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Windows Mobile 6 was a very interesting release, even though not so much in the technical manner. WinMobile 6 was powered by the Windows CE 5 operating system, geared towards PDA's and smartphones. Stability was further improved. The user interface was largely the same, but with a Windows Vista-ish theme applied to it now.  The home screen for Windows Mobile 6.1. The Today program had been installed, providing the Lunar phase illustration next to the LED clock. Using VMware Player 16, my XP VM had two cores allocated to it, along with 3GB's of RAM. The device emulator still wasn't the fastest in the world. This is due to the emulated ARM processor. Code translation would always be a bottleneck. However, this was to be expected, thus, so surprises here. With two cores though, performance of the emulated PDA was significantly improved. Thus, I could actually achieve video playback within Windows Media Player without too much skipping. My sample video was encoded using the WMV...

People were ecstatic when Lotus Software, along with Microsoft, became software partners working alongside Apple to bring Macintosh applications to there new platform.  For many, this excitement was justified. Lotus 1-2-3 had taken the PC world by storm. With it's success, the IBM PC/XT became a staple in corporate offices around the country. Would Lotus Software transform the Macintosh in the same way they transformed the PC? With this excitement, everybody was asking the following: "When will Lotus 123 for the Mac arrive". However, that excitement turned to a puzzled and dumbfounded look when the company announced that they were not going to release 123 for the Mac. Lotus Software intended on redefining the Mac through a integrated software package with a very intriguing name: Jazz. In retrospect, Lotus Software release Jazz is considered one of the dumbest decisions every made in the field of computing. Everybody wanted a version of Lotus 123 for the Mac. Because Lotus...

When I give my opinion on a topic, I'm not just going to say that this or that is stupid; I'm going to tell you why I think that a particular topic is dumb and stupid. NFT's have consumed our headlines the past couple months. While many try to put a positive spin on it, they been nothing but trouble. The wild speculation has caught the attention of grifters looking for that quick buck. The founders of the NFT marketplaces and collections are rapidly becoming the self-entitled oligarchs who are beyond the rules. Massive corporations already loaded with money see NFT's as yet another tool to squeeze even more money out of their customers. The typical customer doesn't want them and have voiced their displeasure strongly . It's a given why the major corporations have wholeheartedly embraced them despite its recent appearance and their general negative response. NFT's do not serve a benefit for us, the consumer. Yet, many are now Hellbent on shoving them down ou...