Entries Tagged as ‘Microsoft’

October 24, 2006

How the PS3 Games Are Looking…

There are several articles out there from the press about he PS3 and the numerous pre-launch events taking place.  One of the big topics on everyone’s mind is HOW the games will look, and more importantly, how do they compare to the X360.  I’ve read through a few articles and this sentence sums up what [...]

October 19, 2006

IE 7 is Released

M$ released their “updated” browser today, officially.  Here’s a “bottom line” review from ZDNet:
The bottom line: IE 7 was Microsoft’s one chance to
leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely
caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and
greater security, switch to Mozilla Firefox.

September 27, 2006

Microsoft’s Free Network Sniff Tool

Network Monitor 3.  For free…

August 24, 2006

Microsoft Product Key Updater

This could be a useful tool…  Link.

August 24, 2006

Startup sound in Vista

Scobleizer has an article on the startup sound in Vista and how the user will not be able to turn it off.  Yes…it’ll be a mandatory sound that you have no control over.  I’m thinking someone, somewhere will hack this quickly and put out a patch.  It’s an interesting read, as the M$ team is [...]

August 18, 2006

113 Run Commands

Nice list of 113 “run” commands in Windows.  Link.

August 5, 2006

Evolution

If you haven’t seen or used Evolution yet (on your linux desktop), you need to.  It’s basically a free Outlook.  Anyway, a developer has ported this software over to Windows.  I’ll be installing this next week to see how it works and compares to Tunderbird.

June 30, 2006

On IE and Website Design

Take a look at this graph and you’ll see why IE sucks so bad.  This is exactly what designers go through when trying to get a site to work with IE.

May 29, 2006

Resetting Windows Passwords

An article on resetting passwords in most flavors of Windows, with links to respective tools.  Check it.

May 27, 2006

Huge Gamer’s Cafe

Holy crap!  This has got to be the badass of all gaming cafe’s in the world.  Howie’s Game Shack is located in Southern California and contains over 200 computers and 45 Xbox 360 stations, all with big-screen TVs attached.  The guy who wrote this article said he waited 30 mins. for a computer station to [...]

May 3, 2006

Microsoft is dead

John Dvorak has written a great article over at MarketWatch.com regarding eight ways that Microsoft is “dead in the water.”  It’s a small, yet  to the point article with great insight.  In summary, Microsoft has become to big and has forgotten their roots:
I see a company that has settled in and has become big, profitable, [...]

May 3, 2006

Microsoft wants in at Yahoo!

It seems that Microsoft wants to buy a rather large piece of Yahoo.  I don’t know what this will mean for Yahoo’s future (besides the monetary value) but I’m glad that I moved all my email and searching to Google.