Since this is the week Windows 7 is getting released and I’m hosting a Windows 7 Party, I thought it would be great to share some of my favorite new features in Windows 7 with my readers. The Windows 7 Sidebar in the past has been more or less static. In Windows XP, you were [...]
Since this is the week Windows 7 is getting released and I’m hosting a Windows 7 Party, I thought it would be great to share some of my favorite new features in Windows 7 with my readers. The overhauled task bar in Windows 7 is definitely an eye-catcher. One of the new features is collapsing [...]
A while ago I mentioned Ten Grand Is Buried Here, a competition by Microsoft to promote their new version of Internet Explorer. A day or so before it started, the site wouldn’t let other browsers see the hints field, where the tweets go. Well, the competition has started now and the clues are streaming out [...]
I was watching the new Mircosoft Bing.com ads. Here’s what I think the best video currently is. It’s just over a minute long, but it feels long for just a minute. The new ad is pretty weird at first, a question is asked and then the bombardment starts. It’s epic in strangeness and you will [...]
I was reading “ASP.NET gets no Respect“, this morning and I have some things to say. First, a bit of history. My first experiences as a web developer were with ASP.net. It was really elegant for me as kid (3 years ago, now!). (Note: I added all of the bolds in the quoted text.) In [...]