Cuba USA
Isbel Diaz Torres reports that, in spite of Microsoft stopping support last week, Windows XP "refuses to go" in Cuba.
Evidently, XP remains the most common operating system in Cuba. Torres notes that Windows 7 and 8 have been slow to catch on because of memory requirements, quipping that "at this very second, someone may be setting up a 486 and installing Windows 95 in it on the island."
The article describes efforts by the government and UCI to move people toward open source software, but it seems that Linux is not widely used.
This article reminded me of an earlier post on the cost of obsolete technology in Cuba.
It also reminded me of a recent post by Yoani Sánchez on essential iOS applications. One would expect her to be talking about essential Android applications -- are there more iPhones than Android phones in Cuba?
I don't expect that folks in Cuba were getting patches and upgrades to their XP installations, so the cessation of support is not big news there.
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Cuba USA
Windows XP lives on in Cuba
Evidently, XP remains the most common operating system in Cuba. Torres notes that Windows 7 and 8 have been slow to catch on because of memory requirements, quipping that "at this very second, someone may be setting up a 486 and installing Windows 95 in it on the island."
The article describes efforts by the government and UCI to move people toward open source software, but it seems that Linux is not widely used.
This article reminded me of an earlier post on the cost of obsolete technology in Cuba.
It also reminded me of a recent post by Yoani Sánchez on essential iOS applications. One would expect her to be talking about essential Android applications -- are there more iPhones than Android phones in Cuba?
I don't expect that folks in Cuba were getting patches and upgrades to their XP installations, so the cessation of support is not big news there.
- Cuban Government Support Of The Weekly "packages"
Cuban blogger Isbel Diaz Torres has written a two part post on the information "packages" that are distributed each week in Cuba. In part one, he lists 12 factors that lead him to believe that the Cuban government may be behind these weekly packages....
- Young Professionals Online In Havana
I've come across a video and a short post that give a sense of what it is like to get Internet access in Cuba. The short post describes a frustrating session at an Internet access centers. It reminded me immediately of a time I tried to exchange...
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Yoani Sanchez posted an anecdote about her 20-year old neighbor who exchanges and sells foreign television programs, music and films in a "dizzying variety and quantity" on flash drives. Her post reminded me of the early days, when you could walk into...
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A blog post by Isbel Díaz Torres quotes Boris Moreno Cordoves, Vice Minister of Communications & Informatics, as saying that service improvement due to the ALBA-1 cable could begin in September or October of this year. Díaz asks, what will begin to...
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Ping is a simple utility program that comes with every Mac or Windows computer. Ping records the time it takes to send a data packet across the Internet and to receive an acknowledgement of receipt from the remote computer. A colleague in Cuba recently...