Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tidbits

Microsoft Bashing or Truth-Telling? 

The designers of a new laptop set their goal to create a mobile computer that will be easy to operate. My favorite quote in the article has to do with the fact that originally the designers of Alex (the name for this laptop) were going to base everything on Windows. However, "The biggest problem with Microsoft is badly-written software - the operating system allows you to write software badly unlike Mac or Linux..."

You can read the whole article here:

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