Apr 25, 2006 | blog
Gosh!
(I Don’t know how else to express it in a family friendly way.) 🙂
They’ve polished up the rough edges from the last time I loaded the beta 2 preview! I’d loaded up the previous build awhile ago and had really enjoyed the great new features (tabs, integrated RSS, pop-up blocker, phishing filter, etc…). On the other hand, endured the performance hits of early beta and anomaly’s that come with test software.
This version however, is feature complete and performs that way as well. Check out the IE homepage to download and give it a try – IE7 beta2 is fully supported by MS at this point, and should be experienced to be believed.
Mar 22, 2006 | blog
So who out there hasn’t heard that the consumer release of Windows Vista has slipped again?
I’m not going to rant on Micrsoft about this – I’m one of those people that belives that any product destined to reside on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide should be as close to perfect as possible.
Kudos Microsoft!
The important thing with an OS upgrade with the scope of Vista is stability. As both a corporate IT architect and a home consumer of MS producs, I have an expectation of technology. Usually I’m the one that accepts the glitches, the anomolies, the problems with most software. I simply either work around them, or understand that that is how the program simply “works”, or don’t even notice. To be precise, I understand how it works and accept the faults as a matter of course.
This outlook of mine has started to change in the last few months or so, and with Vista I’ve changed my expectations more than I thought I ever would. More and more, I am using technology for a reason, not simply because technology is cool. There are tons of cool things out there, electronics, software, golf clubs, whatever… but this time cool isn’t going to cut it. I am anticipating not just “the most stable version of Windows yet” (which incidentally I’ve already had several times – NT, Win98, W2K, XP), but the most usable system as well.
Well here is looking forward to the future – it’ll be closer to a year from now to walk into the store and pick up a retail version of Vista, but it should be worth it.
As an aside – when the public preview comes out, you should try the new OS out. It is definitely different, though not radically so, and will take quite a bit of getting used to.
Mar 8, 2006 | blog
Have you checked out Windows Live this morning? Apparently Microsoft updated the Live site code durning the night last night as Robert Scoble mentioned. This is a very impressive upgrade, lots of nice improvements to the already steamlined interface. Recommend you check it out!
Via: Scobleizer
Feb 28, 2006 | blog
Want to see something cool? Scoble has linked to a very neat prototype site that Microsoft Live.com is working on. An actual street-level view of San Francisco and Seattle (more cities to come), where you can move down most any street and see not only “storefronts” but the actual street-level-views as if you were walking or driving the street. Very cool.
This is the kind of stuff that Microsoft is good at and should leverage more often. My hat is off to MS on this one – very nicely done & performance was quite good as well.
Thank you Robert!
Via: Scobleizer
Feb 13, 2006 | blog
CNET News.com is reporting that Microsoft is “pushing ahead” with its mobile email technology offereing. While brought to market later than RIM’s powerful BlackBerry platform, it still see’s a large viable market for their product offering.
Via: CNET News.com
