Windows To Run On The iPhone

In what is sure to cause the explosion of many Mac heads, Citrix has announced that the iPhone will be able to run Windows apps. It will not be a true Windows OS running on the iPhone, as it will be using a Citrix Receiver. This will be remote screen software that connects to a PC, giving you the illusion that you are running Windows. Citrix claims that this will give iPhone users full Windows capability, including “cut and paste” within Widows mind you.

[Citrix via Gizmodo]

Vista RC1 To Come Sooner Than Expected!

Well, as someone who "wants to believe" that Vista can be a great product, I am excited to hear that any of us can get a release candidate the 2nd week of December. The other good new from ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley is that we aren't going to have to wait till mid 2008 for SP1; it's coming out early 1st quarter 2008. Well at least that's where Microsoft is aiming. Check it out.

New Windows Vista Ad

HAHAHAHA!!!

You gotta watch this!!!! Thanks Blimp TV!!

Readers rip writer about the cost of running Vista dencetly

It has become apparent that if you don't have something nice to say about Microsoft, don't say it at all. I've been in Microsoft's corner about a lot of things, but I don't think it's right to rip a guy who thinks your OS should have a better rating on a brand new $1,500 laptop.

One of the writers over there recounted a story in which his sister bought a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista installed that had a Windows Experience Index score of 3.3—considering the laptop cost $1,500, shouldn’t the score be a little higher? As it turns out, the graphics card memory was responsible for the low score. His main point: buying a Vista PC shouldn’t have to be a $2,000+ affair.

And that’s when the fanboys tore him apart.
And that's saying a lot coming from me!!!

The main point was just that machines that play nice with Vista shouldn’t cost as much as they do. I have a Vista laptop and I agree with the writer, it shouldn't run you an arm and a leg to get Vista to run well on your system.

Read the craziness after the jump.

How not to demo Windows Vista

I don't think that Best Buy had this in mind when putting together a demo of Windows Vista.

The dreaded 'Blue Screen of Death' is shown clearly here, and one would think that someone would either reboot the thing or turn it off.

Oh well.

The customers definitely won’t be seeing any of the “Stunning”, “Breakthrough”, or “Entertaining” features on this one.

Vista draining laptop batteries, patience

Vista draining laptop batteries, patience
By Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: May 4, 2007, 4:00 AM PT

Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.

"It's a little scary," said John Wozniak, a distinguished technologist in Hewlett-Packard's notebook engineering department, referring to the work HP needed to do on making Windows Vista more suitable for notebooks.

Read more about the article after the jump.