Whats in a name!

Ever wondered why software companies go for code names of the products they are about to release? Microsoft is famous for its spicy code names. From Whistler for XP to Longhorn for Vista and Vienna for Windows 7, they have a wonderful set of code names they have come up with in all these years. But I wandered through the web just to get an insight about why code names do not last long. And if they are temporary, why not go for a standard name at once, and waste time hanging around with code names!I have the answer now. The industry is not as simple...

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Microsoft weds Facebook

In just about 3 years time, like many other IT companies reaching appreciable height of success in short span, Facebook has become a popular name in social networking environment. With the news of Facebook being evaluated at $15 billion and Microsoft benefiting from a $240 million stake, things are going to be more challenging for Google. For IT people around the world, it has always been a fun to watch the catfight between Google and Microsoft. There have been comparatively fewer times Microsoft has gained advantage over Google than the vice...

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Windows stripped naked

"So that's kind of proof that there is actually a pretty nice little core inside of Windows." This was a pretty cool statement. Have you had a chance to watch Eric Taut's presentation on the concepts of Windows 7 and virtualization strengthening into Windows? If you missed, watch it here. Eric Traut is the right person to hear about Windows kernel from, not only because he leads the core team of about 200 engineers which is primarily responsible...

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Operating System Support

Windows XP has not been very friendly with me recently. Well, it is said that software goes parallel with hardware, and I use a PC with normal configuration without a UPS support in an unstable power environment. That makes me a bad operator and thus I would not like to blame the operating system.There is a brighter side too. I am doing more debugging task with operating systems than I used to. Unfortunately more than half of the cases to solve the OS problems ended up in me reinstalling the operating system. Fortunately, it also encouraged me...

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