Category: Microsoft

  • Congrats Hugh

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    Good friend and fellow blogger Hugh MacLeod has announced that he is now working with Microsoft. In a follow-on post, Hugh explains his reasons for doing so very clearly – Hugh, who coined the phrase the Global Microbrand, wants to now take his marketing philosophy and see if it can scale to mega corp size!…

  • My move from OS X to Vista – Day 3

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    I know it is a cliche that you don’t really realise just how much you love something until it is gone but I am proving that true with this move to Vista from OS X! What is it that I miss so much? Exposé! Exposé is a fabulous, much underrated feature of OS X whereby…

  • My move from OS X to Vista – Day 1

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    This is my first blog post from within Vista – I’ll try to put up a post a day on the move across. Of course I am also moving from a Mac to a Sony Vaio so I will also be referencing that move in these posts. The first thing I had to do when…

  • Switching from OS X to Vista (kinda)

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    Microsoft gave me a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista Ultimate and Office Ultimate installed to try out. I have been toying with the Vaio but not using it heavily. To be fair to Microsoft, I’m going to try to switch as much as possible of my work from my MacBook Pro to the Vaio to…

  • Vista Explorer crash

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    I found another bug in Vista this morning. In an attempt to tidy the desktop, I right-clicked on the ppt file Microsoft left on the desktop and chose Send To -> Documents to move this file off the desktop. Windows Explorer crashed. Reproducibly. And then restarted itself. I dragged the file into the Documents folder…

  • Getting a Vaio

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    Microsoft Belgium rang me yesterday (I don’t think they realised it was a public holiday here!). I did some consultancy for Microsoft Belgium last November and at the time they asked me if I’d be interested in participating in a program where they send out laptops pre-loaded with Vista. The aim of the program is…

  • Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition running on my Mac!

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    Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is Microsoft’s free version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio Lite, if you will). I installed it on my Mac to see if it would install and run ok – as you can see above, it runs fine! I now have the lite/free versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server…

  • Apple capitalising on Microsoft's failings

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    AppleInsider is reporting that Apple’s sales of Mac computers in January is up over 100% on January ’06. The article goes on to say: sales of Mac notebooks grew 194 percent year-over-year in January with a rising ASP that drove 221 percent revenue growth in the segment. “January was the third-largest revenue month for Mac…