Out of the box, Chromebooks are even more locked down than Windows 8 machines . People are, unsurprisingly, upset that Microsoft have imposed UEFI Secure Boot on the x86 market. A situation in which one company gets to determine which software will boot on systems by default is obviously open to ab...

Google ditches RSS Subscription Extension for Chrome . Many users are still upset that Google plans to shut down its Google Reader RSS subscription feed website on July 1. The decision continues to be debated in Internet circles, and now it appears Google is already distanced itself from other RSS ...

HBO.com among sites on IE10 Windows RT Flash "Blacklist".

You are only allowed to use the sites and "apps" your owners allow you to use. Nothing more, nothing less.

Any questions?

Ad-blocking apps being removed from Google Play store . No biggie. You just side load or your one of the decent alternative marketplaces and you're good to go. This won't bother the users who care. People just don't get it. Here they are, thinking they own these devices but people don't even have a...

Google announces Reader's imminent demise.

Got to love the "cloud". They can remove any of your favorite application, any time for any reason.

Wonderful "cloud", ...Skydrive experiened service disruptions.

...Aside from the stuff I was told behind the scenes in confidence, these quotes constitute the entire "official" word of what happened there. It is very disappointing because they are both decent guys from what I can tell ( particularly dencorso who is definitely one of the good guys who...