We have 4 Windows boxes at home. Three are HP 32-bit notebooks and the other one is an HP 64-bit machine – mine. We bought all 4 machines during the course of this year and all came with Windows Vista. We have had no end of trouble with Vista. The machines work fine, but a lot of applications generate exceptions and hang under Vista that work fine on my XP box. So I decided to believe Microsoft’s advertizing (probably a big mistake) that indicates that Windows 7 has been thoroughly tested.
For the most part, this upgrade went smoothly even if it took an inordinate amount of time. The machines are more stable than they were before and they seem to be faster. Internet Explorer performs much better and even Firefox is behaving pretty decently.
So far so good.
Archive for November, 2009
Windows 7 upgrade experience
Nov 15
In a previous post, I said I would post an example that demonstrates the use of the OpenEdge Dynamic OpenClient. Well here is the Java version of it. This post is an extensive discussion of the example and how it is structured. Enjoy.
Google Chrome OS vs Microsoft Windows
Nov 22
Posted by Bruce Gruenbaum in Commentary | No Comments
I was looking through all my favorite web sites for news on Friday evening when I ran into two news reports that I thought were very interesting. Microsoft showed up at their Professional Developers Conference in LA with a half-baked presentation about Internet Explorer 9 that just happened to make press the day before Google announced the release of Google Chrome OS as open source code. Is this a coincidence or an emergency reaction to the realization that Chrome OS could be a very serious threat?
Tags: Chrome, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Google, Google Chrome Browser, Google Chrome OS, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, SaaS, Software as a Service, Web 2.0, Windows, Windows 7