Tag: Microsoft Windows

• Computer programming centre-right lovers of Swedish meatballs

  According to YouGov (the UK’s largest polling company) that is what typical lovers of Linux are – though it’s based on just 272 individual profiles (out of 200,000 or so members of YouGov’s panel). Oh, and they are blokes. More at https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Linux/demographics (YouGov made at least some of their profiling data available online this morning […]

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  Adrian McMenamin

  November 17, 2014

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  Apple, Bill Gates, branding, computer scientists, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, polling, YouGov

• The year of Linux on the desktop?

  For many who work or research in the industry, desktop computers have an “end of history” feel about them. The improvements in technology that allow chip makers to double the number of transistors in a given area of silicon every 18 – 24 months are still there but “Moore’s Law” as we understand it – […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 10, 2012

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  Apple, Desktop computer, Desktop Linux, European Commission, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Windows 8

• Should we all be worried by Windows 8?

  It is not so long ago that I wrote here that Microsoft were no longer the enemies of free software. News I have read today makes me wonder if I was worse than premature in that judgement. Allegedly, Microsoft are proposing to make it more or less impossible to boot your computer with any software […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 21, 2011

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  Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows 8

• Dennis Ritchie

  Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and the Unix operating system, has died. If great men stand on the shoulders of giants, then Ritchie was one of the greatest giants of all. Unix (including Mac OSX), Linux and Windows were or are written in C. (In Windows’s case it has now moved […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 13, 2011

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  C++, Dennis Ritchie, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Ritchie, Unix

• In your face, fan bois

  There is something very annoying about Apple users: they pay twice as much as the rest of us for stuff and then think that they are the clever and cool ones. How does that work? Well, here’s some bad news for them: their browser is almost certainly broken. If you look at the graphs on […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  August 18, 2011

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  Apple, IPhone, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Operating Systems, Safari, Web browser, WebKit