Windows 7 factoid: One logo program to rule them all

Waethorn I'd suspect the Windows 7 hardware logo programs will be announced at WinHEC next week since that's the conference for people who make hardware for Windows.

This is pathetically sad. http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/microsoft-placing-im-a-pc-recording-b... Like a $2 hooker working out in the street. "Windows Vista, guaranteed to give you more viruses than a $2 hooker" (tm)

"I think it take big balls to put the booth right infront of the Apple stores." Microsoft is weak. They have no quality to base any fight against Apple.

subzero Actually, Microsoft has pretty stringent standards and have traditionally been a great way to see what was coming in PCs in a couple of years down the road since the certification requirements generally listed what hardware was being phased out with several years warning so hardware vendors had notice. By the way, the specs are not done by Microsoft, they'd done by a group of hardware vendors working with Microsoft to get agreement on where the industry should go. The problem with the two Vista certification programs was that Microsoft got bullied into there being two rather than the one they'd had earlier. A lot of the reason for that anomaly (and that of having Windowe Vista Basic) had been the six year gap between new operating systems. If you want to see what the programs are like the program specs are at http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev which is the hardware developers' programs site at Microsoft.

Lindy, Before you make sarcastic comments about a 3 paragraph message, maybe you should actually at least scan all 3 paragraphs. Seeing how the 2nd of only 3 paragraphs talked about the Vista 2 tier problems and the 1st of only 3 paragraphs talked about the traditional role that the 2nd of only 3 paragraphs complained wasn't followed. D o I n e e d t o t y p e m o r e s l o w l y ? Does your copy of Safari take out every other paragraph? Does your copy of Safari take out every other paragraph?

"Taking the fight to Apple's backyard is priceless." Yes, from the company that (as "mikegalos" proclaims) spends hardly any time at all thinking about Apple. Can you say "inferiority complex"? Lame. Desperate. Sad.

"By the way, for a so-called peddler of luxury goods (as opposed to the more "pedestrian" Microsoft), Apple seems to spend a lot of time thinking about Microsoft." "Can you say 'inferiority complex?'" The only difference is that Apple IS inferior.

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid" Looking up "factoid" on Wikipedia is cyclic. (Use a real dictionary next time)

Or, put simply: For every dollar Apple spends on advertising they spend $1.67 on new product development For every dollar Microsoft spends on advertising they spend $5.33 on new product development Which is why Microsoft announced a geodistributed cloud operating system and Apple announced that Aluminum was the new White.

"Which is why Microsoft announced a geodistributed cloud operating system and Apple announced that Aluminum was the new White." So why did they move away from aluminum to shiny plastic in the first place? More like "Aluminum is the old, old white".

BTW, mike: I didn't get a chance to post something in an earlier article: WinAntirus has no EULA. It gets installed without user intervention or permission. A trojan downloader is typically the source of it, and trojan downloaders are often installed when someone clicks one of those "Your computer is infected with x0000 viruses" ad banners after clicking on a Google ad link. Also: I just wanted to say that UEFI is now usable. The slow boot bug was caused by a poorly-written Intel EFI firmware. Now AHCI works fine, and it boots at normal speed. No more Legacy IDE mode is required for UEFI support. They just released a new BIOS as of 10/28/08 which fixed the issue. That means that systems now ship with fully UEFI-compliant BIOS's that support full functionality of the board. No more is the "Apple supports EFI, when PC's don't" argument is valid. Now, PC's have a better EFI implementation: The open standard UEFI (EFI 2.0) specification, rather than Apple's proprietary version of EFI 1.1.