I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC. We’ve all seen the ads. Well PC just got a nice upgrade. For those of us who are sick of IE, fed up with FireFox, and not quite getting used to Google Chrome there is now another option on the table. Safari, by Apple.
Safari 4 was just released and it’s available for both PC and Mac. Check it out here:
If you’re like me and missed the Windows 7 beta download period, you’ll be happy to know that starting tomorrow you can get your hands on the Windows 7 Release Candidate straight from Microsoft’s Windows 7 website. The download will be available through July of this year, and will run until sometime in 2010.
I’m looking forward to giving this a spin. I haven’t tried it yet but from what I’ve heard it’s definitely a lot better than Vista AND XP. That’s exactly what I hope turns out to be the case.
I’m sick of all of the antitrust laws surrounding Microsoft. So they have a corner in a market or two. That’s an understatement, but, even so. They also created the operating system used by most of the world. If they don’t want to make their OS compatible or convenient to use with certain Google applications, that should be their perogative.
In a recent court ruling, Microsoft will not be forced to allow users to disable the default built in Windows Desktop Search in the new Windows Vista to allow users to use Google Desktop Search instead. Boo hoo Google. Maybe if you guys go and make your own OS you can build your own software into it. Microsoft is doing nothing more than smart business. Microsoft is anti-Google so why would they make their software Google friendly? It’s annoying, sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that Google has no right to demand that Microsoft make accomodations for them. That’s like crashing somebody’s party unwanted and expecting them to serve you drinks.
Nonetheless, the courts have ruled in Google’s favor due to the antitrust laws and agreements that Microsoft has apparently agreed to.
Source: Yahoo
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (arch rivals of course) recently shared a stage. Oddly enough they both seem to be saying several good things about eachother. The two companies definitely have both grown as a result of their constant competition. Of course competition leads to innovation and innovation leads to more competition. It’s an endless cycle. Apple of course owes a lot to Microsoft for helping it stay afloat 10 years ago. Microsoft invested $100 million dollars in Apple. The commentators on this video have some good comments.
Anyway check out the video. It’s a cool piece of nerd history. If anybody finds the full video of the session please let me know. I’d love to see it.
Ok, I added the “4evR” part but today a guy rushed the stage of a Bill Gates speech in China. He held a sign that read (In English) “Free Software Open Source”. Of course punks and nerds everywhere thought this was awesome. These same people are the people who hate Microsoft and think that they are a monopoly. Well this is just my opinion, but I personally do not have any problems with how Microsoft does business. Sure some of their software is overpriced, but who’s to say what the price should be?
As far as I’m concerned, if you can sell it for a high price more power to you. Sure Microsoft buys out smaller open source projects only to encrypt the code and sell it later for a profit. So? That’s called business. Open source has its’ place but if somebody has the money to buy it and sell it then why should that be a reason to hate them? It’s our own fault if Microsoft has become so rich and powerful. 99% of the world uses Windows operating systems.
Microsoft has already started working towards their next major operating system code named Vienna, and claims that the new OS should ship in late 2009. Microsofts current flagship product, Vista, took 6 years to bring to market even though Microsoft had planned on a 2005 release. They blamed these delays on security holes in Windows XP that required them to shift their workforce to fill the XP gaps instead of working on Vista. So that’s only 2 years away. Can we all get by on Windows XP until then?
Well, zero hour has finally come and Windows Vista is here. I’ll be the first to say that I’ve finally gotten my first real solid reason for hating Microsoft. I feel like I’ve been alienated by their absolutely pitiful launch strategy, and I for one am not even going to think about updating to Vista until the prices are almost cut in half. Rediculous. Absolutely rediculous.
Let me get this straight. The people that are going to be looking to buy Vista at launch are the users that are considered ‘power users’. They’re the only ones who are gonna get geeked enough to run out to the midnight madness sales and buy Vista. However, to get the OS they’re expecting(with all the features that make it worthwhile to get rid of XP)…the OS that they NEED to be able to do the things they need/want to do, they have to spend $400. FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!!!! I feel alienated. I feel screwed. I feel abused. Needless to say, I’m sticking with XP for as long as I possibly can. Here’s why you should too.
Here’s a nice bit of dirt on Microsoft. While I’m a fan of Microsoft, and I use a lot of their software, I’m not going to let this one go. Earlier this morning, DaringFireball.net posted a very nice find on Microsoft.com. The error has since been corrected, but screenshots exist, and they will be used in this case to call out the guilty.
Microsoft apparently has a very lazy graphic designer on staff. And by very lazy, I mean he (or she) was probably fired today. The logo above was taken from Apple’s website under Industry-Leading Management Tools. And by taken, I mean by Microsoft.
Earlier today, a page in the Vista business section of Microsoft.com featured that exact same logo. Well, not exactly.. It was slightly bigger and skewed ever so slightly.
