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- Blu-ray vs HD DVD: final bonus round
- Blu-ray vs HD DVD: final bonus roundActually, why did *either* PS3 or Xbox have HD?Microsoft has a long history of half-hearted support of lots of stuff. No surprise there. If they weren't so big their endorsements would be meaningless. If they had taken Sony's approach and required the HD DVD,...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Sony TV, Sony Corp., HD-DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-01-06
- Microsoft hints at Vista SP1 beta in August
- I’ve steered clear of the Vista SP1 snipe hunt so far, partly because Mary Jo seems to be doing a pretty good job of it, and partly because the hype and accompanying unreasonable expectations around SP1 are getting extreme. If history is any guide, SP1 will fix some annoyances. It will correct...
- Tags: Direct3D, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Hasta la Vista, Nvidia
- If you own an Nvidia display adapter and you run Windows Vista, I have good news and bad news.The good news? Nvidia has released another update of its drivers for 32–bit and 64–bit Vista. ForceWare Release 162 was posted to Nvidia’s website on July 26.The bad news? The list of...
- Tags: Windows Vista, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Samsung adds 3D technology to its High Definition DLP TV
- Samsung adds 3D technology to its High Definition DLP TVWhat about programmingLooks great, but where are you going to find 3D programming? The PC can't create a 3D signal from a 2D program. Video games, their video being created in the PC, can be created in either 2D or 3D....
- Tags: image quality, DLP, 3D, 2D, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Not one, but two Windows service packs
- Late last night, the U.S. and state attorneys leading the enforcement effort in the antitrust judgment against Microsoft filed their latest joint status report (a PDF copy of the report is available via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which also has a tidy wrap-up).I’m still reading the report, but these two tidbits...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista
- Coming in late? Catch up with the Day 1 and Day 2 installments. The executive summary: I’m documenting my experience with a new Dell C521 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A buggy BIOS update delivered by the Dell Support tool caused a catastrophic hardware failure on Day 1, but after...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?
- Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Microsoft's licensing mess
- If you've been selling a product for more than 10 years and you've shipped hundreds of millions of units, you'd think your customers would know what they're buying. For Microsoft, that's not the case.The culprit is the hopelessly confusing, practically Byzantine Windows licensing structure, which consists of a maze of...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Are ATI and Nvidia doing enough with their Vista drivers?
- I spent the weekend setting up some new hardware. One change was to add a PCI Express graphics card to a system that had been using onboard graphics primarily so I could use two monitors with it.After completing the upgrade, I noticed that this ATI X1300 card was still using...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Can RIAA really make a case against students/schools?
- Can RIAA really make a case against students/schools?A questionAre educational institutions responsible for ensuring that public facilities are not used for illegal purposes? In other words, if a student uses campus email to send threats to others, does the university have any responsibility to stop such actions? If not, then...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, RIAA, P2P, music
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- On the road with Windows Vista
- I’m away on vacation this week, nearly 7,000 miles from home. But I’m not out of touch. Judy and I have been coming to Italy for the past five years, and it’s instructive to see with each visit just how much the experience of leisure travel has changed for use...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Is AMD serious about delivering open source graphics drivers for ATI products?
- Last week, Henri Richard, AMD’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, told an audience at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit promised open source graphics drivers for ATI products. Richards is quoted as saying “I’m here to commit to you that it’s going to get done.” ...
- Tags: AMD
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Facebook Classifieds? NOT 'Another Blow for Newspapers'
- A “Canadian take on telecom and technology” fears a New York Times story titled “Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds” signals “Another Blow for Newspapers”:Mark Evans: For anyone looking to reach an audience of 22 million active users (many of them young people who don’t read newspapers), this is a huge...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Facebook, classifieds
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- MySpace brings online town halls to campuses, but is this just another online debate?
- MySpace announced today that it will host a series of "Town Hall" candidates meetings on college campuses, Reuters reports. The meetings will feature all of the major candidates, including Clinton, Obama, McCain, Edwards, Guiliani, Romney and Thompson. The meetings will be broadcast on MySpace video and MySpace users will...
- Tags: Instant messaging, MySpace, online debate, Micah Sifry
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!
- Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click. Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family,...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Racing Towards the Future, Stuck in the Past: Microsoft BI Moves… Not Far Enough
- Attending Microsoft’s first Business Intelligence Conference has been an illuminating experience, mostly for how Microsoft’s major strengths in BI are becoming its major weaknesses. The issue is one that I’ve ranted about in the past, and it’s an industry-wide problem, not just Microsoft’s. After a day sitting through the pre-conference...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Army backtracks somewhat on blogging restrictions
- Last week, we wrote that the Army had issued new, restrictive rules around so-called milblogging, rules that forbid blog or photo posting without prior approval from a commander. And the rules applied to family members and private contractors, as well as active personnel. Now it looks like the Army...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Digg: What does it really stand for?
- Is Digg’s Kevin Rose really defiantly standing up to the man, the other man, that is, in his now infamous rallying cry to his million strong band of Diggers of other people’s content: “If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”Are Rose and partner Jay...
- Tags: Digg, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- First look: Mindjet MindManager 7
- Mindjet announced yesterday that MindManager 7 will be released on May 30. Ive been using the pre-release version for a couple of weeks and have have found it very easy to use and stable enough, even in pre-release form, that it’s replaced version 6 on both my Tablet PC and...
- Tags: Windows, Tablet PCs, Software, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Windows Vista = Windows Me II?
- Is Windows Vista going to be a repeat of the Windows Me marketing and sales disaster that Microsoft experienced back on 2000?Over the past few weeks Ive come across a number of articles on tech sites that are putting Windows Vista and Windows Me in the same sentence. Not...
- Tags: Industry, Marketing, Microsoft, Software, Thoughts, Trends, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
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