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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, of course, is that users cannot customize...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-20-2009
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 the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-28-2009
The 'blame anyone but Apple cadre,' Part 217: AT&T

So AT&T is finally adding MMS support to the iPhone 3G/3GS on September 25, about two months after Apple first announced the feature and other international wireless carriers provided it. Yep, AT&T sucks. And I should know, I've been using this horrible network, first in "EDGE"...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-04-2009
Misunderstandings abound about the 'Windows Phones' branding. Head's up: Nothing has changed. Nothing.

I guess it's not just the desktop version of Windows that people are confused about these days. But at least this time it's not Microsoft's fault. Over the past few days, a number of news reports have sprung up claiming that Microsoft was getting rid of the Windows Mobile brand and was changing...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-02-2009
Ubuntu Says Microsoft's Netbook Claims are True

Chris Kenyon from Ubuntu sponsor Canonical has posted a rebuttal of sorts to Microsoft's netbook market share claims, which it calls "FUD." Most of it is an opinion piece, so let's just jump straight to the relevant bits. It requires a lot of cut and paste, because he intersperses little...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-15-2009
Dell dumps smart phone plans

I railed against Dell's unnecessary $2000-and-up MacBook Air clone, the Adamo, the other day. Today, I salute another bit of Dell news because this time they're actually making some sense . Dell's anticipated effort to release a mobile phone has stalled after suffering from "a lack of...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-23-2009
Dell Adamo. Spare me

I just wanted to post a short comment about the Dell Adamo , which is Dell's entry into the "my computer is smaller and more expensive than your computer" sweepstakes. That is, this epic waste of time is meant to compete with Apple's epic waste of time, the Macbook Air. JCXP explains...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-19-2009
Microsoft's business model is done

John C. Dvorak shoots for controversial but pulls a Michael Moore and gets his facts wrong: I've been playing with one of many new systems that are hitting the market which allow the user to quickly boot the machine and go directly to a small version of Linux rather than wait to load Windows. HyperSpace...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-08-2009
Apple: MobileMe actually works on Windows now. No, really

One of my big complaints about the iPhone and then MobileMe was that Windows/Outlook syncing was horrifically bad and it was painfully clear that the Walt Mossberg/David Pogues of the world had never even tested these products together, not even once. Apparently, neither had Apple. Yesterday, almost...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-11-2009
How to fix Windows Mobile

This is an interesting if misguided article and, coincidentally, I met with the Windows Mobile folks just this week, so it’s good timing as well: In recent months, Microsoft's mobile strategy has hit a rough patch. In the third quarter, iPhone maker Apple shipped more smartphones than all 56 device...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-12-2008

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