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everybody hates the Dock, except… DELL

Thursday, June 26th, 2008, by moose

So, Dell decided that Vista suxx and they really wanted badly to have OSX on their machines. But, of course, Apple told then to go make an OS for themselves.
And now, this is what Dell has come up with:
Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops:

Sweet, uh?

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Return of the ’70s Weirdos

Monday, June 23rd, 2008, by moose

Newsweek.com:

That photo of 11 weirdos in ’70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company’s move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates’s departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.

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Spot the Idiot: Bill Gates on Windows 7

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008, by moose

Well, what can I say? Here’s what the Bill said:
We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient
Ars technica: Gates: Windows 7 will “take less memory, be [...]

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A Windows developer explains why he switched to make apps for the Mac - part II

Monday, May 5th, 2008, by moose

In a previous post, I pointed to an interesting chronicle written by a long-time Windows developer who decided to switch over to doing Mac apps because he was fed up with the ugly Win platform.
In the second part of his story, he focuses on the story of the .net trainwreck environment.
From Win32 to Cocoa: a [...]

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So, Ballmer uses a MacBook Pro, uh?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008, by moose

This picture is just GREAT:

I still hope for them he used PowerPoint and not Apple’s Keynote…

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Is Windows/Office getting slower with each new version?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008, by moose

Over at InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy wrote an interesting review. He tested the performance of various flavors of Windows and Office on different PC configuration.
His conclusion:
Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft:
The conventional wisdom regarding PC evolution, that Microsoft devours every Intel advance, continues to hold true right up through the current generation of Windows Vista and Office [...]

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A Windows developer explains why he switched to make apps for the Mac

Monday, April 21st, 2008, by moose

From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user’s conversion to Mac OS X:
There are lots of developers producing Mac applications and utilities. And they’re actually making an effort with them. Conscientious developers, who care about making an application that looks good, works well, and exploits the capabilities of the OS, are putting out great applications for [...]

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