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Feedback: Latest version of Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta)
This post is directed to the Windows Live Writer team! I really enjoy the WLW tool for blogging, in fact I’ve been using the latest build since it was released a week or so ago and have not blogged about it.
I could rave about all the features, but I’ll simply say that the tagging, category [...]
Wall Street Analyst Says: Microsoft Likely to Ship Vista On Time! - Hell to freeze over tomorrow.
Will wonders never cease - another idiot analyst on the Street finally thinks that MS will ship Vista on schedule.
This isn’t news - this is obvious.
Link to Microsoft Likely to Ship Vista On Time: Analyst
Neowin.net - Volume Activation 2.0: Another Potential Vista Gotcha?
Well, this is one piece of Windows Vista that I had not heard much on. It seems that corporations planning on deploying Vista will require a mechanism to validate or “Authenticate” their Vista installs similar to how retail versions of XP need to be authenticated.
For those who’ve yet to hear about it, Volume Activation [...]
msmobiles.com - There is no place for Microsoft in the future of mobile phones - according to BBC
HA!
Typical BBC, and msmobiles.com is correct in its analysis of their bias against practically anything American. The left-leaning aspect is disappointing as well (to say the least), but that’s what you get from most any large news organization.
At the same time, I do have to recognize the BBC as a very good world-leader in news [...]
Comment Spam
Well, I’ve updated my comment spam monitor to filter a few more spammers that seem to have slipped through.
Its though enough as it is without idiots like these spammers hitting a personal blog. What is there to gain from targeting personal blogs?
Ugh, I guess I should really focus my disappointment towards the real idiots that [...]
Go Away Gartner
Is anyone else tired of listening to Gartner Study reports? Their ability to state the obvious is amazing, even to me.
Every time my employer starts looking at a new technology or a solution, the typical, tired, old Gartner report is trotted out to parade around in front of the execs to demonstrate how useful or [...]
New Horizons
Well I’ve had about enough - with work that is. Seems like whenever someone doesn’t understand something and is unable to stretch or grow, that they simply choose to say no. Or “prove it to me”.
HA! Pay attention and you may get it some year.
I’ve got more to say, but it’ll have to wait - work [...]
The Dumbing Down of the Smartphone User
Antoine Wright over at Brighthand makes a great point on the industry needing to meet needs of the average user by simplifying the smartphone/pda devices. In his article Looking Down the Wrong End of the Barrel: How PDAs Got It All Wrong, he discusses how sophisticated devices such as the Palm and Pocket PC [...]
Router Issues
Along with this heat wave in the upper midwest, it seems my home wireless router may be on the fritz. It keeps cycling through reboots (or so it seems).
We’ve had about a week and a half of record, or near-record high temps, making it very hard on everyone. Not too easy to keep cool, and [...]
Some people will never understand blogs
I was convinced of that today during a meeting at work. I’ve been planting the blogging seeds at work for several months, with some success at the IT management level, but was reminded quite aggressively by a coworker that some people have a real hard time with something new.
To some people, change brings disruption, [...]
