Windows 7 without IE in Europe

That’s big and in my opinion a step in the right direction. Now Windows 7 needs to bring a feature to choose from a different set of browsers. Internet Explorer 8 is for sure competitive so I think sill a lot of people will choose it as their primary browser.
… but what about the media [...]

Windows 7

I’ll probably get Windows 7 for my new Phenom II machine once it’s out. Ubuntu Ultimate is nice and stuff but that’s simply not Windows. I totally denied getting Vista but 7 looks great and finally MicroSoft is listening to user feedback – aghemm! – finally !!!

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Ads in YouTube

Did you notice them? I don’t think this is a great idea, but hey in Gmail people think it’s great when Google AdSense reads their emails to serve relevant ads. This is Google… I tell ya! People love it! Put Google on Yahoo search results and people will love them. They will tell you that [...]

Microsoft going crazy with “I’m a PC” campaign

After the epic fail of the Gates & Seinfeld ads Microsoft is going crazy. Now they ask users to make the “I’m a PC” ads. Outch! Did the “I’m a Mac I’m a PC” ad hurt so much? Wake up!
Info about the UGC (User Generated Content) campaign of Microsoft:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/microsoft-asks.html
So this is the original that hurt [...]

BASIC

I’m no software engineer. I know PHP but never used it really at work or a real project. I started to build a custom webshop for my wife once but never finalized it.
The only programming language that I use is Visual Basic… and I like it. Recently I created a program for cleaning up messy [...]

Microsoft reduces prices on Office

OpenOffice scared the hell out of Microsoft! They are reducing prices on Microsoft Office! Wow!
http://www.ameinfo.com/172399.html
IMHO OpenOffice is better and it’s for free. Most important it doesn’t make you feel so lost like Office 2007. They should also reduce prices on Vista, before the same happens with people moving to Linux distros like Ubuntu Ultimate.