Category Archives: Microsoft
Xbox 360 with Kinect
After a year of planning to buy a Playstation 3, two weeks ago we purchased the Xbox 360. What changed? Kinect, it just looked so cool, and you can have multi-player without needing to buy yet another controller. Dance Central … Continue reading
Microsoft ‘Really’ Ad
Microsoft has a fantastic new ad ‘Really’ for their new mobile device OS (ht Andrew Lark). It pushes a current trend to the extreme, and their claim of difference is “in and out faster”. Really? I get absorbed in my … Continue reading
BSOD on MacBook
I was just playing my Curse of the Azure Bonds port, checking that the game can be played through, when Windows ‘Blue Screen of Death’. It was a very rude feeling, as I have not seen a BSOD for years, … Continue reading
Installing Visual Studio 2008
I have finished now, but I have to say there was something creepy about the two male photos used. One looked too happy and the other too smooth. What made it worse was that it kept changing and my attention … Continue reading
Windows Live Writer leaves Beta
Windows Live Write leaves Beta and moves into the bundle-ware stage. This was announced two days ago on the Windows Live Writer blog, but like previous releases, the http://writer.live.com/ URL just redirected you to some crap http://get.live.com/wl/coming_soon page. Luckily the … Continue reading
