The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
It seems everyone these days is piling on the criticism of Microsoft and making outlandish claims about The Borg’s imminent demise. I won’t go so far as the headline-trolling Gartner conference and declare Windows to be collapsing, but I will say the news coming out about Redmond’s future product development has to be making Apple [...]
If you take two turds and mash them together, how likely is it that the result won’t end up resembling something turd-like? Not very it seems, but that’s exactly what Yahoo! and Time Warner are discussing in heated, desperate meetings right this hour.
If news reports are to be believed, the search engine and web portal [...]
Just when you thought it couldn’t get much worse for HD-DVD, it got worse: Wal-Mart announced today it is dumping the high definition format in favor of Blu-Ray. The bad news caps a week of bad news that included Netflix announcing it would exclusively carry Blu-Ray and a plan by Best Buy to showcase Blu-Ray [...]
Microsoft has had it up to here. They are sick and tired of people ragging on their operating system, making fun of Windows Live, and laughing at MSN. They are through playing second fiddle to Google. The gauntlet has been dropped.
In a last-ditch attempt to rule the Interwebs, the Borg has offered $44 billion to [...]
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer was in San Francisco today attending the CTIA conference because apparently the Windows maker is very keen on this whole new mobile phone thing. And by that I mean they watched Apple steal a huge chunk of a market they had no interest in, which then of course created interest. (Please [...]
Software giant Microsoft has been investing heavily in trying to develop software for the robotics sector and now it looks like that investment is about to pay off. The company has announced a partnership with Tmsuk, one of Japan’s largest robot makers, to develop a standard OS for robots of the future.
Expect to see [...]
Computer security experts revealed late last week that Microsoft’s new Vista operating system has a bug that could make PCs vulnerable to attack. Well surprise, surprise; I didn’t see that one coming.
The problem affects Vista’s e-mail client, Windows Mail, and could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on an unsuspecting user’s computer. Of course, [...]
If we were cooler, or richer, or better looking, I’m sure we would have been at CES gawking over the latest and greatest electronic gadgets all weekend long. As it turns out, we’re just a dull bunch of geeks stuck far from the action. Luckily, though, some top bloggers from Engadet, Joystiq, Gizmodo, and Ubergizmo [...]
