We already know that Apple was having a lot of issues with their 27 inch iMacs this Christmas. So how are they coming along with that?  Turns out, not so good.

Two months on and Apple is still up S___t Creek.  And it’s gotten so bad that they’re now offering full refunds plus fifteen percent!

Oops.

It seems that even though a firmware update now theoretically fixes flickering problems (though thorough testing remains to prove it so) there are still yellow screen problems, and supply is still far short of demand.

But it’s not just Apple with their head firmly wedged up their behind.  Microsoft is buggering up as well.  As usual.  Good ‘ol Microsoft…

First, Windows 7 is shortening the battery lives of a lot of laptops out there, of perfectly good batteries, sometimes from 2 1/2 hours under Windows XP down to a mere 1/2 hour on Windows 7!  The problem?  A new feature that warns you if your battery needs replacing … needs replacing.  The “consider replacing your battery” warning is, apparently, very much in need of more work.  Microsoft is claiming that the problem is in the way that it reads system firmware, and that they “are investigating this issue in conjunction with our hardware partners.”

Uh huh.

But that ain’t all.

Because what would Microsoft be without Yet Another Internet Explorer Bug Of Doom?

Yes, that’s right folks.  As if the last IE bug wasn’t bad enough.  Now we’ve got one more, and it has been described as the “public file server” bug.  Why?  Well simple, because anyone running Windows without Protected Mode turned on (or in the case of older versions like Windows XP that don’t have Protected Mode) and surfing the web with IE – any version of 6, 7, or 8 – have essentially handed their PC over to hackers to use as a public file server, giving free access to any file that you already know the filename of if you visit a malicious website while this vuln remains unfixed.  Talk about a security nightmare!

Of course, according to Microsoft, this is merely an “Information Disclosure” bug.

Do you still use Internet Explorer?