Xbox One: The Eagle Has Landed! Whilst the Xbox One design and feature list is extensive I can’t help but think that stealing the Surface design would have been a unified brand sort of idea but nonetheless I like the look of the thing a lot. What’s It All About? For those not in the [...]
Surface is out there RT and Pro Microsoft has a beautifully designed product line and right now, after going hands-on at Microsoft’s Build 2012 event, only Asus has tempted me with their Windows 8 touch enabled alternatives. In fact I defy you to go hands-on with the Surface and not be impressed by the look [...]
Windows Phone… Mine is a Windows Phone 7 and I have been wrestling with this post for over a week. Over the last weeks I have seen some amazing new Apps appear on the Windows Store only to see they were all exclusively for Windows Phone 8. It’s not so much denying me these apps [...]
In My Last Die Hard post… I talked about Microsoft’s efforts to put the seemingly Unkillable Internet Explorer 6 out to pasture. As hard to kill as IE6 has been, the combination of Windows XP and Office 2003 have defied every attempt of Microsoft to kill it: again even John McLane isn’t this durable. Our [...]
The EU Slapped Microsoft Yet Again. In what seems to be a bad flashback to the 1990′s the EU has fined Microsoft $731M for inhibiting user choice of browser in Windows 7. According to Venturebeat the fine stems from a bug in Windows 7 SP1 that disabled a browser choice screen. The EU claimed this [...]
IE6 Seems To Be More Unkillable Than… Just about any action hero out there. Could IE6 be more unstoppable than even John McClane? That said Microsoft are doing their utmost to retire IE6 for good. Microsoft is pushing hard for a crowdsourced, cross-web solution that combines common sense, education, an embedded code snippet for websites [...]
Windows 8 is here to stay… Today I plucked a link out of my Twitter feed to a blog post by Israel Lifshitz, founder of SysAid Technologies about Windows 8. The post on his blog was titled “Why I’m wishing success to Windows phone and not to Windows OS for PC?“ This is a good [...]
Off to a modest start… According to many of the market analysts Microsoft’s dip of the toe into the hardware market with the Surface RT is off to a modest start. I’m prepared to reserve judgment until after the holiday sales and just hope that Redmond have a plan to bring their A-game to Surface [...]
Earlier this week I read in a good friend’s Twitter Feed a link to Jakob Nielsen’s Article, “Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users”. I followed the link and was a little surprised by the look and feel of the site, shades of Windows 95 by the look of it. Still [...]
As predicted in my post on the Surface RT guesting in NCIS LA the Windows Surface RT appeared in yet another CBS show. On Hawaii 5-0 this week, the Medical Examiner Dr. Max Bergman (the fantastic Masi Oka) uses the Windows Surface to demonstrate some forensic findings to members of the 5-0 team. Windows Phones [...]
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