Heads up, iPhone users: If iCloud, Dropbox, Box, Amazon, or any of the other cloud storage services currently available to you just aren’t cutting it, there’s a new option in town: Microsoft SkyDrive.Long available on Windows desktop, Windows Phone and through the Web, SkyDrive offers the most free space out…
via Microsoft launches SkyDrive for iPhone: 25GB free cloud storage.
Microsoft said on Friday that only around 100 users worldwide are currently experiencing issues with the company’s recent Windows Phone update. Microsoft resumed its Windows Phone update push to Samsung devices earlier this week and…
Do you believe it? I certainly don’t. There was a whole lot more outrage out there then could be produced by 100, or even 1,000 users….
What’s your opinion?
Read more at .. Microsoft claims only 100 Windows Phone users experienced latest update issues.
Amazingly enough, Paul Thurrott’s supersite for Windows, actually has a positive piece about Apple…
I’ve harped on this a lot in the past, but in a bid to maximize profits, Microsoft has littered the market with far too many Windows product versions, or what the company calls SKUs (for “stock keeping unit,” retailing term). And while we can try to dumb down the conversation by explaining how, in any given market, customers only have two or three or four choices, or whatever, the fact remains: One version is not just enough, it’s optimal from the customer point of view. Just ask Apple: It offers just one version of Mac OS X. It’s called Mac OS X. Not Mac OS X Media Center Edition or Mac OS X Arbitrarily Limited Edition. Just Mac OS X.
And more. Overall, he points out quite a few places where Microsoft should power up those XEROX machines and start copying… (Yes, I know, photocopier machines… But dang it, Xerox-ing it gives me some satisfaction… )
Read more here — What Microsoft Can Learn From Mac OS X Lion.
Yes, my cable bill is rising again, but I should be glad… At least that’s Time Warner’s belief, why?
Well, for example:
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But of course, like many of their products, I can’t use it. Why? It’s Windows-centric. I have to download and install a Roadrunner Media Player, before I can even consider using their service…
Why? For the same reason that I can’t use the Antivirus software that Time Warner advertises. Because they simply don’t care. Time Warner just bundles Computer Associates (McAfee) antivirus package, so instead they could of decided on bundling the McAfee software (or AVAST, etc).
Time Warner doesn’t care about actually providing a service to anyone other than their majority users, nor about giving good service. They complain about iTunes being an monopoly / titan in the Video arena, yet here we go with yet another video store that is ignoring an underserved segment.
Why? Because they have decided to use some off the shelf Microsoft supplied toolkit that will never properly support the Macintosh. I thank our Net Overlords when Netflix demanded that Silverlight support the Macintosh when they devised their streaming solution… (Of course, Microsoft has officially killed Silverlight, and now Netflix has to re-engineering, but that has nothing about supporting the Macintosh…)
People sometimes ask me why I am not a fan of Adobe?
The main reason is that they have very lackluster Macintosh support. Misbehaving Installers, slow installers, and quality control that Microsoft would never accept.
Microsoft is criticized for throwing out releasing and then over the next dozen or so patches slowly eliminating bugs (and introducing new ones). But Adobe has just finally added preliminary support for Stage Video, a technology aimed to reduce heavy CPU usage during video playback. I suspect this is a direct move to try to reduce the criticism from Apple regarding the high drain on the system when running Flash on the Macintosh.
But is this too little too late? Time will tell.
Mac OS X 10.6.5 out. The releases notes mention:
More Information on the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update, can be found here.
Microsoft has released its first update to Office 2011, which, in addition to bug fixes, patches a security vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if a user opens or previews a specially crafted RTF e-mail message.
Users can download the 110.5 MB update here, or via the Microsoft AutoUpdate tool. More information about the update is here.
Computerworld points out that the same flaw exists in Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008, and that Microsoft is not offering patches for these versions.
So the government, is asking for bids, from multiple vendors for a product that can only be created by one vendor. So if anyone else wants to win the bid, they have to purchase services / product from Microsoft. Yes indeed. This is your money at work, within the government. Especially since there are tons of alternatives out there, from Google Apps / Docs, to Zimbra…
In its Request for Quotes RFQ, a document asking companies to design a solution and quote the department a price, the DOI restricted the candidates to using the Microsoft suite only. The problem is that such a restriction is akin to putting money directly in Microsofts pocket, as the contract cant be completed without Microsoft taking part at some point.
According to the lawsuit Google filed, the DOI tried to justify the requirement by saying its suite offered consolidated e-mail and “enhanced security.” The 37-page filing details several volleys between Google and the DOI, wherein Google points out that Microsoft products still have downtime issues and makes a case for its own Google Apps as a suitable alternative.
Read the full article at Google sues feds over Microsoft-centric bidding requirement.