Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
With Bing gaining a percentage point in search market share I would like to point out there are very good reasons on why I will not use the Microsoft search engine. First off, the msnbot practices in referral spam. If you look at your stats and see random one word searches coming from Bing, you’ll [...]
John Gruber at Daring Fireball recently posted a quote from Steve Ballmer of Microsoft. “Apple gained about one point, but now I think the tide has really turned back the other direction. The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment — same piece of hardware — paying $500 more [...]
Dear Internet Users Across the World, Please stop using the horrible piece of software that came pre-installed on your PC known as Internet Explorer. Not only do you make the job of web designers a lot harder each and every day you use it, but you also leave yourself more open to attacks from malicious [...]
Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Windows 7 for public download today, but this post isn’t about that. This post is about what Microsoft needs to do when Windows 7 is officially launched. It is no secret that Vista was a failure. Businesses have held off on installing Vista, so much that the big [...]
Ever since Microsoft began its attempt to takeover Yahoo I started thinking about the future of Flickr. That’s really the only Yahoo service I use (and I pay for). Microsoft does not have a good history with web services. Yeah, at the beginning of the web everyone had a Hotmail account, but they quickly fell [...]
