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• Is it OK to Use OEM Windows on Your Own PC? Don't Ask Microsoft

  While researching my most recent article, No OEM For You: Windows 7 OEM Packaging is Not For Individuals , I ran into an issue that I should have foreseen: Microsoft's licensing reads like the Dead Sea Scrolls and you need to be an expert in Aramaic... Posted Nov 15 2009, 08:16 PM by pthurrott with | with 54 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Commentary

• Rafael is Vindicated: Microsoft Did Steal Open Source Code for USB/DVD Tool

  Microsoft just confirmed to me that it has completed an investigation of allegations made by my Windows 7 Secrets co-author, Rafael Rivera, concerning the unauthorized and illegal use of open source code in its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. The software... Posted Nov 13 2009, 05:30 PM by pthurrott with | with 40 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Commentary

• How We Really Designed the Look and Feel of Windows 7

  While the Mac community has been chortling over a supposed Microsoft admission that Windows 7 copies the Mac OS X look and feel, the company decided to set the record straight , or at least provide a more official comment about this claim: An inaccurate... Posted Nov 12 2009, 12:04 PM by pthurrott with | with 85 comment(s) Filed under: Mac, Windows 7, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Talking Windows 7 Upgrade Media with Microsoft

  So I had an in-person discussion yesterday with Microsoft about how its Windows 7 Upgrade media does (or does not) work. I'm going to update my Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media article to include this information, but I wanted to communicate... Posted Nov 04 2009, 12:31 PM by pthurrott with | with 43 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Commentary

• A Bit of Backpedaling and an Apology from Microsoft

  In a very long-winded post, Microsoft's Eric Ligman (he of the "you are probably a pirate" post ) does some furious backpedalling from his previous position on doing clean installs with Windows 7 Upgrade media. That is, where he previously... Posted Nov 02 2009, 04:05 PM by pthurrott with | with 48 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Personal, Commentary

• Windows 7 Workaround Does Not Allow for Multiple Installs with One Product Key

  In the wake of Microsoft's illogical and wrong-headed attack on the so-called Windows 7 installation "hack"--really just a workaround designed to let legitimate Windows customers upgrade their activated copies of XP or Vista to Windows 7... Posted Nov 01 2009, 10:25 AM by pthurrott with | with 46 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Commentary

• Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously.

  I love the self-righteous nature of this little Microsoft post , which quite clearly addresses the "hack" I published the other day without actually providing a link or naming names. Unfortunately, it looks like it is time to have this conversation... Posted Oct 29 2009, 01:30 PM by pthurrott with | with 175 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Commentary

• Microsoft Signature Software

  I was reading another great Todd Bishop article about Microsoft's attempts to sell crapware-less Windows 7-based PCs and came across an interesting bit. Sure, selling crapware-less PCs is great. But Microsoft is formally defining what it calls Microsoft... Posted Oct 28 2009, 10:46 AM by pthurrott with | with 95 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Commentary

• HP's End-Run Around the Windows 7 Starter Limitations

  As you must know by now, Microsoft has severely limited the ways in which you can customized its lowest-end Windows 7 version, Windows Starter Edition. (See Windows 7 Starter? That's How They Get You for more information.) The worst of these limitations... Posted Oct 20 2009, 09:56 PM by pthurrott with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Mobile, Commentary

• And the Number One Reason to Upgrade to Windows 7 is...

  With Windows 7 barreling toward an October 22 worldwide launch, pundits, reviewers, and others are weighing in with their opinions, all of which, tellingly, are quite positive. One interesting recent trend is proclaiming why it is that Windows 7 is so... Posted Oct 13 2009, 09:53 AM by pthurrott with | with 95 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Commentary

• Windows 8 To Be 128-bit Only? LOL

  Wow. I have to admit, the most amazing thing about this rumor is that anyone believed it. I won't single anyone out, but spare me. It's completely and utterly bogus. Obviously. Posted Oct 08 2009, 04:13 PM by pthurrott with | with 48 comment(s) Filed under: Humor, Commentary, Windows 8

• As Expected, Security Software Makers Mock Microsoft's Free AV

  You had to see this one coming. They did it when Microsoft shipped Windows Live OneCare and then raced to create their own me-too products. But what will Symantec and McAfee do now that Microsoft is providing Windows users with free AV? Whine, of course... Posted Sep 30 2009, 11:17 AM by pthurrott with | with 65 comment(s) Filed under: Security, Commentary

• iPhone Apps Store has 2 billionth download

  It's hard to overstate how successful the iPhone Apps Store is. Check out the latest figures from Apple: Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in... Posted Sep 28 2009, 10:46 AM by pthurrott with | with 66 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iPod, Smartphone, Mobile, Commentary

• An Operating System for the Cloud

  You have to be a paid subscriber to read the full article (or just purchase the print version, or pay online per article) but MIT's Technology Review has published a fascinating article about Google's Chrome OS efforts by none other than "Showstoppers"... Posted Sep 27 2009, 12:38 PM by pthurrott with | with 43 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Google: Apple DID reject Google Voice. Thus, Apple DID lie to the FCC

  Google's response ( here it is in PDF format ) to the FCC firmly states that Apple lied, pure and simple: Apple's representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejecte d because Apple believed the application duplicated... Posted Sep 19 2009, 04:04 PM by pthurrott with | with 73 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Google, Cloud computing, Commentary