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WTF Microsoft! Morro beta not in Canada but in the US and China? - UPDATED

June 23, 2009

This is just screwed up.
Updated: thanks to some Twitter friends (@RuudHein and @rodtempleton) I was reminded to try my Connect membership page at Microsoft to grab it.
Nice trick guys thanks as that seems to have worked just great. I still think that the restrictions suck the big one.

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Hey Microsoft – quit treating people like idiots

June 18, 2009

It is no wonder that Microsoft gets the flack it does when it keeps putting out stupid shit like this -

Do you really think that people are stupid enough to believe this kind of obviously slanted marketing?
C’mon get real – it’s no wonder the web makes fun of you.
[hat tip to Google Blogoscoped]

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And here I thought Live Search was history

June 18, 2009

As most probably know by now Microsoft is running some contest that will let you win $10,000 but you have to be using IE8. That’s fine I guess and I won’t quibble on how they’re running the campaign; but don’t you think someone should have said something about Live Search being replaced by Bing?

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Anti-virus should be OS level but it’ll never happen

June 13, 2009

I’ve been playing around with different anti-virus software packages the last few days, and still am, which made reading a couple of recent post rather interesting. The first one was by Svetlana Gladkova over at Profy.com where she related her trials and tribulations trying to find a package she was comfortable with. Being Russian [...]

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And you people call yourselves tech bloggers

June 1, 2009

In much of the news about Microsoft’s relaunched search engine, Bing, one of the things that many tech bloggers have been mentioning as being new is how Bing will display images and videos. More than a few comments I have seen around is how it is rather cool that Bing will let you play videos [...]

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Ballmer admits to the value of ‘verbing up’ but gives us bland instead

May 28, 2009

It’s nice to have my opinions about something, even if in a round about way, verified as being even close to on the money. It doesn’t happen very often and especially not from the level of a Steve Ballmer.
I took a lot of flack recently over a post I wrote at The Inquisitr that [...]

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Upgrading to Windows 7 RC with thanks to Ed Bott

May 25, 2009

When I grabbed a copy of the Windows 7 Beta as it was first released onto the web I didn’t anticipate any real problems with the inevitable upgrade path to the RC or the final release. Well silly me because Microsoft for some reason update the Beta once during the cycle and then said [...]

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Windows 7 in 2009 or how a nobody predicted it first

May 11, 2009

It doesn’t happen very often that a relatively unknown blogger can predict something will happen and get any notice about their prediction. That sort of thing is reserved for the big names like Mary Jo Foley, Ed Bott and other ‘pro’ tech writers. However I’ve been pretty lucky when I stick my neck out [...]

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This is how Microsoft should do its ads

May 8, 2009

One would never think of stodgy old Intel of being someone who would come out with a really cool and fun ad. Maybe Microsoft should hire Intel’s ad agency because they certainly seem to understand how to do cool tech ads. Not like Crispin Porter + Bogusky which really has been more fail than anything [...]

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Some interesting thoughts about Microsoft’s future

May 4, 2009

Fair assessments of Microsoft and some of the things it should do moving forward are usually heavy handed with all kinds of buzzwords and negative connotations. It’s understandable I guess given that’s how you get readers to your blog and earn you Web 2.0 brownie points. So it was rather nice to see a [...]

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