It is being reported that Microsoft maybe building an Internet centric non-Windows Operating System. This operating system will eliminate the dependance on hardware as is the case with the present day operating systems. An incubator project codenamed “Midori” is being headed by Eric Rudder, senior VP for Technical Strategy at Microsoft.

Even though Microsoft announced the retirement of Windows XP, it is still pretty much popular with the users. According to a Forrester survey, Windows XP is still the most widely used operating system with as much as 87.1 % of the companies surveyed using it. XP Hurting Vista Badly:

According to a recent Forrester survey, less than 10 percent of the 2,300 companies surveyed use Vista. Forrester says 87.1 percent of companies surveyed continue to use Windows XP.

As per my analysis of the server logs of my site/blog and the general analysis of the data available on the web, I have found one thing and one thing only. By delaying in bringing Windows Vista to the consumers, Microsoft may have sounded the death knell for it’s latest operating system even before it’s launch. Actually the non-availability of a new version to the best version of Windows to-date, Windows XP, has hurt not only the consumers but Microsoft too. The result is easily visible before you. Windows XP reigns supreme while Vista struggles to make friends with consumers.

Well, I’m sure everyone of you out there has Windows Media Player installed on his PC (ofcourse, it’s bundled along with Windows). What version you have installed on your PC is another issue. I assume before continuing with this article that you already have Windows Media Player version 8 or above installed on your pretty PC and are looking for more.

The future of the PCs is here. A demo of the next version of Windows, codenamed Windows 7, was recently given by Microsoft Corporation. It is the first time that the much speculated Operating System has been shown ever since Bill Gates confirmed that the next version of Windows is codenamed Windows 7!

I certainly hope that the successor to Windows Vista is better and delivered sooner than when Vista was launched (after 6 years in the making).

With so many confusing editions of Vista around, people get Home Premium. While undoubtedly, the best edition of Vista is the Ultimate Edition. I came across a good article that let’s you add features to your Home Premium Edition of Vista.

Here’s the great article on how to make your Windows Vista Home Premium a lot more like Windows Vista Ultimate.

This articles provides us some important update on patches being released by Microsoft for remote code execution vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and Internet Explorer and other software that can allow a hacker to take control of a user’s computer system, Microsoft releasing nine patches:

The patches will fix remote code execution attack vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Virtual PC.

Of the nine bulletins expected, six will be labeled “critical,” with the remaining three ranked “important.” Vulnerabilities slated to be fixed by eight of the nine updates, however, have been pegged as remote code executable, a sign that the bugs are dangerous, and if exploited, could easily allow a PC to be hijacked by hackers.

It seems Microsoft has done it again in terms of achieving user (dis) satisfaction with it’s latest Operating System, Windows Vista.

I am amazed at how hard the folks at the big dubby have worked in order to make things harder for us hapless users. Don’t mind their advertisements and various slogans including this one: “The easiest Windows yet!”.

The easiest Window yet, yes, but from my ass-point. Yeah, right. The only Windows they did make easier than the previous ones was the friendly Windows XP.

I mean, how many of you had faced problems shifting over to Windows XP? I mean to say forget about getting used to the new UI, just getting familiar with the general operations of the OS.

Isn’t an operating system supposed to make the operation of a PC more easier so that we users don’t have to look at how to send binary command to the hardware?

Why am I so pissed you say? Well sample an operation that we will perform in Windows XP and Windows Vista to see how easy is easy?

To uninstall a program what should we be doing?

Windows XP Home/Professional: To uninstall, go to Start Menu > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. Select the program you want to remove, press uninstall and voila! We have uninstalled the program.

Windows Vista (Any edition) : To uninstall, go to Start Menu > Control Panel > [Search for the right option unless you can't find one and then call your friend who has been through this process before and then he tells you the answer] Programs and Features (They couldn’t come up with any more creative name, in effect just confusing the user all the more).

Yesterday, I went to see what my colleague was doing and here we had him struggling in Windows Vista’s so called “friendly interface” just to configure his ASP.NET project to work with IIS 7.0 (it comes with Vista).

As part of it’s simplification process, the folks at Microsoft thought lets do something more innovative and change the IIS Services Administrator interface and options hierarchy. They then went ahead and created the IIS Service Manager. This has all the more made the task difficult.

If we wanted to make some changes we weren’t able to do so with any more ease than working with Windows NT!

So there you go. The easiest Windows yet, they say! Well we think otherwise oh brethren at Microsoft.

It seems Microsoft is getting ready to launch beta1 of the first service pack of it’s much anticipated Windows Vista Operating System. The final version may ship by the end of 2007. According to reports, the expected date of Vista SP1 beta1 is 16th July 2007, give or take a couple of days.

Let us see.

News via Mary Jo Foley’s article.

It seems that Apple, Inc. is finally waking up to the battle call. After it allowed the Windows operating system to run on Macs powered by Intel via the Bootcamp manager, it has now released a beta of the very popular Safari browser (it is still a beta release).

I applaud Apple for this. Actually, this should have been done a long time back. The execs. up there right under Steve Jobs didn’t really care before since the sales of the iPod had brought the company back from red.

I hope it will serve our interests by saving us from the trouble of using Internet Explorer at all!