Microsoft
Day 1 CES Meta-Coverage
Why can’t consumer electronics companies get it through their heads that they are not Apple, and they do not have to be Apple to be successful? I read some of the hype before the Microsoft CES keynote, and was genuinely interested in seeing what they had cooking in tablet-land.
You see, Microsoft and their partners have [...]
Another Opinion on Bing/News Corp
Dan Lyons over at Newsweek also writes a column on this deal. He goes at it from the angle that this is going to do the opposite of what everybody thinks it is going to do: seriously drive traffic away, and not from Google.
More On the Microsoft / News Corp. Deal
Businessweek has an article that brings up many of the same points I had, just with more authority. I still do not see how this deal benefits either company in the long-term.
Microsoft Will Not Save the News Industry
For those owners of websites who do not want their content indexed by google, please edit your robots.txt file and shut up about it.
Which leads me to today’s bombshell news: News Corp is probably going to yank their search results from Google and sell them to Bing. This is just such a bad idea, on [...]
Vista Makes Me Angry
There are probably a million posts like this, lamenting the ills that Microsoft has wrought upon the earth with this miserable excuse of an OS. I am going to pile on for cathartic reasons.
In my home I have 2 Macs that have at their various stages of life run Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard. One [...]
Is October 22nd Really Party Time?
There are few things that drive me to drinking quicker than bad marketing. I’m not saying this is bad marketing, but for some reason it is not making me want to run out and buy Windows 7.
I have been using Windows 7 since the first release candidate, and have decided it is my new favorite [...]
