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 […]
Tag archives: Microsoft
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 […]
MOM 2005 Management Pack for Server 2008
Something that surprised me about the Server 2008 launch was that there aren’t any MOM management packs available for it yet. I’m sure people we busy getting the OS itself ready, but this won’t help adoption of the OS by enterprises. I’m told that the MP hasn’t yet gone through beta testing but it targeted […]
Windows 7 and Virtualisation
Yesterday I left a comment on a post over on istartedsomthing. The post was about a job advert for developers to work on virtual hard disks, and it’s implications for Windows 7 functionality. There seems to be quite a bit of focus on this line from the advert: "Consider the simplicity of backup using a […]