately wrote off the whole division....

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Re: The interesting part

Trump probably tried to put tariffs on them

To solve compatibility issues, Microsoft would quietly patch other people's code

I wonder would they have a go at patching winsqlite3.dll used in a couple of built in apps in Windows 11, just for old times sake.

Cybercrooks ripped the wheels off at Jaguar Land Rover. Here's how not to get taken for a ride

At the very least remove their staff from the password reset process.

Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

Are you really Lord Elpuss?

#namesmatter

As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away

NOOOOOOOOO!!!

Yea this sucks. For all the Bluetooth replacements out there, they don't match the functionality of the Chromecast audio. I have a couple of them, and they are keeping some old (but still great) hifi equipment relevant and its really rather depressing that that has gone away. It's bad enough Google took the decision to stop producing them without killing the ones out there already.

Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models

government.