Tiny Pup Prefers the Window Stay Down, Not That You Care
“Hey, can the window stay down for now? I like it down, thanks.”
You Need a Window In Your Office or Else
Do you work in an office? Do you work in an office with harsh, artificial lighting? Do you know when you will die? Younger than you need to, I bet.
I Want to Marry a Creative Jewish Girl
I'm walking home after I fucked this guy who writes self-loathing poetry and has Yellow Fever, which is ridiculous because nobody walks in LA. Home is currently in Silver Lake, a neighborhood where there's a lot of new job openings for a position called Being Pretty and Prancing Around the Sidewalk. I make the walk…
Romney Doesn't Know Why Airplane Windows Won't Open, Calls The Closed Window Policy 'A Real Problem'
Affluent Imagineer Mitt Romney has some exciting new proposals for the future of airplane design, according to some remarks he made to the L. A. Times at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills Saturday Night.
Man Who Had Sex With Cat Before Throwing It Out Window Headed to Prison
Remember meth-addled Geraldo Martinez, who killed a cat by throwing it out of a seventh-story window after having sex with it? He pleaded guilty to animal torture and received a two-year sentence. The judge dismissed a bestiality charge, because why?
Man Has Sex With Cat Before Throwing It Out Window
Meet Gerardo Martinez! Mr. Martinez is facing "several charges" after admitting to police that he had sex with a cat and then threw it out of a window, killing it. Shockingly, he was high on meth.
Boy Swings Backpack and is Surprised by the Result
The sound of the window breaking and the sight of his alarmed face is priceless; what did he think was going to happen?
Watch the Making of the 2010 Bergdorf Goodman Holiday Windows
This year, Bergdorf Goodman put out a video behind their in-house creative team's process of installing their fantastic holiday windows. It's really interesting to see how the gorgeous displays get made—for both those who've seen them or out-of-towners!
The Windows Phone 7 Helps Castle Solve Crimes Through Heavy Product Placement
This week on Castle, our hero had a handy gadget that helped him to solve the crime — the Windows Phone 7. A close-up of the phone reveals it's been heavily customized and he even uses Bing's voice-activated search function.
Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
Microsoft's Cute-Girl Ad Only Clever Until the Next Price War
With Apple's market share steadily growing, thanks to ads which compare cool Mac kids to schlubby PC people, Microsoft is finally wising up: What it needs to advertise are PCs, not Windows. And cute girls!
Internal emails prove Microsoft lowered Vista standards for Intel
"The real issue is Intel does not have parts to support the April timeframe." Remember the
class-action lawsuit over Vista Capable PCs that lack the graphics power to run Vista's Aero interface? TechFlash has the with Microsoft's internal emails. Intel CEO Paul Otellini personally intervened to convince Microsoft to…
Windows 3.0 finally dead
Microsoft has discontinued licensing for Windows 3.x, the first version of the hated OS to come anywhere near rivaling a Mac. The 1990-era operating system was still in use as "embedded" software in cash registers and ticketing systems. Call me nostalgic, but I miss the limited functionality of those old systems. Now,…
OLPC teaches children to "smoke Windows"
Programmer Richard Stallman's 25-year crusade to banish proprietary software from planet Earth hasn't had many victories. Most recently, One Laptop Per Child stabbed RMS in the face by replacing its Stallman-approved freeware with a Windows operating system. OLPC head Nicholas Negroponte, who originally backed a…
Vista is so secure, no one uses it
Pity the poor Microsoft employees in charge of protecting Windows from
third-party apps with security holes. The only code they can fix is Microsoft's. But as John Markoff reports this morning, Microsoft's boldest move to protect Windows Vista users totally backfired:
Even Windows 7 can't save us now
God bless John Markoff's ethics-addled heart. The veteran
New York Times reporter sucks up industry-spin bullshit, fake quotes and all, then repackages it as truth I can cut and paste. Why is ? Same reason Microsoft's cloud-based Office knockoff, , was also demoed to developers in Los Angeles this morning:
What Windows Azure really means
CEO Steve Ballmer's
hints at a Windows Web operating system have materialized as Windows Azure. More of a service than an operating system, Azure lets Windows developers write Web-based software that can use existing Microsoft Windows and Office technologies in conjunction with Windows Live websites. See a pattern? No…
Windows 7 may be early, Google tells Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft says that Windows 7, the badly needed replacement for Windows Vista, the operating system so laughably bad it tried renaming it, is coming out in 2010. Officially. But Mary Jo Foley, the longtime Microsoft observer,
thinks it's coming sooner — before the middle of next year, quite possibly. Foley has plenty…
Microsoft, Dell agree: Windows XP is worth more than Vista
Most old software gets remaindered to the bargain bins. Not Windows XP, however. In June, Dell wangled a deal with Microsoft to let it install the older operating system for customers who didn't want Vista. In June, the
companies charged $50 extra. According to this order page, XP now costs an extra $99 — on top of…
Windows 7 to make layoffs simple
"Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore 'Windows 7' just makes sense." That's how Microsoft chose to announce yesterday — via
an employee blog — that the next version of Windows will be called Windows 7. It's not news, but by making the name Facebook official, Microsoft is offering a promise:…
