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Windows 7 to Replace Some Apps with Live Services

craighal — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:37:28 GMT

Yep.

Quoted: Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that several services currently found within Windows XP and Windows Vista will be dropped for Windows 7, and replaced with similar versions of its Live services.

Quoted: Starting with the next release of Windows – internally known as Windows 7 - Windows Mail, Windows Calendar, Windows Contacts, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker will no longer be available in the Windows operating system," a spokesman for Microsoft said in an email on Tuesday.

Quoted: Similar functionality for email, contact, calendar, photo and movie making will be available for free from Windows Live, removing the duplication of functionality for our consumers between Windows and Windows Live," the spokesman added.

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adaptive path » aurora concept video

craighal — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:28:36 GMT

Interesting to go through and see other people try whacky ideas around UI. I've seen these ideas come and go for many years. It will be interesting to see where the real breakthrough comes from.

Quoted: A User Experience design and consulting firm that unites theory and practice to advance the art of user experience design while helping clients make better business decisions. Located in San Francisco, California, USA.

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Apples MobileMe Is Too Flawed: Tech Ticker

craighal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:30:40 GMT

Ah, shucks...

Quoted: Unfortunately, after a week of intense testing of the service, I can’t recommend it, at least not in its current state. It’s a great idea, but, as of now, MobileMe has too many flaws to keep its promises.

Quoted: I am not referring to the launch glitches that plagued MobileMe earlier this month, such as servers that couldn’t keep up with the traffic and email outages that, for some users, persist as I write this. Those were bad, but they have eased considerably. Apple already has apologized for them and is giving customers an extra 30 days on their subscriptions to make up for the poor start. The problems I am citing are systemic.

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Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger

craighal — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:39:11 GMT

Good post of Ozzy's Mesh

Quoted: For three years now I’ve wondered “what is Ray Ozzie up to?” And with this announcement you see just why he’s Microsoft’s CTO. Yeah, there are about 100 smart people working on Microsoft’s new “Live Mesh” which was turned on tonight, but this is Ray’s coming out party, as much as anything.

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Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley - New York Times

craighal — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:07:14 GMT

Quoted: Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. But Seattle is actually doing it.

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AOL Finally Kills Netscape Browser

craighal — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:05:12 GMT

Quoted: On Friday, roughly a decade after Netscape's fortunes started to slide, AOL announced it is finally pulling the plug on the Netscape browser. "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer," Tom Drapeau, AOL's director of development, wrote on the Netscape Blog.

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Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?

craighal — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:19:29 GMT

How long before we see an 'A.B.G.' mantra ensue? Or how about 'A.B.A.' (Anybody but Apple, or a seventees disco band?)

Quoted: When the connection with Google was revealed more than a year ago, the question on popular tech Web sites like Slashdot.org was whether Mozilla was acting as a proxy in Google’s larger war with Microsoft and others.

Quoted: The browser’s other, unstated advantage, shared with other open-source projects, was A.B.M: Anybody but Microsoft.

Quoted: Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s general manager for Internet Explorer, noted that the market still showed a marked preference for Explorer, but he did concede that Microsoft, for structural reasons, could not show the enthusiasm Firefox developers have...

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Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can’t be real?

craighal — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:42:01 GMT

You have to think growth for a vertical like this is not sustainable. People have been asking if Facebook's 15 minutes is up.

Quoted: ...there seems to be a 9.3% decline in their unique visitors from 33.75 million in August 2007 to 30.6 million in September 2007. Even their page views are down 3.8% from August 2007. (See chart.) The only company with worse performance: Classmates.com which has filed to go public. Its unique visitors tanked 19.8%

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Microsoft To Extend Windows XP Sales As Vista Concerns Mount

craighal — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:50:06 GMT

How is Windows supposed to innovate and take advantage of hardware advances when this perception exists?

Quoted: A survey conducted earlier this year by InformationWeek showed that an astonishing 30% of businesses have no plans to purchase Windows Vista. It's an indication that many corporate software buyers may take a long look at Linux, the Mac OS, or some other alternative to Vista once Windows XP is no longer available.

Quoted: Among other things, software buyers have railed against Windows Vista's price, lack of compatibility with existing software, and system requirements that exceed the capabilities of PCs more than a couple of years old.

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Can you make too many digital memories? - Digital Life

craighal — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:56:15 GMT

I can relate...

Quoted: Thanks to cheap and easy-to-use recording devices — digital cameras, camcorders, camera phones — today’s kids are forming the most documented generation ever, as parents, relatives and friends capture forever the first, second and hundredth smile. The challenge will come in managing all the data and making sure they get migrated and cared for along the way.

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