Entries Tagged as 'microsoft'
All Things D
Well today’s the day, at various points two things I’ve been interested to hear will be happening at D5. First up at 11:30 PST is that Jeff Hawkins should be introducing his all singing, all dancing new product that will hopefully reverse Palm’s current fortunes. Palm says this will be a “new category of mobile [...]
Microsoft v. Free Software
If there was any question about Microsoft’s stance on Free Software (and really, there wasn’t) this ought to settle it. Microsoft is claiming that free software violates 235 of its patents and it wants royalties from distributors and users. It was obvious that this was coming given their recent Novell deal.
The piece is surprisingly pro [...]
Categories: free software · microsoft
Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
Wow, just saw the 18% jump in YHOO and found that Microsoft just asked Yahoo to enter in serious negotiations (MSFT down near 1%). I’d be sad if that happened, as it’d really be the end of an era. Would Yahoo turn into MSN Yahoo? or Active Yahoo? Yahoo 360? Sigh. And ultimately I don’t [...]
VBA for Mac goes away
I came across this post about Microsoft stopping Visual Basic support in Office for Mac (via df). Joel gives a pretty interesting history of VBA support on macintosh and suggests that a fundamental goal of it was building a lock-in to their system. Because the process of building their VBA enivornment was so monumental a [...]
Deepfish, in Deepsh**?
I posted a little bit ago about Microsoft’s new experimental browser, Deepfish. Well Gizmodo got their hands on it and put it through the paces, check out the link for a video and their thoughts. Pretty much everything you thought was going to be a problem was - all stemming from the strange notion of [...]
Categories: microsoft
Deepfish, interesting but crappy
I just read about Microsoft’s new mobile browser, Deepfish. I watched the video and contemplated. I think it’s an interesting idea - basically taking the google maps tile approach for zooming and scrolling and applying that to the web. It seems to give a pretty decent experience although the zooming interface itself is pretty clunky, [...]
Categories: microsoft
Pinch This
I was just talking with Scott the other day about this whole multi touch thing, in particular about the general utility of multi touch screens. I’m of the camp that while if Steve Jobs decided that multi touch were the way and we should all give up out keyboards and pinch and zoom our way [...]
Categories: microsoft · the future · the love
A Li’l ZenZui Beefin’
After my post yesterday, I was perusing the ZenZui product page a little bit and it really started to annoy me. First off, I really love that a Microsoft site gets bitten by the ol’ Microsoft copy-and-paste to web problem where all single and double quotes turn into question marks (I know it isn’t technically [...]
ZenZui. Eh.
So the world is a twitter with ZenZui, Microsoft’s spinoff company with a new phone interface for surfing the web. Check out any of those links and watch the video of it in action, then come back. I’ll wait… I don’t really understand the fuss about this, it’s pretty and cool for sure, but it’s [...]
Breakfast Links: Sidewalk bell, Microsoft and Spinvox
First off, I totally had this idea a long time ago, except for in my brain this wasn’t a bicycle bell it was a car horn. But I guess if you’re in Japan a bell works just fine. I love how everyone just moves aside, even the ones who notice that he’s not actually on [...]
