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Microsoft Rethinks Family Guy Tie-In
October 27, 2009 – 1:33 am | Comments
Microsoft Rethinks Family Guy Tie-In

Well, here’s another shocker. After looking over the script and attending the actual taping of "Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show" starring Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein, Microsoft pulled out …

Pink in Peril
October 13, 2009 – 2:56 am | Comments
Pink in Peril

Gizmodo, the site that broke the “leaks” about Microsoft’s “Pink” project phones a couple weeks ago, has now become rumor central about the possible (probable? predestined?) demise of Microsoft’s supposed attempt to be more …

Deja Vu All Over Again: Motorola Making Microsoft’s Mistake
October 7, 2009 – 2:32 pm | Comments
Deja Vu All Over Again: Motorola Making Microsoft’s Mistake

I find it very ironic that Motorola, in completely scorning Windows Mobile and embracing Android with their dying breath as a handset maker, is doing the same thing to Android that Microsoft allowed to …

Robbie Bach Introduces Windows Phone
October 7, 2009 – 9:07 am | Comments

Here is a video shown during Robbie Bach’s opening remarks at the Microsoft E&D Open House, 2009

Microsoft AV Released
September 30, 2009 – 10:02 am | Comments
Microsoft AV Released

I have been so busy that I had not posted anything about the release of Microsoft Security Essentials. I beta tested the product, no bad. The best thing is that it’s free and you don’t …

Ballmer Does the Numbers
September 25, 2009 – 1:57 am | Comments
Ballmer Does the Numbers

In an exclusive interview with Michael Arrington today, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer explained why Microsoft was staying out of the handset business….
So I think you can have an Apple in the phone business, or a …

Courier, the Miniature Surface Zune Tablet Emerges!
September 23, 2009 – 12:04 am | Comments
Courier, the Miniature Surface Zune Tablet Emerges!

…and it is GORGEOUS!!!
All the rumours were spot on. For all the times I have wanted to feed my hat to the fanbois at 9to5Mac, it is now off to them… they really nailed …

The Miniature Surface Zune Tablet?
September 22, 2009 – 12:47 am | Comments
The Miniature Surface Zune Tablet?

OK, forget the Giant iPod Netbook Thingie (aka the Apple Tablet), supposedly due to be announced some time real soon by Apple for release in 2010…the last 24 hours the internet has been a …

The Tide Continues to Turn…”I’m a PC”
August 29, 2009 – 3:40 pm | Comments

The New York Times this weekend is showing Microsoft yet more love and running a feature article about the way that Microsoft has been restoring it’s image. Specifically, the NYT sees the turning point as …

“Hello From Seattle”
August 19, 2009 – 1:42 pm | Comments
“Hello From Seattle”

Like all the Zunes before it, the Zune HD will also have Microsoft’s short message “Hello from Seattle” on it.  What makes it different from the others is that it has the text on the …

Windows Phone to Go Both Ways?
August 19, 2009 – 3:02 am | Comments
Windows Phone to Go Both Ways?

Digitimes is reporting that despite Steve Ballmer’s recent comments mocking Google’s double-headed Android/Chrome mobile strategy, Microsoft  itself  will try a dual platform approach when it rolls out Windows Phone (Windows Mobile 6.5 and after), …

Microsoft Confirms: Sept 15 is Zune HD Day!
August 13, 2009 – 3:39 am | Comments
Microsoft Confirms: Sept 15 is Zune HD Day!

Ina Fried, author of the excellent Beyond Binary column at cnet is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed everything we already know about the Zune HD and some very cool details that we don’t, or …

Zune HD – Standby for Preorder
August 11, 2009 – 10:24 am | Comments
Zune HD – Standby for Preorder

Well, it is getting more official by the day. Amazon now has a portal page for Zune HD preorders. The links aren’t live yet, but with the leaked release date of Sept 8th just …

Zune HD Interface Demoed
August 9, 2009 – 2:47 pm | Comments

We all knew that the Zune HD was demoed in front of the beautiful people and geek A-listers at GDGT’s recent launch party in San Francisco, only no one had managed to released any video …

Microsoft Offers Dev Guide For Porting iPhone apps to Windows Mobile
August 6, 2009 – 10:01 pm | Comments
Microsoft Offers Dev Guide For Porting iPhone apps to Windows Mobile

That’s right folks, soon all those apps that the Apple heads are rubbing in our faces will be on our Windows Mobile phones!  Microsoft has just put out a guide …

Microsoft’s browserless Windows 7 for the EU
August 3, 2009 – 6:53 am | Comments

Engadget has published today a screen shot where W7 is asking during the installation what browser do you want to use. This is done to satisfy the EU. 
The saga of Microsoft vs. the European …

Bill Gates still loves Tablet PCs
July 28, 2009 – 9:43 am | Comments

Office Online Blog recently published an article from Bill Gates where he explains how useful is Office for him. The most important tool for him is Outlook, but look what he says about his Tablet …

Bill Gates Looks Back…On Gizmodo
July 24, 2009 – 1:35 am | Comments
Bill Gates Looks Back…On Gizmodo

For the last week, Gizmodo has been running an excellent series about the world of technology back in 1979, the year that arguable the PC revolution was born. There have been lots of great …

HTC Moves Further from Windows Mobile
July 23, 2009 – 4:34 am | Comments
HTC Moves Further from Windows Mobile

At the top of the year, HTC said they would be continuing to focus on Windows Mobile phones in 2009 while diversifying with Android devices. According to Digitimes that balance will be shifting in …

“I can taste your ZUUUUUUNNE”
July 21, 2009 – 12:50 am | Comments
“I can taste your ZUUUUUUNNE”

I have loved Penny Arcade for ages (and the fact that the creators are tight with one of my personal gods, Wil Wheaton, doesn’t hurt) and normally I overlook their fanboy hate on all things …