I have found it absolutely amazing that Microsoft and all it’s uber-fan-boys have found the Apple “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads so objectionable. People either seem to love them or hate them, hell, Bill Gates doesn’t even “get” them. Personally I find most, if not all, of them fairly accurate […]
A while ago I registered to download the RC versions of Windows Vista. Recently Microsoft released RC1 of Vista and I received an email with a product-key and a link to download the ISO. So why would a Linux/UNIX/Mac guy want to bother with such a thing? I believe it is […]
While catching up on some news reading this weekend I came across this interesting headline: “Microsoft Tries to Reclaim HPC Market Share from Linux“. I knew that MS had been working for the last several YEARS trying to create a product to enter the HPC market and it seems they are finally ready to […]
I was a huge fan of BeOS and was extremely dissappointed by the slow demise of Be and its eventual sale to Palm. Ever since the death of Be I have been closely watching the various attempts to keep the dream alive. Many projects have come and gone in an attempt to recreate the magic […]
It’s been a while since I made a post on the ol’ blog and there has been a lot I have wanted to say so I will try to quickly do a little catch up post. So without further ado, and in reverse chronological order…
[Netbeans 5.0]
I just noticed that Netbeans 5.0 final has been […]
Absolutely brilliant! There has been a LOT of chatter on MS related blogs about a new “innovative” feature in the upcoming version of MS Office…the ability to save documents in PDF format! WOW, all I can say is it’s about time. They certianly did not get the idea from another well known […]
So I guess the big news of the day was that Microsoft shipped the first beta of Windows Vista. After a full day of reading reviews and looking at screenshots I was starting to confused about what I was actually looking at.
Hmmm…this sounds a little familiar:
“Instead of a Documents and Settings folder in […]
I was just reading this article at ComputerWeekly.com entitled “Microsoft to boost compatibility with open-source software”. The quote at the end is what really drew my attention:
“At LinuxWorld in San Francisco next month, Hilf is planning to demonstrate the Indigo technology in Longhorn, the next version of Windows, which he said provides standards-based communications […]
As most have seen today Steve Jobs announced today that Apple will be transitioning today from PowerPC to Intel processors. This is going to be huge…or could be huge I should say…If they play their cards right. Unfortunately it looks like Apple is going to continue to hold OS X close at hand […]
I have to admit that I have become a fan of Microsofts Channel9 project. In particular the video interviews they post. They cover a wide range of topics inside Microsoft development and most of them are fairly interesting. It’s kind of like a behind-the-scenes look into Microsoft.
Recently they have posted two […]