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If you’re one of those high-end PC users who sprung for Windows Vista Ultimate hoping that the promised Ultimate Extras would someday amount to something, you might have to keep waiting after today. Microsoft released a precious few updates...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Try as it may, it seems the Zune just can't match up to the iPod. Why not? Well, A.J. Kandy, creative director and prez of King Marketing, posits that Microsoft needs to stop simply following in Apple's footsteps with...
POSTED Thursday, April 3, 2008
Thanks to everyone who participated in our share your Vista horror stories contest. Congratulations to Craysh, who won himself a 2GB Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 player with his story of having to install Vista on 50 computers only to have...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
You might have heard that Microsoft rolled out the first service pack for Windows Vista yesterday, claiming to fix lots of bugs, make the operating system more secure and, well, we hoped maybe it could even cure all known diseases....
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Microsoft was forced to release a slew of embarrassing internal e-mails last month as part of a class-action lawsuit claiming that "Vista Capable" labels on computers sold before Vista was released were misleading. You can download all of the...
POSTED Monday, March 10, 2008
Flickr fans can rest easy— at least for now. Yahoo rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover offer this morning, arguing that Microsoft had undervalued it. This doesn't mean the battle is over, however. Microsoft could come back with a higher...
POSTED Monday, February 11, 2008
Damned if I didn't just buy a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 v2.0 when the company rolls out a newer, upgraded Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 (pictured above left) that I'm lusting after right about now. Besides looking a lot...
POSTED Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Early Friday morning Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. The goal? Microsoft wants to bring Google down and thinks that Yahoo's huge traffic numbers might help. How does all this affect us, the web...
POSTED Sunday, February 3, 2008
Bill Gates has given ten keynote speeches at CES since 1994. Tonight at 6:30 pm PST he'll deliver his eleventh CES keynote, and some say his last. After all, Gates spends more time trying to cure malaria than he...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
A research group run by Microsoft in Cambridge, England, has developed a digital camera called the SenseCam for Alzheimer's and dementia patients. It hangs around the patient's neck and takes wide-angle lens pictures that capture most of what the...
POSTED Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Microsoft announced its new line of Zunes in early October, eliciting a flood of opinion about the gadget's future. But only now are the reviews of new Zunes rolling in. Everyone agrees on one thing: the new Zunes are...
POSTED Sunday, November 18, 2007
Heelys, the company that brought you sneakers with wheels, is now stunning the world by releasing sneakers whose soles look like Xbox 360 controllers. Don't everyone run to the store at once now. Although these soles do look a...
POSTED Tuesday, October 23, 2007
With all of the talk about breaches of private personal information these days, the mere thought that Microsoft wants to read your, uh, thoughts should scare the crap out of anyone. Apparently, the folks in Redmond are attempting to secure...
POSTED Thursday, October 18, 2007
Microsoft announced some new Zunes this week, a kind of afterthought to Apple's big announcements a few weeks ago. This generation of Zunes is better than the last, with clear improvements both inside and out. Still, the question on...
POSTED Sunday, October 7, 2007
In a surprising and admirable move, Microsoft yesterday announced plans to let loose a million songs without any DRM (digital rights management) on the company's Zune Marketplace online music store. Western Civilization has so far not collapsed. The copy-protection-free...
POSTED Thursday, October 4, 2007
Today Microsoft unveiled the company's new lineup of Zune players. The Zune, for those of you who might need a refresher, is the software giant's rambling, confused answer to the iPod: a music player that supposedly gives you more...
POSTED Wednesday, October 3, 2007
On Friday some Windows users (Vista Home Premium and Ultimate) awoke to find that their "Media Center" program had downloaded an upgrade: the beta version of Microsoft Internet TV. The program is a menu of TV shows, live concerts, and...
POSTED Monday, October 1, 2007
Microsoft has announced several third party "extenders," which are basically wireless receivers that hook up to your television. They allow you to beam streamed web or downloaded content from your computer to your TV via WiFi or an Ethernet...
POSTED Monday, October 1, 2007
I love downhill skiing, but sometimes I just wish it was a little bit more dangerous. You know, because flying down a mountain at 40 miles per hour on a pair of waxed planks just doesn't thrill me enough....
POSTED Monday, September 24, 2007
I've cheerfully used DOS and every version of Windows: 3.1, 95, 98, ME (briefly), NT, 2000, XP, and (briefly and with mounting horror) Vista. Yesterday I took a walk on the wild side and tried Safari for Windows XP....
POSTED Thursday, June 14, 2007
Red states and blue states. With the presidential primary season in full pander mode, red states and blue states are currently a big political story. But in the world of technology, red states and blue states refer to the...
POSTED Thursday, June 7, 2007
A few years ago at CES, Bill Gates demoed a future technology that would allow users to sit down in a restaurant, hotel, or airline lounge and use an interactive table surface to get work done. It was a...
POSTED Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Magnets are the new wave for surgery and shark deflection, but what's happening in the everyday world of refrigerator magnets? Well, you could light up your kitchen with Vegas-style refrigerator lights, or you could do something far more practical, like...
POSTED Thursday, May 17, 2007
Proving that even monolithic companies can occasionally have a sense of humor, Microsoft spoofed the iPhone but good the other day, announcing its own foray into the mobile phone market, the oFone. Featuring three "wings" that pivot around a...
POSTED Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Could this be the navigation of a future Zune Phone? It's from a patent filed by Microsoft for "Tile Space User Interface for Mobile Devices," and it looks suspiciously similar to a certain other phone based on a music...
POSTED Friday, April 20, 2007
Oh, Microsoft — why are you always late to the game against Apple? First the iPod beat the snot out of the Zune in the retail world. Now, on the heels of the Apple iPhone announcement, comes word of...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
Why should you buy a Zune? Because Bill Gates is strapped for cash. No, actually because Microsoft, to sustain its World Domination, must never allow the enemy to get too strong, in any market, including handheld media players. After...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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