Category Archive: Microsoft

Sep 24 2009

what is it with Microsoft?

There are 3 Comments for this post.Microsoft is trying to – well I have no idea what it is trying to do – I guess make sure people actually buy Windows 7 as opposed to Vista which people pretty much avoided like the plague unless they were forced to use it as it came preinstalled …

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Mar 20 2009

Windows FAIL again

There are 5 Comments for this post.I know it isn’t really news but … You have got to love Microsoft – well, no, you don’t, indeed you should hate it. I was reading about IE8 and got to the end of the article to find that it would take 30 minutes to install: After downloading …

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Apr 17 2008

internal motivational video

There are 2 Comments for this post.This is an internal motivational video from Microsoft. It’s quite scary and funny and desperate all at once. Vista SP 1 – now a whole world of new things won’t work with Vista FacebookTwitteremail

Oct 25 2007

harsh reflections

There is 1 Comment for this post.Sometimes it is necessary to bite the bullet and comment on things that are just wrong, broken, unsettling, disappointing. Sometimes life is full of harsh reflections. These are such times. *cough* I am talking about the latest design fad that has come of of Apple Inc. and is being …

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Jun 21 2007

big arse table

There are 0 Comments for this post.Surface is something suitably hideous from Microsoft – Apple can do multitouch on a phone – Microsoft can do it on a huge table. I think it sums up the difference between the two companies just wonderfully. The table requires back projectors and [overhead?] sensors. Anywho – sarcastic gamers …

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May 11 2007

And in the Red Corner – oFone from Microsoft

There are 0 Comments for this post.Not content with making something in brown, now it’s time to make something round. Microsoft have hit the ground running with their answer to the iPhone – and moving forward in all ways they chose the next vowel for their next gen phone and made the oFone!! [MS Windows …

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