Apparently it’s the 20th anniversary of Windows 95. Love it or hate it (most will say they hate it) it was an important development in home computing. Yes, Apple/Commodore/Xerox et al did it first but they didn’t open up the market the way Microsoft did. In many ways that was what MS always did best;take someone elses idea and put a marketing juggernaut behind it.
MS Windows
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
” — Bill Gates
No hlp for Win 8
I must apologise in advance as this may contain some nerd rage.
The Myth of the Perfect Sync
Here’s the scenario: I use GoogleMail for email and Google Calendar for… well, calendaring… and all that it entails. I occasionally use KDE Kontact on Linux, but that has subsided somewhat since my love affair with GoogleMail began. Google’s web apps impress me, I must say. I only started using them as a stop-gap measure … Read more