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Next Microsoft operating system has touch controls - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Next Microsoft operating system has touch controls - Yahoo! News
How is this news?  Every time I’m on a Windows machine, I have to “touch” the power button in order to reboot it…

Windows Rant

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Sigh, I have had to test on Windows XP and Vista lately.  What a miserable experience.  How do Windows users live with the constant messages asking for permission, etc?  My guess is they turn them all off…  I wonder how much productivity increase would be had in the enterprise if people didn’t constantly have to [...]

Apple Keynote File Bloat

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Was perusing my files looking for a PPT file to do some testing on and came across the following in Finder:

Notice that the PPT file is 1.8 MB and the Keynote file is 24.6 MB.  I opened the Keynote today and did a fresh export just to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on [...]

Google says Microsoft’s Yahoo buy might hurt Internet - Yahoo! News

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Google says Microsoft’s Yahoo buy might hurt Internet - Yahoo! News
Wow, Googs must really be scared of this merger…  Why else would they be waging such a big PR war?  My opinion is we have more to fear from Google, then we do from Microhoo!  Google has a virtual monopoly on searches, and very little [...]

Sigh — Windows Vista (part deux)

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Grant’s Grunts » Sigh — Windows Vista
More fun:
I launch the installer and the first thing it does is go out and get updates.  OK, that’s cool and makes sense.  No way that a CD can be kept fresh in the store.  Finally, I get everything installed, first thing it does: downloads updates.  OK, no big [...]

Sigh — Windows Vista

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Dang.  Had to buy a copy of Windows Vista today so I can test on it (don’t worry, I won’t develop on it).  The whole purchase makes me feel like a criminal, and I did everything right, what with all the anti-piracy “protections” and the phone home effects.
And then there is the whole question of [...]