Tag: Microsoft
Don’t make me laugh: iPad to increase success of Windows 7?
“Where’s the touchscreen computer?” a middle-aged woman asked me. “What?” I asked. It was April 2009, and I was halfway through my shift at the...
Don’t bring an Apple device to a Microsoft event, you might leave with a black eye.
It would be the day a tech company tells me what device I can or cannot use to cover their event. What is surely the...
Office 2010 to get Outlook and some new price points.
If there’s on thing that sucks worse than Mail.app, it’s Entourage. Apparently Microsoft knows it too, so they’re now planning on bringing the corporate mail...
Apple’s Mouse Public Relations
This is the year two thousand and nine. I still have to explain to people that Mac OS X supports right clicking. Even with the...
Apple needs to get that Chrome off their board, and focus on the Cloud.
It’s taken me quite a while to wrap my head around Google’s announcement of their OS, and it hasn’t been easy gathering my thoughts about...
Snow Leopard news from WWDC
It’s coming, and we’ve finally got an official word on a release… month. Apple has pegged a release in September, but they were far from...
Not So Keen on Fruit, or Why the Verizon Wireless and Apple Rumors Are Bunk
The whole tech blogosphere has been in a massive kerfuffle for the past week because of the alleged rumors of an iPhone-lite device coming to...
Give me a break. Microsoft isn’t cheaper than Apple. Dell might be, but Microsoft isn’t!
The last time I wrote about a Microsoft marketing campaign I took a great deal of flack, and was called a FanBoi, but I’m about...
Safari gets pwned in PWN2OWN
ComputerWorld is reporting that Safari was the first browser to fall in the yearly CanSecWest contest ‘PWN2OWN.’ The exploit was run by the same Charlie...
What happens when you’re getting pounded by the competition?
You fight back by putting up a recording booth where you can record your own “I’m a PC” ad in front of all of your...
Bill Gates and Seinfield must have a higher IQ than me.
Remember all that talk about fighting back. Remember how Microsoft is mad as hell and they aren’t gonna take it anymore. Remember how “AWESOME” their...
Browsers and web standards
With the new Safari updates I have decided to run the acid3 test to determine which browser if any would nail the web standards test....
Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update
Props to Vincent Ferrari for the heads up. Apparently Microsoft has released an update to Office 2008 that fixes a whole slew of problems. Some...
The Enterprise Just Got Cool…
As excited as I am about all of the cool stuff that will soon be available because of what the iPhone SDK has to offer...
From iLife 08 to Office 2007
As I said in my introductory post, I live (proudly) as a Mac user in a Microsoft OS build and support center. And try as...
Let the Hazing Begin, I’m the New Guy…
I carefully crafted my daily escape from the WoW (world of Windows) a little over three years ago when I bought my first Mac, a...
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Apple?
There’s much buzz in the Valley over Google’s leap into the proposed MS/Yahoo deal. WSJ has particularly good reporting on Google’s interest and maneuvers in...
Office 2008: Mac edition is pre ordering.
Sometimes you have absolutely no choice in the matter, and sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and put software on your mac that...