I’ve been searching for a nice version of the Grumman Ag-Cat aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator for a very very very long time. There’s a post here on my blog where I first mentioned it back in January 2006, and another one where I mentioned it again in 2007. And even before that, I was searching [...]

If you’ve been following the news you probably heard about the recent issues Google is having with China. However it is important to get a good perspective on the whole issue. And so far I think this article on The Inquirer has really nailed it: But we should not be surprised as it is starting [...]

Microsoft is at it again. Back in 2006, I had already written about them stopping support for Playsforsure on new devices, which meant that people who bought music using Microsoft’s Playsforsure DRM infection, would not be able to play their music on new devices, including Microsoft’s own Zune player. This was called one of the [...]

Even after the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista, the operating system has still not improved much. It is practically as slow and resource hungry as it was without SP1. So it’s no surprise that business still aren’t upgrading to Vista. The only reason why Microsoft has managed to sell as much [...]

Bill Gates essentially admitted recently that Windows Vista sucks. He even laughingly joked about it: In a fairly frank interview with Gizmodo, Gates was asked if he thought there any Microsoft product that “could have had more polish.” … Instead Gates replid: “Ask me after we have shipped the next version of Windows”. The implication [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you already know what I think of Windows Vista. And it’s not just me, but many others are dealing with issues with Windows Vista every day. If it’s not the defects in the software, then Microsoft just decides one day that a couple of thousand users [...]

My new website has just been launched at www.kareldonk.com. Feel free to take a look. It contains the latest information about the services I have to offer as well as updated portfolios. I’ve been working on the site in my spare time for about 2 months now, and it was about time I could finally [...]

It looks like Windows Genuine Crapvantage is causing trouble again for Microsoft. It seems it has been marking the Windows Vista and XP installations of many people as illegal, causing the operating systems to go into reduced functionality mode. This is not the first time this is happening, and many people, including me, have warned [...]

While the RIAA is still busy suing children and dead people, music companies are now looking more and more at distributing their music without the use of DRM. It looks like people are finally becoming wiser: Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the [...]

A year ago I wrote about Google’s hypocritical decision to help the Chinese government with censoring information in China. There was no doubt that this decision was made based on pure business reasons. They sold themselves out to the Chinese government expecting to be able to gain (more) access to the big market in China, [...]