Question...

If I have a photo that is of higher resolution than my monitor, why is Vista too stupid to scale it down proportionally so I can see it as my desktop background without it being distorted? Doesn’t it seem that something this trivial would have made it in to a product that took more...

NBC's Shows on Zun...

I just read the article below, stating that Zune owners will be able to purchase NBC television shows for … wait for it … $1.99 per episode. Hmm. If I recall correctly, wasn’t that the same price they were on iTunes before Jeff Zucker decided to walk away? If Microsoft...

The "Notable Chang...

Even the page which documents well over 100 of just the “notable” updates in Vista SP1 has a bug in...

Thoughts on Mix, Ballme...

I am a software developer and architect (currently using Microsoft technologies) so of course I was interested to watch the sessions from the MIX conference that just happened last week in Las Vegas. Incidentally, I visited the on-demand web site for MIX using my default browser (Safari...

Vista SP1: Not What it ...

I read three reviews today (and saw several more headlines when I Google’d “vista sp1 review”) that talked about the first service pack for Vista being – what amounts to, I suppose – nothing to get excited about. Don’t take my word for it, read the...

Google's Statement...

It’s very fascinating to me how differently peoples’ minds react after reading the exact same thing. It all depends on many things, of course, including your state of mind when you read it as well as your history with the subject matter. One of those seems a little more...

100 Million Copies of V...

After Bill Gates mentioned that Vista has sold 100,000,000 copies so far during his speech at CES, I didn’t really react one way or the other. But now that a couple of days have passed, I find myself wondering: How many of those are actually in use? Do those include the free...

Bill Gates on Windows...

It’s really fascinating when the head of a company says stuff like this about their flagship...

LinkedIn – Anyone...

About 18 months ago my sister suggested I create a LinkedIn profile and build up my network, which I did over the course of about 10 months. Then I stopped using the site because it wasn’t giving me anything besides the opportunity to say that I have X number of people in my...

iPhone Already Beat All...

I read this today and just couldn’t believe it. I thought for sure it would take at least a year for the iPhone to outsell all of the Windows Mobile form factors (and I thought I was being aggressive) but it took only a few months?  Does anyone have any other market data that would...