Daily Archives: February 25, 2008

Microsoft Dupes Library of Congress

Microsoft has paid the Library of Congress a huge bribe so that they will adopt some of their software, and use hardware running Vista in public areas. This is, of course, a travesty. As Boing Boing says, “Library of Congress sells itself out to Microsoft for a mere $3 mil” … You know this is George Bush’s fault. Continue reading Microsoft Dupes Library of Congress

Judge Sticks it to Microsoft

During the 2006 holiday shopping season, in a desperate attempt to boost weak sales of their totally sucky operating system, Microsoft engineerd the branding of zillions of PC’s with the slogan “Windows Vista Capable.”Those computers were only able to run a very stripped down version of the senselessly bloated operating system, called, laughingly and absurdly, “Vista Home Basic.”People bought the computers, and felt ripped off (because, well, they Microsoft had really stuffed it to them) and somebody sued.Now, the suit is elevated to the level of a class action suit. Continue reading Judge Sticks it to Microsoft