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Vijay Narayanan on February 4th, 2009

So, just like they did with Vista, Microsoft is planning to release multiple versions of Windows 7. In an interesting post on TechCrunch, Devin Coldewey clinically takes apart this strategy. The section I loved the most was: Can you imagine a Microsoft hot dog stand where they use the same wiener and bun in every [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on February 2nd, 2009

http://code.google.com/p/blackgold/issues/detail?id=3 The greatest bug report ever. Haven’t laughed like this in ages!

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Vijay Narayanan on January 8th, 2009

Guess what, I received a surprise New Year gift today. All the way from Praha in the Czech Republic. A limited edition NetBeans 10th Anniversary T-shirt from Sun Microsystems! NetBeans turned 10 this past year, and to commemorate this, the folks had conducted the NetBeans Decathlon, in which yours truly was one of the winners. (I [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 7th, 2009

Steve Ballmer announced today that “techies” could download and test the beta version of Windows 7, the latest OS from Microsoft, starting Friday. I don’t have a spare computer to try that. But even if I did, I won’t have the guts to do so. Having endured Vista over the past couple of years, I [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 7th, 2009

While I was shocked at the goings-on at Satyam Computers as reported in the media over the past few weeks, today’s news that the founder and Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju has admitted to grossly inflating the books comes a thunderbolt. As a shareholder in Satyam Computers, I am appalled at the moral bankruptcy of this [...]

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