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I find many similarities between an event like WWDC and a similar one I’ve attended at Redmond long ago; both are big (huge!) events, with thousands of (men) engineers from around the world (and very few women), with a keynote by the founder, lots of events every morning and afternoon, and merchandasing stuff all over [...]

http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/
Am I not worried that WriteRoom and Scrivener, delightful though they are, are small products from tiny outfits, not “supported” by the corporate might of a large company such as Microsoft? No, I’m not. Because actually my writing is now more secure. Instead of a bloated proprietary file format like .doc, both programs use accessible [...]

http://www.lullabot.com/blog/why-not-asp-net
Microsoft has poured huge amounts of energy into building the .NET framework, and it’s fair to say that most Windows software written in the past half a decade or so uses it. Lots of .NET code is being written every day: it is the very opposite of a dead language. It’s got a very robust [...]

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/08/28/hey_mr_policeman_wga/
Anyone with half a brain cell understands perfectly well that [Windows Genuine Advantage] is all to Microsoft’s “advantage” – and confers no benefit whatsoever on the customer; just tons of unnecessary hassle. For years, I’ve felt that Microsoft has lost the plot as far as Windows is concerned – now I’m convinced of it

By far, one of the greatest PR efforts of Microsoft, ever.
http://www.claimyourvista.com/
We introduce to you Windows Vista, which is the newest operation system of Microsoft. We consider Microsoft Windows Vista is the best operation system from all others ever created. Truly, Vista deserves to become the single operation system on Earth for blessing of all humanity, [...]

Not that I want, mind you. But this doesn’t help getting me excited about the idea, either:

In my post-MBA job hunt, Microsoft was not the most obvious fit—I’m not a very technical guy. On my first day at Microsoft it took me 30 minutes just to find the latch to open my laptop (though I [...]

This is one not to miss. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates met yesterday in a face-to-face interview, where they talked about each other, about how the software industry took off, and this video is a small part of the whole show.
The video ends with jokes about Gil Amelio – Apple’s ill-fated CEO of the 90s… [...]

http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/15/vistas_long_goodbye_continues/
Seven weeks ago, when we first reported Vista was causing many machines to stall indefinitely while deleting, copying and moving files, we were sure the problem was caused by a bug that would be fixed relatively quickly. After all, Vista is Microsoft’s flagship product. It’s also an operating system. And everyone knows deleting, copying and [...]

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070517