Downloading the Windows 7 Beta was a little more difficult than it should have been, but I was admittedly jumping the gun a little bit. The public beta was briefly posted, only to be withdrawn because the servers couldn’t keep up with demand. (It’s now back up.) Being the impatient man that I am, I … [Read more…]
So, I’ve decided to use my Saturday to geek-out and try some new computer stuff. While Microsoft is making a somewhat lackluster presentation at CES compared to the likes of Sony, Palm, and Dell which have announced slick-looking gadgets, in terms of things to try right now, two Microsoft betas have caught my attention. The … [Read more…]
Maybe Microsoft should move its headquarters to 1 Infinite Loop. This morning, while trying to send out some mail in Microsoft’s Outlook 2007, I noticed that after nearly 10 minutes, the message I tried to send was still sitting in my Outbox. When I clicked “Send/Receive,” like ya do, Outlook decided to get stuck in … [Read more…]
If you don’t have access to a Windows installation, this post is not for you (yet, Microsoft claims to be working on a Mac version), sorry! Photosynth is really cool. It’s a tool from Microsoft to visualize spatial environments using overlapping photos. It really is something else—way better than a static slideshow, it manages to … [Read more…]
Microsoft’s Office Labs has posted a tool for launching programs called SpeedLaunch. Now, there are a lot of launchers out there, as the creators of SpeedLaunch point out on their blog. What seems unique about theirs, they say, is the drag-n-drop functionality for creating shortcuts: you get a big ‘ole target in the corner of … [Read more…]
Microsoft and Apple seem to be willing to give implicit nods to one another’s products in their advertising. Apple’s MobileMe service, whose launch coincided with the iPhone 3G, billed itself on the Apple website as “Exchange for the rest of us,” referring to Microsoft’s Exchange Server. It seems to have recently cleansed its marketing copy … [Read more…]