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A Microsoft Corp. executive last year said the software company made a mistake by lowering the minimum technical requirements needed to run Windows Vista, a decision he said was made to help Intel Corp. meet its quarterly earnings, according to internal emails disclosed this week.The emails provide a glimpse into how Microsoft executives and hardware partners grappled with technical glitches and
Interesting!! Why we try to ‘keep options open’? When faced with a lot of choices, humans try to keep choices open rather than concentrating on a single choice which can maximize the returns…The experiments involved a game that eliminated the excuses we usually have for refusing to let go. In the real world, we can always tell ourselves that it???s good to keep options open.You don???t even know
Read on this Wired.com article – Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies ??? the shifting of costs from one product to another ??? but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast. It’s as if the price of steel had dropped so close to zero that King Gillette could give away both razor and blade, and make
I strongly feel that the Disaster Management is going to play a major role in coming years. While we anticipate the disasters in traditional forms like natural disasters or wars, newer and newer forms will emerge as a massive threat to humanity. Here is a good news – Norwegian government is planning to cave in seeds that humans need in an Arctic vault. Though this a pretty old news, it is in
Ok…This is my first post from the inbuilt blog editor of Flock 1.1, the social browser. I have been using firefox for ages now mainly due to the enhancements available for Firefox. The extensions, skins and tweaks available for Firefox far exceed any of the other available browser today. Further Firefox is also good on the front of speed. On the downside,?? Firefox is a memory-guzzler – it
Google reader – you work ‘within’ your main browser. With FeedDemon, you add another browser just for reading the feed and open the links in feeds. So I have IE7 and Firefox and FeedDemon – open at the same time (first 2 I can’t skip).FeedDemon – one thing which was decisive was Offline Capabilities of the reader. With the Google Gears, though you add offline capabilities to Google Reader, most
Reality Is A Farce... 