“We broke a lot of things. We know that, and we know it caused you a lot of pain.” That’s what Brad Brooks said about Windows Vista on the Worldwide Partner Conference. So what’s Microsoft’s plan? They’re launching a new advertising campaign! It even includes a TV response ad to Apple’s famous “I’m a Mac,… Read more »
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MS Madness
Checking my Windows Updates this week, I found a patch, titled “Update to Windows Vista (KB955020)”. After my recent upgrade problems I check every update offered by Microsoft. Well, according to this article, the update adds the words, such as “Friendster,” “Klum,” “Nazr,” “Obama,” and “Racicot” to the dictionary to prevent applications from underlining the… Read more »
RAVE on…
I recently read an article in the May edition of Outdoor Photographer, that described the Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE) project. The idea behind it is to document endangered areas of the world by sending in photographers, who would come back with material used for awareness campaigns. The area described in the article, as one… Read more »
Vista Still Sucks
It’s no secret. Even Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer said that the latest Windows Vista is a “work in progress”. I was hoping that at least some of the problems, such as extremely slow file transfers & operations, network connection issues, and others, would be fixed in Service Pack 1. Of course, SP1 release itself was plagued… Read more »
Gimme PHP
Sun integrated PHP support into its popular NetBeans IDE. Personally, I prefer NuSphere PHPEd for all my PHP projects, but more options don’t hurt. Especially given how integrated PHP is supposed to become with Java 6!