From my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley :
“Even Apple — with a fanbase so loyal that many would throw their iPods and iPhones off a bridge if CEO Steve Jobs told them to — is coming to realize that it’s inappropriate to answer legitimate questions and complaints with silence.”
And just to keep a little balance… The topic of Mary Jo’s post is Microsoft’s marketing effort for Windows Vista, about which she notes,:
Whether you think — from a technology standpoint — Windows Vista finally is the product it should have been when Microsoft released it to manufacturing in November 2006, it’s plain, even to the most loyal Softie, that the marketing side of the Windows unit has been lagging . (I’d like to use a stronger word or two here, but ZDNet is a family blog network.)
I’m working on a big project that will be posted this afternoon at ZDNet. Stay tuned.
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Safari on Windows is slow. No, fast. Wait…From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-06-13 14:33:12
Stopwatches at 30 paces.
Dylan Tweney :
The results show that Safari is slower than both IE 7 and Firefox in the login page and message index tests, in both cases by a substantial margin. Only when loading Google Calendar does Safari have a slight edge, clocking in at 12.8 seconds to IE’s 17 seconds. But even there, Firefox has both the other browsers beat.
Scott Hanselman :
Safari on Windows is not slow. The question is, are you willing to put up with a Mac-like...
more Ultimate Extras, MIAFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-06-13 13:08:41
Josh has a good question :
Ultimate Extras, Where are you?
Indeed. Seven months after Vista’s RTM and more than four months after the January 30 retail kickoff, there are no “cutting-edge programs or innovative services,” only Hold ‘Em,which lets you playpoker against imaginary opponents, and DreamScene, which allows you touse a video clip as your desktop background.
That’s it?
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more Oops! Microsoft exposes hidden data in a Word documentFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-06-13 06:47:31
The other day I mentioned what happens when you don’t pay attention to potentially embarrassing data that might be buried in Word documents. So I was especially amused to find an example on Microsoft’s own site.
Microsoft UK offers a FAQ on licensing , which in turn contains a link to a “Virtual-machine environment brief” (link leads to a file in Word .doc format). When I opened the document in Word 2007, I saw a slew of proofreading and editing changes, ...
more The GoogleFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-06-12 13:00:46
I thought it was just George W. Bush who called the world’s biggest search company “the Google.”
But apparently everyone in Washington does it. Witness this report from today’s Washington Post :
I’m updating my style guide now.
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