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The Register has a pretty god article on Microsoft's Virtual Earth especially about the part were the head quarters of Apple computer is nothing but a bare field. Either some programmers are having a lot of fun or the imagery that they are using is old. Either way good joke if someone is doing some monkey business or not so
Chapter five from the Extreme Tech Series "Hacking Windows XP" is available. Looks like I am going to have to exercise my Author discount, and get one of these sent to me. Looks like a great read. Not that I am biased at all on books published by Wiley. [ExtremeTech]
Rumor on the street is that Microsoft is about to buy Claria which was responsible for the spyware filled application Gator. If Microsoft is buying it I hope the purpose is to fire everyone and close the company down dismantle it's customer tracking infrastructure and shred all data they have. Yeah I know that would be dream come true are
Microsoft is saying they are betting big on RSS in Longhorn and IE 7 1st Throughout Windows RSS enabled 2nd provide a RSS platform that will help expand RSS 3rd Cover more scenarios Internet Explorer version 7 automatically detects rss and shows a view that people can see the feed in a readable format and it integrates directly with RSS
I have run into a few pages over at Microsoft that have not loaded from time to time in Firefox, and really did not think anything about it. Apparently it is getting the dandruff up of some of the Firefox development team. I am not all that surprised, but I would be curious to have a technical explanation on why
Microsoft Corp. is urging Windows XP users to uninstall the new Netscape 8 webbrowser because it can conflict with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Not surprisingly, Microsoft is claiming that the problem is with Netscape, rather than their own browser that invades the operating system like kudzu.
Nokia Announces Linux-based Portable Internet Device Nokia announced that its is developing a portable Internet device based on the open-source Linux operating system. Designed to take advantage of the wide distribution of accessible Wi-Fi networks, the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet features a widescreen display and an on-screen keyboard, a la a PDA on steroids. The device will also be able to connect to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones as an alternative network connection source.