October 16th, 2012
I’m a little worried. Maybe I should sit down. Catch my breath and think things through a little more. No, it’s no use. I still feel the same. I quite like the new Microsoft tablet. There I said it. I’ll hand my “Apple Fan Club” membership back shall I? Named Surface, it’s a nice little [...]
July 19th, 2012
Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will be released on October 26th: a date that will forever live in history as the day that the company reclaimed its crown, vanquished Apple, pushed Google & Android aside and did, well, probably not a lot to finally put RIM out of its misery. For Windows 8 will [...]
March 31st, 2011
It came as a surprise to nobody who’d been paying attention to the gossip and rumour. But I, for one, thought they might have done it a little more subtly. Or injected just a soupcon of originality. For today Google announced it’s latest inroad into the world of social media, and fired a shot across [...]
March 17th, 2011
I’m not a big gamer, I have a Wii and a PlayStation 2 gathering dust somewhere. But even I can sense a shift in the gaming environment. Being (just) the youthful side of 40, I’ve grown up seeing games develop from the stick and square ball of Pong on my Grandstand TV Game 2000 in [...]
March 16th, 2011
Apparently, Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Steve Jobs (Apple) get on quite well. Not exactly holidaying together but respectful of what the other has brought to the technology industry. In public at least. Yes there’s rivalry. And yes there’s the occasional – mostly playful – sniping, between the companies most-obviously in Apple’s recent “Mac v PC” [...]
March 16th, 2011
The Zune is dead. Or so the rumours go. What do you mean you’ve never heard of it? You know, the Zune: Microsoft’s iPod “killer”, the device that would drive a stake through the heart of Apple’s cash cow and see MS claim its rightful place as the dominant player in the “modern Walkman” market. [...]
December 6th, 2010
If you’re a Facebook user, and the chances are high you are, then you might well have noticed many of your friends changing their profile picture over the past couple of days into a cartoon character. They may even have added a status message to explain why – and encourage you to do the same. [...]
November 4th, 2010
Ok, cards on the table: I’m not a fan of Microsoft. I don’t think this is secret information. But just in case you’re new to this blog: Exhibit A, Exhibit B and Exhibit C. Don’t get me wrong. Not everything Microsoft has ever done has been evil-personified in software form. I’m told the Xbox is alright. I have [...]
October 12th, 2010
Microsoft – are you listening? Grab a warm drink, pull up a chair, get comfy and, by all means, take some notes. Right – pen poised? Here’s your headline: people don’t want the kitchen sink in every single application they use. Two recent stories have got me thinking about simplicity in software and, by extension, [...]
October 6th, 2010
Do you remember when Google was a search engine? Seems a long time ago doesn’t it. Google Docs. Google Calendar. Gmail. Android. YouTube. Google Chrome. Blogger. Google Earth. Google Maps. Google Streetview. Google… well, you get the idea. It’s all part of the Internet Goliath’s plan to command pretty much everything we do on the [...]