iPhone debate: I’m a Mac vs. Bill Gates – 10 Zen Monkeys a webzine A very, very nice fictional conversation between the guy who plays a mac on tv and Bill Gates. I’m sick to death of people touting regional anomalies as some harbinger of the future. They should make an ad where there’s three [...]
Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists [via Engadget] So, Microsoft keeps screwing over their customers to appease the major labels. After agreeing to pay Universal a bounty on each Zune sold (setting a chilling precident for the industry), and crippling their main differentiating feature (sharing music wirelessly) so much as to make [...]
Mary Jo Foley sussed it out from a talk he gave at Wharton. In the talk he’s asked about screwing over partners, and he basically says, “fuck ‘em.” yeah, great idea Steve. What about fucking over your customers who bought music with Plays For Sure DRM or bought devices with it? Yeah, that is gonna [...]
here it is I don’t doubt Mr. Gutmann’s scholarship, nor his motives. The scenario he paints seems extreme. Extremely stupid. Now, I worked on Windows Media many years ago, and I can totally see a document like this coming out of that group. There were many good and smart people on that team, but they [...]
Dr. Dobb’s | Microsoft Seeks RSS Patents; Blogosphere Worries | December 22, 2006 This isn’t really so surprising actually. I was at the Gnomedex where MS announced the big RSS features in Vista (didn’t really hear to much about them after that). It makes sense that they would file some patents around that stuff. However, [...]
Major security flaws found in Microsoft’s new Windows
I h8 you. Sure, I have a lot more e-mail than most folks, and I understand that performance might be affected by the quantity, and for the most part Entourage still works pretty good with 200,000+ email messages (except where it hangs for 15 minutes at a time while it is doing something once in [...]
Back in 2000, I was looking at the coming technological convergence centered around the living room. At the time, you had two players, Sony and Microsoft. (Apple hadn’t really entered the picture yet). There was no question who was going to win, it was Sony. Sony had just released the PS2 and it was impressive. [...]
