08 July 06 - 01:49Microsoft is a software pirate!
Oooh! I simply love this one!
PC Welt (a German magazine) carries this amazing article titled "
Did Microsoft use Warez for Windows XP?". For the uninitiated
warez refers to
pirated /
cracked illegal copies of
software. You can read the original article in German
here or the English version
here.
In a nutshell, someone at
Microsoft used
pirated software to make some of the audio files for the
Windows Media Player tour. What's ironic is that
Microsoft, the quintessential retailer of proprietary "closed source"
software and a rabid
anti-piracy advocate has been caught in the act of using a
pirated copy of a US $400 audio encoding
software.
And don’t take my word for it, see for yourself: -
Open notepad in Windows.
Select open and goto your Windows Directory (usually C:\Windows\).
Open the "Help" sub-directory.
Open the "Tours" sub-directory.
Open the "WindowsMediaPlayer" sub-directory.
Open the "Audio" sub-directory.
Open the "Wav" sub-directory.
Select any one of those files.
Instead of playing them in MediaPlayer or any other audio software, open the file in Notepad. Now scroll all the way to the bottom.
See those strings "SoundForge 4.5" and "Deepz0ne"? Yep, this means that the file was created with a cracked version of Soundforge, cracked by a cracker called Deepz0ne. Good show Microsoft! Always knew we could rely on you guys for ethical business practices!
LOL
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09 June 06 - 01:20Software Wars
A caricature of the strategic map for the ongoing software wars... It would be funny, if it weren't for FUD, SCO and the other illegal WMD's being employed by one side... hmmm, reminds one of "Dubyaman" and his blatantly unethical style of doing things!
Check out the original
here.
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08 June 06 - 20:10Stop IE!!
STOP IE! If you're tired of hearing your friends and acquaintances telling you that Internet Explorer is probably the best thing since sliced bread, look no further! This is an entire site listing out the many flaws in Internet Explorer - bugs, security vulnerabilities, non-compliance to web standards etc. Of course you can find all of this information at other websites and online forums BUT number ONE - it is all in one place AND number TWO they point you to the alternatives available, in a very objective manner.
Check it out here.
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15 May 06 - 00:54Is Microsoft ready to make its first major fumble?
Interesting post titled "Is Microsoft's Vista the new QuarkXPress?". The author makes a direct comparison with how Quark missed the bus when Apple released the new Mac OS X with Microsoft and its fumblings with its next Windows version code named Vista. He begins with "after a decade
of dominance, the company (Quark) stumbled, leaving the door open for serious
competition just as Adobe was introducing a strong competing product.
Is Microsoft about to do the same?" and goes on to elaborate in detail how the two situations are so very similar...
Overall an excellent piece!
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