June 25, 2008
March 4, 2008
John Resig - Unbreaking the Web
The real reason for Microsoft’s switch to web standards in IE8? John thinks he’s found it.
February 17, 2008
Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!
Posted mostly because it’s clever, but also because I miss hacking on MOD files.
February 12, 2008
YouTube - Rabbit Rescue
Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office.
February 6, 2008
Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter
From the “Are you fucking KIDDING me‽” files: After paying $350 for an XBox 360, you have to fork out another $100 to connect it to wi-fi?
February 1, 2008
List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation - Wikipedia
I’ll take “Companies that have died on the vine” for $400 please, Alex.
January 31, 2008
Windows Vista Help: Opening the Windows Vista box
Official Microsoft documentation on how to open the Vista packaging. Because it *needs* documentation.
December 17, 2007
Review: Windows XP - Coding Sanity
“I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP”
December 12, 2007
IronPython Studio
Free development environment for Python code under .NET. Will definitely be having an in-depth play with this soon.
December 4, 2007
BBC NEWS | ‘Kill switch’ dropped from Vista
“Microsoft says its efforts have seen a drop in piracy of its software.” Alternatively, the fact that no-one *wants* Vista could be a factor.
November 30, 2007
Dash Update deets revealed: DivX support, child account and Live ID problem fixed - Xbox 360 Fanboy
XBox 360 adds native DiVX playback. Between this, Rock Band and Space Giraffe, the XBox 360 is slowly tipping from “If someone gave me a free one, I’d sell it on eBay” (where the PS3 still lives) to “Hmmm… If I could pick up a cheap one….”
I’m not yet at a stage where I care enough to work out what the differences between all the different models are, though. Perfect example of the Paradox of Choice, there.
October 23, 2007
Vista Is Still Plagued by Incompatibilities - Yahoo! News
“Vista has an aroma like [Windows] ME, and I am not interested in getting sick again.” Ooh, I hadn’t thought of it that way, but it’s pretty true. Vista and ME are not dissimilar in their not-worth-the-hassle-of-upgrading-ness.
September 25, 2007
Bug in Excel 2007 - microsoft.public.excel | Google Groups
Wow — Calculations in Excel 2007 that come to 65,535 get displayed as 100,000. “Oops”
September 21, 2007
Shell Blog : The UI design minefield - er… flower field??
The problems with cultural-sensitivity when you’re shipping something worldwide.
September 4, 2007
Steven Poole - Goodbye, cruel Word
“Many people agree that revision 5.1a, specifically, was the best version of Word that Microsoft has ever shipped, combining utility and minimalist elegance with reliability. Sadly for me … I “upgraded” to Word 98, and somehow the magic was gone.”
August 28, 2007
Amazon.com: Microsoft Ladies Laptop Tote - Madison
Joy just got one of these, and it’s pretty impressive. A feminine-looking tote bag, which gives no indication that inside is plenty of padding and pockets for your laptop, powerpack, and assorted other gadgetry.
August 27, 2007
Lenovo Support & downloads - Downgrading from Windows Vista to Windows XP
Lenovo offering disks to let you “downgrade” your newly-purchased Vista-running laptop to XP. Prediction: These will be very popular.
August 20, 2007
Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Joel on Software
As someone who installed Vista on a PC in January, and regretted it for months, I echo Joel Spolsky’s summation: “I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.”
August 9, 2007
Silverlight spotted in the wild
This is the first time I've seen Microsoft's Flash-killer Silverlight plugin used on a genuine, non-Microsoft-demo website. MLB are using it to play video.
(Incidentally, how much do I regret deciding to favour getting sleep over finishing watching the game last night? Stupid west-coast games)