I don’t know who at Disney came up with this clever plan, but geeks have renewed hope next week when DWTS kicks off next week. The “Big-Bang Theory”-inspired pairing?
Not sure if I’ll actually manage to catch his episode, but it’s perhaps something worth putting on the calendar.
So this is a little late in the posting, but things have been busy (though not as busy as GMoney-busy) recently… but anyway, a couple weeks ago there was a big firestorm on slashdot and elsewhere sparked by the announcement that Windows 7 Starter Edition would allow only three applications (excluding antivirus apps) to run simultaneously.
To review, three is not a large number. At last year’s Professional Developers Conference, MSFT said that that “70% of Windows users have between eight and 15 windows open at any one time”… but that’s a pretty useless empty stat given the vagueness of “windows”. This year, the MSFT monkey asserts that
most users wouldn’t be affected by the three-app limit. “We ran a study which suggested that the average consumer has open just over two applications [at any time],” Painell claims. “We would expect the limit of three applications wouldn’t affect very many people.”
This is all stupid, and may not even happen due to the EU’s legal team.
But… a clever post buried in the slashdot thread got me thinking – this is actually a good thing for linux and Mac users! This way we get a cheap(er) version of Win7 to run via Parallels/VM/etc, and the app limit constraint is meaningless.
Finally, some humor:
A Microsoft study has shown that users seldom use all 26 letters during a session, and so the economy-priced Windows 7 Functional Illiterate Edition will only support A through W and the numerals 0 through 7. However, the software will be endorsed by Sesame Street and today is brought to you by the letter “/”.
