Saurabh Chowdhury on programming and life.
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Friday, September 22, 2006 - Posts

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    Definition: Vistafied

    "When any visual element in a software, print or electronic media bears resembels known visual attributes of the Windows Vista UI it's said to be Vistafied." Example: This site's footer. I am not taking any credits for coining or suggesting this term. But I do believe it's a much better term than the other term on the rise: Vistified .
  • Fri

    The Monopoly Game!

    Everyone who knows me; knows of my love for Microsoft, so of course there will be the talk of heavy bias in whatever I am about to say. Yes I am biased , but I am biased to wards, not biased against something and I am not prejudicial. Adobe has monolpoly over the portable document format they practically invented it. So much for PDF! What we have here is a monopoly playing around with the law; twisting it to eliminate their competition against a seemingly notorious monopoly who is; but a new entrant...