Posts by doodleMonkey

Microsoft, the VW family sedan of IT, wants to be tech's new Rolls-Royce

Microsoft the VW of IT? That's very wishful thinking; more like the Kia, Hyundai, British Leyland or Talbot of IT.

Microsoft to Windows 10 consumers: You'll get updates LIKE IT or NOT

I wonder who pays for the data connection Windows won't ask you to use when it draws down the updates ... ?

The BBC wants to slap a TAX on EVERYONE in BLIGHTY

...And ..

Over the last few years the BBC has moved and acted (or not acted) to position itself so it can justify a blanket fee regardless of TV ownership.

Cleverly and dishonestly, it has position the iplayer without any actual controls (other than very basic geographical ones) to who can view content. For example there's nothing stopping a person without a TV license watching Iive TV on iplayer.. yet all it would take would be a 'Enter the serial from your TV license' to access live BBC content. Not foolproof but at least a step. Cynically, BBC has made no attempt to restrict usage and hence now uses this justify they are universal.

Basically a BBC land grab on the Internet and media.

Really?

Laughable that there's such desperation to keep the BBC as a public funded organisation; yet more vital services such as health care slowly get privatised. Whatever you think of the BBC, no deaths would directly occur from it not existing. If you're okay with private health care; why would n't you be okay with media being privately funded? If it's down to populism degrading perceived quality; isn't that just cultural snobbery?

Lenovo: We SWEAR we're done with bloatware, adware and scumware

Ahhh Lenovo

Actually changed my buying strategy because of Lenovo. I had two Lenovo 'Thinkpads'; which massively disappointed me in terms of their quality, performance and longevity. So this time round I bought the cheapest Dell I could find and have been pleasantly surprised (got what I paid for, but its ok).

Lenovo listening to customers is an amusing concept; they have a reputation for poor customer service and ignoring customers.. which was my own experience.

They also have a reputation for pre-loading a lot of software and utilities, some of it useful to be fair. So it would be interesting to see how clean they supply machines in the future. Not that I'll be trying them; that ship sailed a long time ago. The Thinkpad is dead. Long live something else.