Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a Virtual Machine
So Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been released and you want to try it out? You can download it and format your hard drive or dual-boot but those options are no fun, right? Well luckily I will show you how to set up a virtual machine and install Windows 8. If you’ve ever installed Windows you will be able to do this even if you don’t know what a virtual machine is. Read the rest of this article…
Microsoft Officially Killing Off Windows Live and Zune?
It’s been a few months since we first heard about the rumors that Microsoft would be killing the Zune brand but this is the first we’ve heard of killing the Windows Live brand. People are learning from the upcoming Consumer Preview release of Windows 8 that Windows Live and Zune are being phased out for a more straight forward naming convention.
Yikes, Microsoft Taking Another Stab at Google
Earlier this month we posted a video where Microsoft was ripping Google’s Gmail service a new one. Now Microsoft is taking another stab at Google but this time it’s about Google Apps. Read the rest of this article…
Office For iPad Highlights Microsoft’s Biggest Problem
The internet got very excited yesterday with the leaked photo of Office running on an iPad. For those who have been productive in the past decade, you’re familiar with Microsoft’s industry-standard productivity tools, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, that have kept all of us up through resume building, crappy yard sale flyers, and dire corporate meetings. The company has come out and said that the leaked photo is fake, with the ‘truth to be unveiled in the next few weeks’, but it’s this slow, hesitant attitude to rival platforms that highlights Microsoft’s biggest problem: they’re not on top anymore.
Spotify Is Killing Me; Xbox Live Music Can’t Come Soon Enough
It wasn’t long after Spotify’s Facebook Timeline functionality was unveiled in late September that I gave up on the Zune Pass service that I’d been using for four and a half years. Unfortunately, while Spotify has a social edge, their rubbish software (primarily the Android app) is killing me.
Microsoft Unveils New Windows 8 Logo. It’s Awful.
Microsoft’s fallen into an odd position. From its re-introduction of Windows Phone while trying to recover Windows sales (after Vista failed to ignite like XP did) to the creeping threat that their dominance of the desktop isn’t going to matter too much going forward, Microsoft has had a lot on its plate. As part of their Windows 8 reinvention, the company unveiled a new logo that fits their new post-PC strategy with the OS.
I hate it.
Microsoft Updating Bing Vision with Newspaper Match this March
While Microsoft continues enhancing and pushing Windows Phone 7, one feature that has been in my opinion, one of Windows Phone’s top features is their Bing Vision search. Now, Google Goggles provides a similar experience, essentially an app that allows you to scan QR codes, bar codes, or an image/landmark to search instances of the object on the web, however Bing Vision works more dynamically and in my testings provides more useful results. One such example is if I open Bing Vision over the front of a Book, the app will immediately pull up a link for the book in Amazon where I can go and purchase the book. This kind of search provides a quick and simple way to comparison shop or easily purchase a product.
Anonymous Planning to Take Down Root DNS Servers
In protest of SOPA, Wall Street, irresponsible government leaders and bankers, Anonymous plans to take down the 13 DNS root servers on March 31st. These are the main servers responsible for knowing what domain goes to what IP address all the time. Read the rest of this article…
Apple: We Are Drunk On Power. Also: We’re Suing You.
The ghost of John Sculley haunts the halls of Cupertino. As Apple descended from greatness during his reign in the late 80s and early 90s against the rising tide of IBM-compatible personal computers, one of his clarion calls (borrowed from Jobs) was that Microsoft had stolen the look and feel of the first commercially available graphical user interface (GUI) from them. Developed for Lisa, an expensive disaster, and Macintosh, Steve Jobs’ pet project in the mid-80s, Apple believed that a mouse-driven interface – rather than a text-driven one – was their gift to humanity. In court, they fought that their GUI and its broad ‘look and feel’ was a good enough defense to fend off Microsoft’s increasingly-popular Windows operating system and extract hundreds of millions of dollars in victory dollars, if not more.
After six years, Apple lost that war, but they’ve learned enough to become litigious jerkheads as they’re now on top of the world.
Microsoft Throws Down the Gauntlet Against Google
In lieu of the controversial Privacy Policy change that Google has recently come under fire for, Microsoft has decided to step up and strike while the iron’s hot. There were newspaper ads taken out last week that boldly pointed out Google’s troubles, the users concerns, and an alternate product conveniently made by Microsoft. However, it appears Microsoft is removing both gloves as they attack Google and more specifically GMail, in a video published by Microsoft, on ironically, the Google owned Youtube. Check out the video after the break.
