Category Archives: Microsoft

Silverlight gets ported to Linux - Welcome Moonlight

May 14, 2008 – 8:32 pm

While everyone seems to be positioning themselves around Adobe AIR for delivering Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) there is another player in the same space that goes by the name of Microsoft. Microsoft released it’s newest version of Silverlight (2.0) back in November of last year. As usual there were cries from the non Windows [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Software |

Just imagine them in their underwear

May 14, 2008 – 3:49 pm

Another year and another of Microsoft’s CEO Summit get together’s of the rich and powerful for the corporate world. There is no getting away from the fact that the people attending this faux private event who control over $3 trillion annually and 10 million employees are in fact the real movers and shakers in [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Vista say hello to Microsoft Bob

May 13, 2008 – 9:54 am

With every new release of the Windows operating system by Microsoft you can be assured of one thing - some folks will bitch about it. They could probably release the world’s perfect OS and still there would be complaints flying all over the place. Over the years I have seen it happen with just [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Group Policy Editor in XP Home? A Tweakers Dream

May 6, 2008 – 4:11 pm

I often run across blog entries for a particular tip, trick or tweak for "Windows XP" that invariably starts with "…open Group Policy Editor..". Then, in true Digg-esque fashion, 15 comments not-so-politely inform the author that GPE is only present in XP Pro, so this tweak is useless for XP Home users.
Or is it?
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By Bill Vincent | Also posted in Miscellaneous, Software, Tech Tips |

Stowe Boyd’s Future OS - reading the tea leaves

May 4, 2008 – 4:02 pm

Back on April 21st Stowe Boyd had an interesting post about what he thought a future operating system should be which caught my attention and that I have gone back to a few times since then. In his usual style Stowe gives a good balance opinion of why operating systems; both Windows and Mac, [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Apple, Internet |

Please tell me it’s so

May 3, 2008 – 7:01 pm

This would so make my day if the breaking news on TechCrunch is correct in that Microsoft has pulled its offer to snap up Yahoo off the table. Apparently it is due to the fact that Yahoo wanted more money than Ballmer was willing to fork over.
All I can say is that I sure [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Breaking down the Mesh

May 3, 2008 – 3:55 pm

All the big news last week was the big announcement by Ray Ozzie concerning Live Mesh and the availability of a limited number (20,000) beta invites that were available. Needless to say those invites became a pretty hot commodity among a portion of folks interested in what Microsoft is doing in the cloud computing [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Software |

What is cloud computing?

May 2, 2008 – 8:07 pm

With sometimes what seems to be breakneck speed things change in technology with old concepts being thrown to the curb and new ones rushing in to fill the void. Along with those new technologies come all the buzzwords used by marketing departments or folks looking to sound cool as they spout the hot new [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Google, Internet |