All I want to know is this: is anyone going to shell out this much money for any OS? I know this is the Ultimate edition, afterall, but when is too far? What is the most you would pay for an OS, regardless of platform, etc.? I’d love to hear opinions on this. Leave a [...]
As I mentioned several days ago, Microsoft publicly released the second beta of Office 2007 last week at their WinHEC conference. I, like many of my early-adopting, sneezing peers, raced to download, install and test some or all of the components of the coming Office suite. I wrote that my early impressions were those of [...]
My first impression of Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 is actually really positive, despite the fact that I had very low expectations. I’ve now been playing with Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Publisher and am amazed at what they’ve done with the user interface. I never expected to see something like this from Microsoft. [...]
Earlier today, Microsoft, during their annual WinHEC conference, release a public beta of Office 2007. I tried to download it earlier today, but the servers were predictabely getting slammed. I’m downloading the installers now and will post a review later tonight or tomorrow. I’ll focus mostly on what’s going to matter to the average busines [...]
According to an article over at ars technica, a Skype executive mentioned that he has no worries about ISPs charginga premium to carry Skype traffic over their pipes. He believes that the Skype user base will cause an uproar with the ISP(s), such that the ISP(s) will have to reconsider their decision to cash in [...]
Google Notebook is live, which we knew would happen. Here’s what was somewhat of a surprise to me: it’s a Firefox extension. I certainly didn’t see that one coming. Did anyone else? It’s late, but I’ll give a short review here. First, a “Note this (Google Notebook)” item has been added to the Firfox contextual [...]
Can it possibly be true? Even though this is only guaranteed to run through the end of the year, this is a big announcement. With everything that’s happening with the NSA and telcos, there couldn’t be a better time to offer someone an alternative. There were already over 6 million people on Skype as of [...]
You know blogging has hit the mainstream when the the largest software company in the world integrates blogging support into the most widely used office application suite in the world. AMCP Tech Blog: Word 2007 to support Blogging Tags: Microsoft, blogging, blogs, blog, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Bryan Bartow, spunik187
Pete Cashmore from Mashable has posted an blurb via Skype Journal regarding the integration of PayPal into the Skype client. There was a discussion over at either TechCrunch or GigaOm about the disaster that was the Skype purchase by eBay. I had, and still do have, a very different feeling about the purchase. I think [...]
Ya think? Of course, hindsight is 20/20. I admire the confidence Brin and Page had asking for $1 billion at a time when things were really bad and no companies were selling for any amount of money. They obviously knew what Google would become and saw immense value. I’d say they made the right decision. [...]
