Windows 7 and the Tablet PC’s

If Microsoft has to wait until Windows 8, plus support for ARM CPU’s. before it gets deep into the Tablet market, then it may lose the tablet market if they are not careful. Everybody seems to want an IPad (not me) and that could hurt future Windows 7 ( or 8 ) tablets. Now this viewpoint is what I keep

Read more

Valuable Resources Wasted!

If you are a programmer, sooner or later you will find yourself in a discussion with other programmers (or computer professionals) about how “such and such” technology is obsolete and should simply be trashed. I get criticised because I still support Windows 95/98/ME. Now maybe I am “penny pincher” or maybe I simply don’t want to see the world turned

Read more

Performance in Windows

I downloaded a demo of a freeware Ribbon Control from Code Project the other day and the experience was interesting. I develop software on my main PC, which is a number of years old. It has a 2.5 ghz Celeron CPU, NVidia Graphics card, 768 meg Ram and is running Windows XP Home (sp2). In my opinion this is a

Read more
1 54 55 56 57 58 66