Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft
Why Windows 7 Won’t Turn Microsoft Around
Roughly Drafted has an incredible article about why Windows 7 won’t turn Microsoft around. It’s totally accurate: Microsoft is missing the boat over and over and over again. If I were in charge of Microsoft, here’s what I’d do:
I’d immediately begin a very public plan to phase out Trident and replace it with Webkit over [...]
Microsoft’s Web App Gallery FAIL
Giving Microsoft, IIS, and PHP.exe the benefit of the doubt, I decided to try installing WordPress on Windows via Microsoft’s new Web Application Gallery. The install is simple and straightforward: install MySQL, go to the web app gallery, click on the download, choose what you want, poof! Done.
I got the first few steps knocked [...]
Vista: A Year Later
I’ve been running Windows Vista at work for about a year now. I’ve blogged about Windows Vista before, and I’ve been mostly let down by it. But I’m here to confess today that Vista has overtaken XP for me. Yep, it’s true. I kinda dig Vista.
If you perouse the internet, you’ll see – [...]
I Entrust My Data to… Microsoft?
I used to love my iPhone, because it kept me all up-to-date and synced. See – on my mac, Address Book and iCal were fully matched up to my calendar. But then I realized that I really don’t need to sync very often, at first because syncing pre-version 2.1 was painful, but later because [...]
Vista SP1 First Impression
Vista SP1 was over 435 megabytes for me, making it larger than any Microsoft Service Pack ever, larger than any Mac point release, larger than many OSes themselves. Installation took well over an hour in three stages, which is suspicious, as again, I’ve installed OSes in less time. But it went smoothly and [...]
Release Tuesday
This week has already seen a slew of releases: first came an updated Airport Express (I want one). Then today, Apple unleased Safari 3.1, which vastly extends support for bleeding edge web standards like CSS3, HTML5, and expands support of ECMAscript.
Finally, not to have all headlines stolen this St. Patrick’s Day, Microsoft [...]
The Pain of Vista
Yesterday, I began building my new work laptop. It’s a Dell XPS M1530, a nice 15″ widescreen screamer with a dual core Centrino, 2GB RAM, a 256MB video card, embedded Bluetooth, 802.11n, and, for the first time in my company, Windows Vista.
It’s typical for me to buy/install new software for testing on [...]
Windows Registry Adventure
“Don’t screw around with the Windows registry.”
That’s something I’ve told both users, helpdesk techs, and even IT managers for nearly a decade. “If you change something in the registry you don’t understand, you can render your system unbootable.” And yet, over the last 10 years, I’ve had my fingers pretty deep in the [...]
The Flop That is Windows Vista
Thom posted an article on OSNews.com yesterday called Vista’s Mythical Cut Features. It got me thinking; I left a few comments on the article that really hit the heart of the matter, but Thom’s responses, and those of others, questioned whether or not the things I mentioned were cut features or not.
Longhorn, [...]
Americans and Innovation: You Fail It!
9to5mac is featuring a fantastic article on lack of innovation by big companies. This particular article is about Microsoft, but ultimately, it’s a bigger statement about the United States of America. In fact, it reveals everything that is wrong with American business.
The concept of “distrust the customer” is growing, and it’s [...]
