Note: I first posted a version of the following on the Ubuntu Forums

Ubuntu Bug No. 1 takes down another household.
It is with no great joy that I report the beginning of the end of my family’s experiment with non-Microsoft operating systems. The next computer that attaches to the family network will run Windows exclusively ( Read more... )

My office just migrated to WindowsXP. It's really fun watching a whole bunch of 12:00 users being confronted with new software.

Basic functionality has not changed; all that has changed, for most users, is the look...and yet people are utterly baffled. Considering the amount of confusion this is generating, I wonder if it might not be equally ( Read more... )

Here's one of my first posts about getting hit by the sobig worm back in the summer of 2003--in the middle of thesis-writing. Given that, it's not surprising that I was ready to go to Linux when I did.

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It's not often the CEO of a software company wades into what might be a hostile forum to defend his company's actions.
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