Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft Corp’

A look back in time: we often forget, remember MS-DOS? OMG! I am talking about this in modern 2011

Hey! Remember Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS)? Well, I remember it. It is very interesting how users forget about the old software days, and the cool advertisement. Nobody was thinking about climate issues, or even talking about economy crisis, I miss the old 70s, 80s, and the 90s. I am wondering how fun it must [...]

OMG! The Windows 8 Task Manager

WOW, the new Windows 8 Task Manager (taskmgr.exe) has really changed, and very dramatically, a big change. The new taskmgr.exe looks really awesome, extremely nice, and easy to use. Below are a few screenshots: Figure A: Windows 8 Task Manager fewer details (Image from Microsoft). Figure B: Windows 8 Task Manager showing more details. Great [...]

European commission: Time to sue Microsoft and make money!

There have been some comments about how Microsoft implemented secure boot and unfortunately these seemed to synthesize scenarios that are not the case so we are going to use this post as a chance to further describe how UEFI enables secure boot and the options available to PC manufacturers. The most important thing to understand [...]