Windows 7
Monday, May 12, 2008

Is Vista ME part 2? Is Windows 7 the real deal? Well, let's not get crazy.



The video certainly shows off a few nifty features, and many more are hinted at. A split view Explorer window, FTP locations, disk usage analyzer, and a revamped task manager are a few of the shiny, and useful updates.

It's a shame the soulless machine that is Microsoft will deliver this to market as a whole new OS, instead of as the necessary Vista functionality upgrade it actually is.

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Vista Speech Recognition: It's pretty amazing
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Not quite ready for prime time?


When Microsoft does get this perfected however, how long before we can expect it to be combined with this?

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Holy Vista Launch Blitz!
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The Daily Show, the Dimitri Martin Special: Person, and the launch of clearification.com. Staring...well Dimitri Martin of course. Who also stared in the launch of an interesting plot based site: The Institute of Advanced Personhood. Looks like the Dharma Initiative from Lost if it were run by Microsoft. Kind of neat though, I'm going to explore more.

I have to say, I'm impressed by the marketing. If they spent as much time on the code as they did on the focus grouping, it might be brave new world for Microsoft and Gates both. I played with one of the betas and liked the look and feel, but was decidedly not impressed by driver support and hardware requirements. Don't get me started on the nannyware (Are you absolutely, positively, super-duper, triple-dog-dare sure that you want to install that?). But as Bill said on the show tonight, the beta is not the real deal.

I'm reserving judgement. If I see anything awesome, I'll let you know.

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Zero Hour
Monday, January 29, 2007


Bill Gates is tonight's guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista is going live tomorrow, and my world is about to change. I generally avoid writing about work in this forum, but in this case it's unavoidable.

First let me say that I'm not a hater; Uncle Bill puts food on my table after all. But Vista is going to drop like a bomb and I'm going to have to pick up the pieces, so please forgive me for having already installed Ubuntu on my media server.

I'll be posting some more of my thoughts on the Vista launch and the aftermath soon. Keep Watching!

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It's all about strategy
Friday, April 02, 2004

From Wired, via Slashdot:

"WASHINGTON -- In a surprise shift, leading software companies acknowledge in a report [.pdf] to the Bush administration that government might need to force the U.S. technology industry to improve the security of America's computer networks.

"The companies, including Microsoft and Computer Associates International, said the Homeland Security Department "should examine whether tailored government action is necessary" to compel improvements in the design of computer software.

"The 250-page report containing that recommendation and dozens more was being released Thursday. It cautioned that government should require security improvements only when market forces fail. It also said businesses already are demanding software that is safer and more resilient to attacks. "

Hmm...I wonder if this has any connection to the imminent release of XP SP2, or the most recent security push from Microsoft. And what about Sun Microsystem's sudden $2 Billion love affair with Microsoft?

Why fight open source development when you can outlaw it. The message to software developers is clear: you either play with our toys, in our sandbox, by our rules, or you don't play at all.

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