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• There's a Velociraptor in my PC

  A Western Digital VelociRaptor , that is. My desktop PC is almost two years old now. (I purchased it back in October 2006.) It's an HP Pavilion m7690y tower machine with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, so it's getting a bit long in the tooth... Posted Aug 31 2008, 04:45 PM by pthurrott with | with 46 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Home Server, Green computing, Personal, Digital media, x64, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• FY09 Strategic Update

  Only Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer could send such an important message out and give it a subject line that boring. But you'll want to read this one. I've highlighted some bits I feel are particularly interesting. From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Wednesday... Posted Jul 25 2008, 10:00 AM by pthurrott with | with 69 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mac, Windows 7, XP, Windows Mobile, Windows Live, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary, Virtualization

• You know MobileMe is a piece of junk when ... (Updated)

  This one reads like a Jeff Foxworthy (of "you know you're a redneck when..." fame) joke. As in, you know MobileMe is a piece of @#$% when even Walter Mossberg, the world's most prominent support of Apple products, can't find anything... Posted Jul 24 2008, 10:16 AM by pthurrott with | with 113 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, Alt. Windows, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• Microsoft's online gamble could be smart bet

  Now, here's something I can agree with wholeheartedly. In fact, I had exactly the same reaction: As I listened to financial analysts grumble about how Microsoft continues to pour its hard-earned software profits back into its online services effort... Posted Jul 18 2008, 03:50 PM by pthurrott with | with 65 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• MobileMe launch delayed ... Where's the outrage?

  Apple shut down its .Mac service yesterday to launch MobileMe and then ... ran into problems. As of today, MobileMe is still not available, and of course .Mac is down as well . So I have to wonder. Where's Ina Fried's scathing blog attack on Apple... Posted Jul 10 2008, 12:39 PM by pthurrott with | with 72 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• Questions and comments about Firefox 3, IE 8, the future of Web browsers, cloud computing, and how it all comes together

  So it's always amusing to me when the mainstream press tries to cover tech products, but I was particularly interested in this one since I'm in the middle of writing my own Firefox 3 review. I think that terms like "innovative" are thrown... Posted May 26 2008, 01:29 PM by pthurrott with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Internet, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary