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Vijay Narayanan on February 10th, 2009

… is Microsoft’s best stab at a web browser since IE 4.

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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 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 November 13th, 2008

A couple of months ago, when I first downloaded Google Chrome, I was skeptical about whether I would use it at all. I’m (was) a Firefox junkie, and have a number of addons installed, and I love the Firefox experience. I was of the opinion that with its vibrant developer community, Firefox had the “network [...]

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