via arstechnica.com/

The results suggest that a familiarity with Windows dialogs have bred a degree of contempt and that users simply don't care what the boxes say anymore.

Most users are idiots.

This displays a problem I have long experienced myself. However being rather aquainted with PC's it didn't affect me too much. But someone without the obvious technical knowledige will likely just confirm every possible dialog, which explains the current state of virii, phishing and malware from a users point of view - without any major need of critizing the vendors.

via www.tuaw.com/

It appears that they are expecting big things from the iPhone market and advertisers, as they will be publishing the quarterly iPhone mag in paper and online versions.

On why the Publishers of Smartphone & Pocket PC stalled the magazine in favour of a new iPhone publication.

via linux.slashdot.org/

Geeks love the chaos and security challenges that is posed by Windows.

I love slashdot for it's insightfull comments. This one relates to the 'Linux for Housewives, XP for Geeks' article which states that Asus Eee PC sales record show that Housewives tend to by the Eee PC with Linux, while 'Geeks' (how I hate this word) tend to choose Linux.

via software.silicon.com/

There are suggestions that elements such as mail, photos and video could be available as an option on Windows 7 meaning customers could buy a version which supports what they want to do, without the loads of extra stuff they won't use or need.

Sure. Everybody will jump for an operating system which doesn't even support mp3 & videos. That's clearly old-style marketing think. Vista's problem is not that it does too much, but that it does it in very ineffective ways (usability and performance wise)