Midori OS: Microsoft Sees End of Windows Era

 

"Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs. It is centred on the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to a single PC. It is seen as Microsoft's answer to rivals' use of "virtualisation" as a way to solve many of the problems of modern-day computing"

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/midori-operating-system.html

http://www.appscout.com/2008/08/midori_the_death_of_windows.php 

http://technologizer.com/2008/07/31/microsofts-post-windows-midori-it-must-exist/ 

http://bink.nu/news/microsoft-s-plans-for-post-windows-os-revealed-minori-details-leaked.aspx

An Open Letter to Windows Vista

"We haven’t talked, but I’ve been watching you from afar and feeling your pain as you’ve dealt with more than your fair share of challenges. Eighteen months after your debut, you simply don’t have an aura of success about you. Worse, your aging predecessor, Windows XP, has unexpectedly gained armies of devotees who refuse to give it up. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs–your original marketing tagline may have been “The Wow Starts Now,” but many people remain steadfastly unwowed."


http://technologizer.com/2008/08/06/an-open-letter-to-windows-vista/

Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image

"Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was actually Windows Vista. "

"The Mojave project is likely to be just one of many efforts designed to resuscitate Vista's image as well as lend strength to the Windows platform among stepped-up competition from Apple and Google. In an interview Wednesday, Windows unit business chief Bill Veghte told CNET News that he wants to see his unit try new things to get the message across.

"We have a huge perception opportunity," he said, offering a glass half-full assessment of things. "We are going to try a bunch of stuff.""


http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

also


http://www.appscout.com/2008/07/vista_microsoft_tricks_people.php


http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008956o-2000331777b,00.htm


http://technologizer.com/2008/07/29/microsofts-mojave-experiment-fooled-ya-pc-users/

"Microsoft has managed to prove that if you have a friendly expert on a controlled machine (with Vista pre-installed) showing a carefully selected subset of Vista features to an ignorant XP user for a few minutes, the XP user will often say he finds Vista acceptable. Wow."


http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/07/mojave-experiment-bad-science-bad.html

Codex Sinaiticus

"The Codex is critical to our understanding of the history of the Christian Bible and the development of Christianity. It is one of the two earliest surviving manuscripts into which the full 'canon' (collection of accepted texts) of the Christian Bible was copied into one volume. It is thus the antecedent of modern Christian Bibles. Before this date the individual books of the Bible were copied into much smaller volumes, often comprising only one or a handful of texts. The ambition of the Codex to include the entire canon of Christian scriptures coincides with the adoption of Christianity by Emperor Constantine the Great and an attempt to define once and for all, or 'codify', the texts that qualified as sacred scripture.

The Codex also marks a pivotal point in the history of the book. It is arguably the first large bound book to have been produced. For one volume to contain all the Christian scriptures book technology had to make a great technological leap forward. This advance was something akin to the introduction of printing with movable type or the introduction of personal computers. Whereas most previous bound books, as opposed to rolls, were relatively short and small in page size, the Codex was huge in length and large in page size."

 http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/codexsinai.html

Assessing the risks, costs and benefits of United States aviation security measures

"This paper seeks to discover whether aviation security measures are cost-effective by considering their effectiveness, their cost and expected lives saved as a result of such expenditure."


http://ogma.newcastle.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:2068

Men's denim Painted selvedge jean

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($285)


http://www.jcrew.com/AST/Browse/MensBrowse/Men_Shop_By_Category/denim/straightleg/PRDOVR~98560/98560.jsp

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Escape to New York

"The subprime crisis and the gas price crisis are accelerating the trend that people want to be in walkable urban areas,"

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/escape-to-new-york.php

Billionaires Back Antismoking Effort

"The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco will kill up to a billion people in the 21st century, 10 times as many as it killed in the 20th.

This time, most are expected to be in poor countries like Bangladesh and middle-income countries like Russia. In an effort to cut that number, Mr. Bloomberg’s foundation plans to commit $250 million over four years on top of a $125 million gift he announced two years ago. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is allocating $125 million over five years."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/health/24smoke.htm