Vista rants keep coming — now it’s Palm’s Catch-22

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Apr 6, 20072 mins

Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis is not finished with his Vista migration which means, by a matter of course, that there are still kinks to work out. Hewlett-Packard, with its printer driver problems, is out of the firing line for the time being. But Lewis writes in the third installation that Palm is now front and center, “due to providing a Catch-22 so good I’ve concluded Palm must have hired Joseph Heller for the sole purpose of designing it.” His Treo 700P, you see, is only partially Vista-compatible. Part 1: Whole new Vistas. Part 2: Vista log continues.

The news beat: Acer slides into the number 3 spot of mobile PC makers, according to iSuppli, surpassing Toshiba. The U.S. IRS, meanwhile, admits to losing some 500 notebooks throughout the last three years, some of which housed taxpayer information. And Google evades questions about similarities to Chinese rival Sohu.com’s search engine.

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