25.3.11

Telephone Time bomb?

I am sitting here knowing that my mobile phone may well have been ruined.

I was happy to see that BlackBerry have made their OS version 6 available for my phone so I was installing it. There is a warning that says

During these steps do not disconnect your device or interrupt this process as it could make your device unusable.

So, there was a power cut and the wifi connection was lost. The downloading of files seems to have stopped now.

Can’t blame Gates for this one.

DW

21.3.11

Microsoft Comes … second

You can’t say I didn’t give them a fair crack of the whip because I did.

I downloaded and installed IE9 in spite of major problems with getting it done. It looks alright and I have used it and then given it a test: after all, it claims to be slick, fast …

I asked IE9 to go to my own web site www.duncanwil.co.uk … I counted to 9 then my home page loaded. I then asked it to find www.bbc.co.uk and counted to 15 this time before it opened.

Then I used Chrome for the same tasks:

  • my site opened within a count of 3
  • the BBC site opened on the count of 7

Any more need to be said Mr Gates III?

DW