Windows

Are Google’s OS ambitions becoming clearer?

July 1, 2007

Last week saw the roll-out of a new version of Google Docs and Spreadsheets.  One of the biggest changes was the announcement of "Folders".  People were apparently confused by the old tagging paradigm, so they've replaced tags with folders.  Makes sense from a usability point of view, but it's not until you realize that you can place [...]

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Dumb, dumb, dumb

January 29, 2007

The winner for today’s bonehead, customer unfriendly move is Microsoft.  Windows Vista Upgrade will only run if Windows XP is installed on the hard disk.  In the past, (at least as far back as Windows 95), upgrade meant that users were being rewarded for prior purchases of Microsoft operating systems by being allowed to buy the new [...]

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Will Vista Ship in Q1 2007?

April 20, 2006

Ouch!  Paul Thurrott slams Windows Vista for broken promises, and suggests that Bill Gates should step down.  My contention that the February CTP was not feature complete, and Microsoft is far from shipping Vista is also confirmed: Back in early December 2005, Microsoft promised that it would ship a feature-complete version of Windows Vista internally [...]

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Windows Defender

November 5, 2005

Windows Defender is the new name for Microsoft AntiSpyware.  Whatever the name, this is a great little utility.  It’s been available as a free download on the Microsoft site for some time.  I installed it on all the PC’s in the house, and the incidence of spyware has dropped to pretty much zero, even with [...]

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Microsoft 'Live' Redux

November 2, 2005

I’ve had a little more time to digest the Microsoft Live announcements, read some of the comment from the blogosphere, and chat with some local industry people about their thoughts.  I think the funniest bit of commentary was Om Malik’s Microsoft: I Speak Web 2.0, in which he compared the announcements to a guy having [...]

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MSN / Yahoo

October 12, 2005

I just tuned into the conference call on the MSN / Yahoo Interop Agreement that was announced this morning.  The salient details?  In six to nine months users of both networks will have text, voice, emoticon and presence interoperability, creating a community of 250 million users globally. Jeff Pulver asks does it mean anything?  Only [...]

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Wall Street Journal on Shipping Vista

September 25, 2005

The Wall Street Journal online has published an article on shipping Windows Vista.  It’s long, and fairly dramatic.  It details the Longhorn Reset, which many people, including myself, knew about last fall.  Iotum was originally planning to be in market with a product for Longhorn, but shifted direction when it became clear it would be [...]

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Microsoft Reorg

September 20, 2005

Here’s an important, but non-VON story.  The Seattle PI published a story this afternoon that Microsoft is reorganizing into three divisions, each with it’s own president.  In addition, Jim Allchin (currently senior VP of the platforms division), is retiring.  The new divisions are: Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division: Windows, Server and Tools, and MSN. [...]

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Windows Vista Release Dates

September 4, 2005

Over on Longhorn Blogs, the Windows Vista Release Schedule: Windows Vista Beta 2: Beta 2 has to be "feature complete" by the end of September. Expect Beta 2 on December 7th, 2005. Windows Vista Beta 3: At this time, Microsoft does not have a third beta planned for testers. Windows Vista RC0: On or around [...]

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Microsoft Digital Media Price Cuts

October 8, 2003

Microsoft Undercuts Rivals with Digital Media Pricing. Microsoft has announced plans to license its new digital media streaming software, Windows Media 9 Series, at a cheaper price, for a greater number of devices and across more platforms than competing standards, such as MPEG-4.  The most interesting thing about this is that it will be cheap [...]

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