The more I use Windows 8, the more I HATE IT. The shiny new part – Modern UI – is nice but still very raw especially in terms of integrating with the old. Yes it has the foundational potential to beat iOS, but at this point Modern UI is perhaps 10% of what it needs [...]
Tags: Windows 8, Windows 8 sucks
Posted on May 14th, 2013 in OS, Uncategorized, Windows | No Comments »
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77043.html A researcher finally figures out a way to get “32-bit Windows desktop applications”(*) to run on Surface RT by defeating an artificial constraint on the device and what does Microsoft do? Well, they “praise” the researcher but want to close the hole that allows it!!! Instead of trying to follow what Steve Jobs did [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2013 in OS, Windows | No Comments »
Windows 8 marks the start of the end of the ancient workhorse API – Win32. Win32, along with COM, underlies all other APIs – including .NET – that Windows developers have used. MFC, ATL, COM itself (if I’m not mistaken), etc… these all depend on Win32 underneath. Starting with Windows 8, all new development going [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2011 in Linux, OS, OS X, Programming, Windows | No Comments »
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-15.html After digesting the above, I’m suddenly a bit apprehensive about whether Microsoft know what they’re doing or not. The fact that they keep changing their API surface suggests, in fact, that they don’t. In here we read that “Microsoft says it ‘reimagined’ every aspect of Windows, this new runtime, or application model” which seems [...]
Tags: Cocoa, WinRT
Posted on October 23rd, 2011 in OS, OS X, Programming, Windows | No Comments »
Let’s study the pros and cons. Apple have the sanest API/platform evolution and the best IDE. I have hated IDEs ever since they first came out in the 90s. Xcode circa 3.2 is the first IDE I will deign to use and frankly I find it amazing. Many reviews criticized Xcode for being crappy compared [...]
Tags: Apple
Posted on October 23rd, 2011 in OS, OS X, Programming, Windows | No Comments »
I have been quite excited about Windows Phone 7 since it was first leaked to press, and now with its release, I am frankly, quite disappointed with the outcome. Virtually all the complaints leveled against the iPhone apply to Windows Phone 7 handsets as well! e.g. No multitasking, No Flash (and no Silverlight either!), crappy [...]
Tags: Apple, Cloud, Google, Microsoft, Search
Posted on October 14th, 2010 in iPhone and iPod, OS, Programming, Web, Windows | No Comments »
For Windows to have any chance of competing with Android and iOS, Microsoft should rethink their strategy on the tablet/slate form factor. Hardware-wise, the Asus EEE Pad proves that it is possible to run Win7 on a pad/slate. However there are two other important things that distinguish the slate experience from the desktop experience which [...]
Tags: android, ios, Microsoft, mobile os, windows 7, windows phone 7
Posted on September 28th, 2010 in Hardware, iPhone and iPod, Windows | No Comments »
When installing Windows and OS X side by side using Apple’s recommended Boot Camp technique, you can only use one partition for Windows. If, like me, you need multiple partitions for Windows, you have to do it another way. The first thing to understand is that Boot Camp Assistant is not at all necessary for [...]
Tags: GPT, macbook, MBR, modbook, OS X, partitioning, windows 7
Posted on November 15th, 2009 in Modbook, OS, OS X, Windows | No Comments »
I had a nasty time trying to get the PHP module to run under Apache 2.2 in Windows 7 x64. Specifically, I kept getting a “php_mysql.dll could not be loaded” error. After some sleuthing, decided to use Dependency Walker to help figure out what was wrong. It turns out that I had installed the 64-bit [...]
Tags: 64-bit Windows, DLLs, Windows 7 x64
Posted on November 7th, 2009 in OS, Windows | No Comments »
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