Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Here’s a bit of tongue-in cheek fun for you, courtesy of Denver based Aten Design group who have held a funeral ceremony for IE6 last week – Microsoft’s rather unpopular browser which is currently in the process of fading into the distant mists of technology history (Youtube turns off compatibility next week – though it seems it’ll take a little while longer before it’s completely phased out everywhere else).
Anyway, the design group seems to have been quite clever in having a bit of fun while also generating some excellent publicity for itself with the event (coverage has been featured on various other sites, including Techcrunch). It’s certainly one way to do some effective but also creative and fun advertising, and…
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After the European commission decision to force Microsoft to actively offer web users a choice of different browsers (rather than simply the implicit potential to search for, download, and install one through IE), it seems Google are having a pretty decent week as far as their browser is concerned, and with rather handy timing have just launched a new beta version with some nice new features. (Head over to Youtube for a quick demonstration of the main additions and tweaks).
While the new release is nothing major (basically some added privacy controls, added control over cookies and java plug-ins for individual sites and a neat translation service), it does come at a time when Chrome’s market share is showing continued progress at eating away at Mozilla and IE’s users (both shares of the…
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What a novel situation for computer users worldwide this Windows 7 launch is turning out to be! As far as I personally can remember (W98 onwards) the launch of a new version of Windows has always been met with at least some degree of disappointment (bugs, slow boot times, poor anti-virus/firewall tools etc etc), but not this time it seems, judging by the emerging reviews.
For the first time ever I actually find myself considering paying for the new version – not in 6 months or a year (when some issues are resolved) – but now. Apart from the slight disappointment that the anti-virus tool isn’t quite up to scratch (EU competition commission seems to be rendering MS a little wary…
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Microsoft has this week pulled another ad in what is an only slightly less high-profile incident than the controversial one which recently saw black faces deliberately removed (badly), with a quick photoshop job, from ad images for the Polish market. This time the ad is a web-based video one generally based around vomit, porn and Internet Explorer 8…
The ad relies on a quirky, internet-based humour feel – and is certainly not one that Microsoft would ever consider launching on prime time television for example. Instead it is clearly designed for a web-savvy young internet crowd (hence its online only distribution). It has now been taken down from the MS website, but is still, perhaps inevitably, now eternally available for all to…
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So, Microsoft’s 30Gb Zune players can’t handle leap years. That’s the reason why many of them froze yesterday morning just as the 366-day year of 2008 was coming to a close. Most users simply let the battery drain before turning their Zunes back on again and, hey presto, everything’s back to normal. But could this short term oversight point to a more long term issue? Why was the leap year neglected in the product developers’ minds?
Well, the 30Gb model that features the leap year glitch was launched back in February of 2006, meaning it was in development probably as early as 2005 if not before – a whole three years before the next leap year would come around. Now in…
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