It took me a second to spot it when I was told to compare the images on the English and Polish versions of their Business Productivity tools. At first I just saw three smiling Generic Corporate People, enjoying a Highly Productive Meeting while they look at Charts And Graphs. I noticed slightly different menu options, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Don’t Think I Can’t See You!
Okay, kids. This is just silly. This morning I ran metrics on my blog. WHY are so many of you guys still using IE6? I mean, I’m happy enough to see that Firefox 3 is the #2 browser for my visitors, but if it’s gonna be beaten out by IE, can’t it at least not [...]
I Won't Break Up with XP
Lots of things go in cycles. Classic-Romantic. Bear-Bull. Orthodox-Rebel. Technological-Natural. Lohan-Duff. One of the most stark patterns of cyclical behavior is that of the operating systems released by Microsoft. The Functional-Fubar cycle, unfortunately, has gone unbroken from the beginning. When Windows first came out, it was astonishing. Even Microsoft haters have to admit that. But [...]
Microsoft is Still the Whore of Babylon, but . . .
Now the prices have been lowered! One of Microsoft’s most reprehensible actions (among many) against its users has been its policy against backwards compatibility on the XBox 360. But it looks like somebody making decisions for them isn’t a completely heartless, greedy schmuck. In a surprising but pleasing move, Microsoft just announced a new patch [...]
