Windows 7 is only two years away (if you believe the—heh heh—totally trustworthy product timeline), and Microsoft is treating Vista as the OS that dare not speak its name, but let’s take a few minutes, shall we, to laugh at Windows XP, the Microsoft OS that looks competent next to Vista.

The clever chaps at College Humor have released a video entitled “The Matrix Runs on Windows,” and in addition to a pretty spot-on parody of the Matrix (with some rather nifty special effects), it’s mixed up with a greatest hits collection of the most annoying problems with XP: status bars, Clippy, and of course, the BSOD.

Video after the break.

Earlier this week, in response to controversy surrounding the fact that Apple had chosen to include Safari as a download in Software Update for Windows even if the user never had Safari in the first place, Apple released a Software Update 2.1 Update that now categorizes Safari 3.1 as “New Software. There are a couple more »

2007 was a great year for Apple in the business world. The 2007 market share results for Mac OS X showed that in businesses, Mac OS X usage tripled to 4.2%, just over 2% lower than Vista, at 6.3%. Windows XP declined during the same period, and it seems a shame that Apple doesn’t capitalize more »

Microsoft employee Jeff Jones has released his findings from a comparison of Vista, XP, OS X Tiger, and RedHat Linux.

“Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report” by “Jeffrey R Jones, Security Guy (and Microsoft Director)” already has an inconclusive feel about it as soon as that title page is splashed up. But let’s give it a chance.

Before the report starts, we are met with an Executive Summary, telling me first that “This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with other modern workstation operating systems Red Hat, Ubuntu and Apple products.”