“Hi, I’m a PC.” “Hi, I’m a Mac.”

Nope, not today. Steve and Bill were quite chummy on stage, but no parody of the mac commercials. Maybe someone told Bill that he might actually blue screen and then everyone would know Bill is not a real human. Instead if is Window BE (bill edition).

what’s the greatest misunderstanding about your relationship with each other? Steve: We’ve kept our marriage secret for over a decade. Nice Steve, Nice.

Steve and Bill married.. talk about dysfunctional family!

D5 — All Things Digital

There is a article of The 5 Sins of Vista over at IntelliAdmin.

The three times (beta, RC and final) I have tried Vista it always comes down to two things for me:

1. Has this made my tech life better? NOPE
2. Did I lose any functionality I use everyday now? YEP

Then why the heck would I want to pay MS more money for something that just plain annoyed the hell out of me. Nope, no thanks, passing, please drive thru.

Steve did an exceptional job listing some very key points about Vista failings. Worse yet, how many years did it take MS to get to this? Personally, someone should of dumped and run years ago. Someone should of learned something from the Windows 95 & NT 4 days of OS merging and development. That was painful, this is gun to the head painful!

Last note, but isn’t pretty? Make sure you have your graphic toaster cranked up to max in your box if you expect any prettiness. You might as well take your prom date back to XP.

Mac / Linux crowd… if this is not your chance I don’t know what will be? Vista is DOA IMO.

Tags: Microsoft, Vista

For those poor Windows users out there that ran Microsoft’s January 2007 security and products updates that had not ventured down the IE7 path yet, it came a knocking for them.

Unless you did a custom update and unselected IE7, you gave permission for it to install Internet Explorer 7.0 on said machine. Apparently in many cases, post IE7 install, users ran into crashes, web site functionality and rendering issues. In some extreme cases, Windows machine that was completely unable to do any web browsing.

Many of the problems are usually related to ActiveX controls and custom pre-IE7 hacks in web apps that just dont work anymore in IE7 or the default “secure” IE7.

A good rundown of the fallout of IE7 can be seen over at eWeek’s – Is Internet Explorer 7 Too Locked Down for You?

These are the days that so many people remember why they love Microsoft with such adoration.

Tags: IE, Microsoft

VSoft Technologies has released their public beta of their Automise tool.

What is Automise? Refer to my original Automise 1 post.

Once again a ton of new functionality has been added. Check out What’s new in Automise 2.

As I stated in my previous Automise post, I can not say enough great things about this tool and VSoft (Tate and Vincent do an incredible job!). You doing anything more than a couple times, you should Automise it!

Other Automise post: Automise 1.5 Released post.

Thanks Tate & Vincent.

Tags: Automise, VSoft

After reading Chis blog (Is Microsoft’s Outlook Team on Crack?) about how he had been trying to use Outlook 2007 for a couple weeks, I could not agree more. That is why I have not used any Outlook in over a year now. All personal and even domain level emails are actually handled through GMail.

I dont worry about having Outlook installed everywhere (that gets too expensive) not to mention having to have it configured to use an Exchange server for it to be of any group use. That is where Google Apps for Your Domains is awesome.

Got your mail, your calendar (which I cannot live without anymore) and of course good ole GTalk. Plus as long as you have net access you have access to it all. No more having to have an Exchange server and exposing it via OWA.

Chris I love the final analysis… “has been craptacular”. Amen

If MS promise of IPTV on the X360 comes true, there might just be another reason to own a X360 in your home. Ditch the old cable box and get TV goodness from the gaming console the “knows it can, it can, it can”.

The biggest problem? Holiday 2007! DOH
UPDATE:

It currently sounds like that IPTV will not be available in the current version of the 360. To support the new functionality you would have to get v2 of the X360 to be released near the end of 2007. If this is really true that is going to really stink for the 10.4 million that have their current version of the 360. Plus the HDMI rumor is now related to this v2 version. So far I have not found any 100% proof that this is true or not.

Tags: XBOX 360