There’s been quite a lot of talk over the past few days about an project MS is running called Midori that may, or may not, be the makings of a new legacy free OS. The prospect of an entirely new OS is quite an exciting one, the world has moved a long way since the […]
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HTC Touch Diamond – First thoughts
Yesterday I got a HTC Touch Diamond to play with for a few days. I’ve been wanting to see one in the flesh for a while, partly because I need a new phone, and partly because we’re a Windows Mobile house here and with the 3G iPhone looming we’re thinking hard about future direction. The […]
Why ask ‘what makes up the cloud’?
I’ve read a few posts over the last few days which try to answer the question ‘what is the cloud’. Not conceptually ‘what is it’, but physically what is if made off, what servers, data centres etc. To my mind the point of the cloud is that as a customer you don’t need to know […]
Why is it…?
…That when you close MS Word, the ‘X’ closes just that open window… but when you close Excel, the ‘X’ closes all the open Windows? Seems like an odd inconsistency.
Pointless bad press…
A few months ago MS announced that it was going to cut off the DRM servers that support the old MSN Music service, effectively limiting what people could do with the music they had paid for. It turns out that they’ve now changed their mind and decided to keep the servers going until 2011… so […]