Comic – Masochist

Microsoft Using Apple’s Macbook Pro In Promotional Material

“…sometimes one encounters stuff that is just too good to pass. So that other day my dad bought a new HP Pavilion desktop, and since I am the geek in residence I ended up setting it up for him. So while I was waiting for Microsoft’s endless configuration and setup screens I decided to dig into the fluffy paraphernalia and promotional material bundled with the Desktop. The first thing that fell into my hand was this Microsoft Vista promotional booklet that had an image of the ideal happy family computing on a laptop. What stood out was that the laptop looked awfully similar to the Macbook Pro!” [It IS a MacBook Pro - Jay]

See the full post including the Playstation in place of an X-Box on Royal HeHe2-ness

Comic: Motivation

Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP

From Gizmodo.Com:

“With Bill Gates saying good-bye to Microsoft this week, we’re realizing more by the day how much we’ll miss the guy. And when reading through the many interviews floating around this week, we came across this jewel from 2003. A leaked memo from Microsoft, it’s several pages of Gates just laying into his design and programming staff for—among other issues—his personal experience when trying to install Windows Moviemaker. And it’s a very fulfilling read if you’ve ever been frustrated by a Microsoft product.”

Head on over to Gizmodo to see this jewel for yourself. It includes such wonderful quotes as: “The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don’t you just love that root certificate message?)” Gizmodo.Com

What laptop does Microsoft’s CEO use for his presentations?

A picture is worth a thousand words…

 

View the original on Flickr.Com

Bill Gates: ["Vista Sucks"] [video]

Gizmodo recently interviewed Bill Gates at CES. They posed a carefully worded question to the man and got a surprisingly frank answer…

Wow. See more of the interview at Gizmodo.

David Letterman on Bill Gates retirement. [video]

Picture of the Day

Found via Gizmodo.Com

World’s Biggest BSOD? (Blue Screen Of Death)

From Toronto, ON Canada.

Took 4 days to get it fixed.

Picture of the day.

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A Vista commercial we’d like to see… [video]

Funny commercial I stumbled across. Click the thumbnail to view.

Pic of the day.

Browsing a network full of PCs on a Mac running Leopard? This is what you see. A well-deserved poke at Microsoft from Apple. Found via CultOfMac.Com

Picture of the day.

A picture is worth 1000 words. (or 40360 days and 18 hours)

Microsoft’s Latest Invention: The iPhone

Patent application from Microsoft. Words fail me. Read what Wired.Com had to say.

Mother’s ire puts Ballmer on defense over Vista

“I’m one of those early adopters of Vista,” said Yvonne Genovese, an analyst who was interviewing Ballmer along with fellow analyst David Smith on stage at a conference forum. “My daughter comes in one day and says, ‘Hey Mom, my friend has Vista, and it has these neat little things called gadgets — I need those.’”

Said Ballmer: “I love your daughter.”

“You’re not going to like her mom in about two minutes,” said Genovese, while the crowd laughed.

She went on to explain that she installed Vista for her daughter — and two days later went right back to using the XP operating system. Read the full article on ComputerWorld.Com [via Hasta La Vista, Vista]

Huge Windows Error In London [pics]

as reported on MacFormat

Bill Gates Raves about the Mac (1984)

Back when Macs were new and Windows hadn’t been invented made by Microsoft yet, Bill Gates was interviewed at length about his thoughts on Macs. What did Bill have to say about them? You’d be surprised.

It’s kinda like those old razor ads that had the president stating: “I liked them so much I bought them company” but without the buying the company part. Read more.

Bonus: Video Clip

Vista Error [pic]

Windows Vista mail protects you from Microsoft’s phishing. [Picture]

File this one under irony. Vista’s e-mail program analyzes an e-mail from Microsoft and warns the recipient that the sender (Microsoft) is attempting what is known as a phishing scam. Have a look.

Dilbert [comic]

Man throws computer out window. Police empathize.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German man who startled his neighbours when he hurled his computer out of the window in the middle of the night, was let off for disturbing the peace by police who sympathised with his technical frustrations.

Police in the northern city of Hanover said they would not press charges after responding to calls made by residents in an apartment block who were woken by a loud crash in the early hours of Saturday.

Officers found the street and pavement covered in electronic parts and discovered who the culprit was.

Asked what had driven him to the night-time outburst, the 51-year-old man said he had simply got annoyed with his computer.

Anti-Theft: Hide your iPod or iPhone inside a gutted Zune!

We’ve all heard the stories about iPods being targets for theft. What if you could disguise your iPod as something people wouldn’t want to steal? Put it in a $30 Hide-a-pod, carefully constructed from a Microsoft Zune. Hide-a-pod is also available for your iPhone. Read more.

Vista: 150 problems, 0 solutions

Microsoft likes to boast that Vista is better than ever at logging difficulties with software and suggesting solutions through its Problem Reports and Solutions feature – but for an OS that’s been in final release for six months, the number of actual solutions is a tad on the minimal side. Here’s the sorry evidence of what actually happens when you try and get Vista to heal itself. This is a true story, and none of the names have been changed. Read more.

Bill Gates causes Hometown Clerk’s office to switch to Linux

When Bill Gates was building his house in Medina, WA, the sheer volume of permits it required forced the County Clerk’s office to move to a Linux based operating systems. The town looked into using NT to go with their Windows LAN, but went with Caldera’s Linux instead.

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McWindows out of McMemory [video]

Priceless.

(Click thumbnail for video.) 

One Day… [video]

Held off on posting this one until I was on a PC that had sound. Someone thought it’d be funny to take Microsoft’s promotional video for “Surface” and mock it. They were right. It is.

