February 2nd, 2008 — this sucks
A warning sign that you might be in for a bad user experience. Opening the Windows Vista box
It appears that my del.icio.us posts might come to a screeching halt now that Microsoft has made a bid to buy Yahoo!
I thought it was bad when Yahoo! bought Flickr and then del.icio.us but to their credit, Yahoo! let my two favorite sites carry on, mostly as they were. I can only imagine what a nutcase like Balmer would do once he gets his sweaty hands on them.
Time will tell but history tells us that they will cock this up much as they have done past acquisitions. Microsoft is not a customer oriented company, they’re an enterprise company. They have a terrible record when it comes to customer service, customer privacy, and customer choice.
It’s not that I’m worried that the world is coming to an end, I just don’t like the idea.
January 29th, 2008 — tech
Clearing out the old drafts…
October is turning out to be an excellent month for new operating systems. Ubuntu 7.10 is being released on Thursday. I’ve been using Ubuntu at work for a while now and I can’t wait to update. Price is free.
Apple has finally announced the release date for Leopard 10.5 is October 26th. I decided to do the pre-order thing and that means I’ll have my copy on the 26th. Well, hopefully. Purolator are not exactly good at delivering things which is odd given that is what they do.
Bonus points to Apple for charging Canadians the same price as they do ‘Mericans. Now if only they would do the same thing with their hardware… I also took advantage of my educational discount to get it for $115.
So Ubuntu is free and Leopard is $129. What does Microshaft charge? $499 And it sucks… If you decide to go with the 5 year old XP Professional, you’re still looking at $440
To be fair, my Media Center runs Vista and Media Center works just great. I’m sure my happiness has a lot to do with the fact that I never actually use Vista. Anyway I needed to bank an October post plus I’m all excited about the new OS’s coming out. I hate to miss a chance to slam Microshaft 
So that is all. See y’all in November…
