“I un-installed every single piece of commercial software from my laptop!” [Comic]
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Tag Archives: Software
Adobe discontinuing Creative Suite, replacing it with subscription-based Creative Cloud
Adobe has announced that it’s now going to focus its efforts on the subscription-based Creative Cloud service. However, instead of offering Creative Cloud alongside its traditional (and physical media-based) Creative Suite, ...
Chinese man caught stealing high-end software worth $100 million
When we hear about people pirating things online, the usual media or software are things like music, movies, games and some common software. A Chinese man has pleaded guilty to selling high-end commercial software meant for enterp...
People will pay $70 for a meal but refuse to pay $2 for software [Comic]
I hadn’t really thought of it this way before but, if you think about it, we (and by “we” I mean Western society) do spend a lot of money on food — especially eating out. However, when it comes to software,...
Microsoft debuts Visual Studio 2012, the only (free) way to create Windows applications
I’m not a coder. I don’t develop applications. I almost flunked the only programming class I ever took. So obviously, Microsoft’s announced new software absolutely does NOT have me in mind, but that isn’t a...
Europeans can finally legally resell used software
The European Union Court of Justice has upheld the right of users to resell software irrespective of their license restrictions. The court made its decision in a ruling against Oracle’s argument that the court should allow i...
Windows software of the day [March 30, 2012]
Windows has hundreds of thousands of programs. Because of this great volume and lack of a central store, software discovery (aka finding new and useful programs) is extremely difficult. With our Windows Software of the Day initiat...