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Windows 8

By ⋅ September 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

You can have your cake, and eat it too, but only after it is fully baked. This is my one-sentence summary of the first day keynote sessions from Microsoft’s Build conference. Build replaces the long-running Professional Developer Conference (PDC), with the most visible change being a ton of Metro-style branding: bold colours, strong typography, attention [...]

Graphics and Hot Chips

By ⋅ July 26, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve just thrown down for a new graphics card: the XFX NVidia 7900GT, and it rocks. I was tossing around the idea of a cheaper upgrade – expanding my current 6600GT to a dual 6600GT SLI setup – but was swayed by the excellent benchmarks and overclockability of the 7900GT. It saddens me that I’ve [...]

Vista Beta2 Impressions

By ⋅ May 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I had a wee play last night, and first impressions are that it’s hugely more stable than the Feb CTP, and there also seem to be fewer ‘security warning‘ boxes popping up all over the place. The ones that do pop up are more authoritative, with the background greying out and the dialog popping to [...]

Vista Rewrite Malarkey

By ⋅ March 26, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

There has been a ton of hot air circulating about a spurious claim that Microsoft is planning to rewrite “up to 60%” of Vista before release, hence the retail release delayed until 2007. Scoble jumped all over this immediately, denying everything and being hugely defensive – as you would. Not that it makes a jot [...]

Windows Live Messenger Invites

By ⋅ March 9, 2006 ⋅ 12 comments

The initial Beta of MSN Messenger 8 (now dubbed Windows Live Messenger) was a pretty nasty turd of a thing. With huge splashes of gauche ‘Web 2.0′ orange and a convoluted interface, I was pretty appalled. Luckily the latest version is great. A combination of cleaner (although still very 2.0) looks and an improved interface [...]

More Origami

By ⋅ March 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

No news really, but the Origami hype is growing, despite Robert Scoble’s best attempts to douse the flames. We now have some dubious mockup pics on Engadget, and Scoble’s latest post is more anti-hype: My bet is still on an underpowered tablet.

Cloudy Vista

By ⋅ March 5, 2006 ⋅ 9 comments

I don’t like to sound like a total copycat of all the other doubters, but to me, the February CTP build of Windows Vista can be summarised thusly: Just like XP but a bit more sexy looking and a bit slower and less responsive (this is with the sexy ‘Aero’ interface running on a NVidia [...]

Microsoft Gadgets

By ⋅ September 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Scoble points to a new site entitled Microsoft Gadgets. At first glance this looks like a Microsoft version of Konfabulator, but the details in the initial post seem to be a bit vague. “Gadgets” seem to be something available in Windows Vista, and can appear in three places: Windows Sidebar: as far as I can [...]

Microsoft Longhorn Announcement Tomorrow?

By ⋅ July 22, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

Robert Scoble lays the bait: … and in other news, Duke Nukem launch date announced… Update: Ugh. Stand down. Boring. Apparently it’s just an announcement that The Operating System Formerly Known as Longhorn, is going to be officially named Windows Vista. The anticlimaxes come thick and fast with Longhorn don’t they? As far as I [...]

RRS on IE7 on Longhorn

By ⋅ June 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s hard to say whether this is hugely interesting or totally irrelevant. I mean of course Microsoft’s next browser would have RSS integration. Can you imagine the uproar if they left it out? Even so, the geeks at Gnomedex seem to be foaming over this. Microsoft seem to be playing nice by releasing their extensions [...]

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