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bepon TechCrunch Is A Fame-Hungry, Media-Manipulating Hypocrite

My last straw was the fight with Engadget. Mashable will do.

bepon ITunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices

I don't like that ars usually don't test in Windows. At least for the photoshop and itunes articules I have read.

bepon Ballmer Not appearing at WWDC - Microsoft

The whole "just repost some speculation from someone with more speculation" was totally insane.

bepon Dear Microsoft, please use WebKit

Yes, it is a pain to test pages in different browsers. But I would prefer to have competition in the browser front.

bepon Brands That Will Disappear In 2010

The source article, in one page: http://247wallst.com/2009/12/02/the-ten-brands-that-will-dis...

bepon Quake 1 ported to Flash

Quake 1 port to silverlight: http://www.innoveware.com/ql3/QuakeLight.html

bepon [dead]

How many submissions about the same history, but with different authors, do we need?

bepon Software Pirates in China Beat Microsoft to the Punch

It was available from technet weeks ago. So why everyone is surprised?

bepon [dead]

Sadly, what is the consensus by uneducated people under 60? Right wing organizations are not only constituted by old educated people.

And if that was true, the message for my country, Colombia, is hang in there? The amount of violence that is fulled by the illegal drugs is awful. Every day something horrifying is discovered.

Edit: my rebuttal could be seeing as rash. But is just a very frustrating situation with not clear hope in sight.

bepon Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far

It is important. But I am sure Apple would listen more if people voted with their wallets.

bepon Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far

Why people acts like this is news? Apple loves this kind of control.

bepon Why I Removed AVG from my Computer: A tale of abusive anti-virus-ware

This was corrected: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=...

bepon Microsoft submits code to be considered for the Linux Kernel

They are fighting with VMWare in the virtualization market. They need this to have a better support of HyperV in Linux. That means work with the kernel developers and their rules.

bepon Apple are charging you to watch WWDC videos.

Oops. Thanks. I have to improve more in my English.

bepon Apple are charging you to watch WWDC videos.

Do you have any idea how many man-hours go into the preparation of WWDC talks?

Because preparing for TechEd, PDC, WPC is cheap, isn't it? Or their presentations are not any good? The truth is Apple knows that people will pay for those things, so they charge for them.

bepon Microsoft Has Turned The Corner

Windows 7, Azure and Office 2010 are steps in that direction

bepon Would You Miss Windows With a Google Operating System?

One, the applications that matter to people are changing. For many people, programs like web browsers and iTunes are now opened frequently, whereas a decade ago those apps either didn't exist or weren't nearly as relevant. So who is to say that 2 decades of Windows software adds up to much these days?

Ignoring old applications that an enterprise needs to use, the amount of aplications that Windows has in the last 2 years are very vast, and lots of people need them.

Then there's the fact that desktop programs have grown and grown, and most users don't seem to adopt even a fraction of the features. What took two decades to develop will not take two decades to "replace", because only a fraction of the features will really be required for most people to make the jump.

Not everyone uses the same 20% of features. Joel Spolsky said it better than me: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html

Besides, develop the core of the programs doesn't mean they are useful or polish. Or that people who hates change (like the ones who hate the Office ribbon) will like to learn to use another program.

And most of those huge apps should have been stopped at version 2.0. After awhile, big version numbers are meaningless; even for Apple, what on Earth makes the latest iTunes worthy of a version 8? They're still over-hyping the software, but not much is being added, so these old apps are not really as sophisticated as they appear to be.

Versions are usually overhyped, after all they need to sell. That doesn't mean they haven't do anything worthy. The majority of software is very different between 2 major versions.

bepon Interesting thoughts on Windows 7 design from a long-time Mac user

The fact that you don't know any developer that is using Windows doesn't mean that is true. The large array of apps that Windows support is still to massive to consider it dead. I know, you could VM everything, but is not practical to do so.