Windows Marketplace Presents: Ubuntu

Ubuntu had been hosted on the Windows Marketplace. Although it’s listing doesn’t seem to be counted when sorting by popularity. It fixes most of the bugs present in Windows and adds some extra functionality.

I wonder if it will do as well on Windows Maketplace as it’s doing on Amazon?

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Bill Gates Live Windows 98 Crash [video]

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of this one.

I once made an audio clip from it which I used as my Windows error sound effect. I had to get rid of it though because hearing it that many times a week… it got old quick.

Bill Gates declares Vista could run life support systems in Hospitals.

Journalist: Let’s imagine a hospital where life support systems are running Vista. Would you trust it with your life?

Bill Gates: …The answer to your question is that, absolutely… Read more.

If Microsoft made toasters

I believe that Microsoft’s domination of the PC software market has dulled and altered our expectations of the ‘fit for purpose’ and ‘use from the box’ aspect of all – not just computer software – products we now shell out our hard earned for. Read more.

A thought from the author: PC vs Mac

I came to a realization the other day while surfing around the net looking for things of interest. I happened to read a comment on a site from a PC user to a Mac guy. It was a very biased and ignorant comment that left me envisioning this PC user as a 5 year old kid with his index fingers in his ears yelling “Lalalalala. Macs suck. Lalalaa I can’t hear you!”

But then it hit me. I used to be one of those guys!

Dear Windows, (A Vista Review)

I’m sorry to do this with a letter but I don’t think I can handle seeing you in person. We both know that things haven’t been quite right between us these last couple of years. I’ve noticed that we’ve been drifting apart for a long time. I haven’t spoken with anyone in your family — Internet Explorer, Outlook, Office — in ages and have been spending more and more time with Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice. I was hoping we could work out our differences, but we’re beyond that. I hate to end things like this; I just don’t think we’re compatible anymore. Read more.

“Get a Mac” ads ruled valid in PC security claims

The British Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has vindicated Apple in contention over the company’s “Get a Mac” ads, which unnamed parties complained unfairly portrayed Windows as an insecure operating system. The ASA rejected these complaints, essentially stating that Apple’s claims are legitimate, and Macs actually are less virus-prone that counterpart Windows systems. Read more.

The ride died. [Pics]

Windows truly is everywhere. But these pictures raise the question: Is that always such a good thing? Joe Wilcox had a meeting at Caribou Coffee in a local mall today. Later on, he passed some kiddy rides near the exit. One of the rides caught his attention.

Russian ATM runs on unactivated copy of Windows [Picture]

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GM vs Microsoft

Bill Gates reportedly once compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $2500 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”

 In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors supposedly issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

Penny Arcade [Comic]

Humour: Microsoft bans Hitler’s 360 from Live. [video]

Stumbled across this. Thought it was funny. Now I share.

Bill Gates Will Punch You in the Face if You Call Him a Nerd

Apparently money can’t buy a sense of humor. In a recent interview with AdAge, Bob Garfield asked Bill Gates about his thoughts on the John Hodgman “I’m a PC” character from the Apple ads. Read more.

Microsoft: Why Not Use Your Phone as a Cheap PC?

Microsoft Research chief Craig Mundie said that Microsoft has a research project called “Fone+” that would allow the phone to work with a TV as a secondary display, and one that could allow video stored on the device to be played back on the television. Read more.

[I don't think my iphone will have room for Vista. Sorry Bill.]

1986 Mac vs 2007 Windows PC. Mac wins!

This sounds like a joke, but in a series of 17 tests measuring the speed of various everyday Word & Excel tasks, a 1986-vintage Mac Plus won 9 times over an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+. Check it out for yourself!

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Microsoft offers Amnesty Bin for iPods

From the entry way at Microsoft’s Zune headquarters: the iPod Amnesty Bin. It’s like seeing adorable puppies in a pound. I instinctively wanted to grab those poor sweet neglected iPods into my arms and give them a proper home. Someone ought to notify the association for the prevention of iPod cruelty.

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Costco turned Zune boxes into tables to sell iPods

Costco found a use for Microsoft’s Zune.

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The Top 15 most colorful, controversial Microsoft statements ever

In the pantheon of controversial Microsoft comments CEO Steve Ballmer’s quote this week about the Apple iPod: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item,” ranks right up there. But Between Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates that comment would be hard pressed to crack the Top 15 all-time most controversial or even colorful things the two of them have uttered in the past oh, 20 years or so.  Read more.

“Religion is not very efficient.” Bill Gates Quotes

Bill Gates is the Co-founder and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation. For the past 12 years, he has been considered the richest person in the world. Here are some of his famous quotes.

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Hilarious Review of Windows Vista

Read this guy’s review of Windows Vista, it’s super funny. It’s sort of like the pc vs mac thing, but funnier.

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Amazing Windows Utility!

This is a pretty cool gadget and it would be perfect Christmas gift for the techno-geek. Anyone that’s used a computer for any length of time has experienced the frustration that comes with that. The PC is one of the greatest innovations of our time, but it’s also one of the most aggravating. Between, bug filled operating systems, incompatible software applications, viruses, spyware, malware, adware and a whole host of other issues, it’s no wonder a popular subject in social networking circles and offices around the world is PC demolition. Read more.

When Viacom and Microsoft are in business together… [video]

This is what we get.Could this be MS’s influence on Viacom? (Parent company of CBS, Late Show, and Letterman.) as a result of being in business together? It’s a stretch I know.

Windows Vista: Stunning, Entertaining, Dependable (Pic)

All this and more can be yours! (Inconvenient software malfunction.)

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Picture of the day.

I remember being optimistic that Vista would solve XP’s stability problems.