Tag / Microsoft

A num­ber of my friends seem to think that I am anti-Apple. Noth­ing could be fur­ther from the truth (well…outside my dis­dain for the very restric­tive  ecosys­tem). I love the design and reli­a­bil­ity of Apple prod­ucts, though I don’t own any­thing made by Apple. A while back, peo­ple (read Android users) were doing cart­wheels when the […]

For as long as I can remem­ber, Microsoft has not been known for deliv­er­ing clever ads. Apple, shoot…even Gate­way, have been at the head of the class fresh adver­tis­ing. Along comes the release of Win­dows Phone 7, and mabye — just maybe — Microsoft has turned the cor­ner toward cre­ativ­ity. Really.

It seems like an eter­nity, almost two years, since Microsoft talked about launch­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of Win­dows Mobile. Since the first whis­pers, the update has taken a dra­matic turn, includ­ing a rebrand­ing — Win­dows Phone 7. At long last, it appears the launch is draw­ing near.  The offi­cial word is still ambigu­ously just  “fall,” though […]

I’m talk­ing about Win­dows Mobile 7 (WinMo 7). As many of you know, I have been eye­balling Apple com­put­ers and Google Android-powered mobile phones. How­ever, my haunted Zune issues notwith­stand­ing, I am still will­ing to give Microsoft a shot in the per­sonal com­puter, per­sonal music player and mobile phone are­nas. I upgraded my Toshiba laptop […]

I try so hard to give Microsoft a chance. Though nearly all my pho­tog­ra­phy and cre­ative arts friends urge me to get a Mac­Book Pro, I’ve been hang­ing in there with my Win­dows Vista-running Toshiba lap­top. (I would say note­book, but this big 17″ widescreen Jimmy takes up my whole lap!) Like­wise, my friends look […]