IE8 Beta 2 out!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Microsoft News
Straight from Neowin.net Microsoft has released beta 2 of it’s Internet Explorer 8 web browser.
You can get it from: here (XP, 2003 x86/x64, Vista x86/x64, 2008 x86/x64)
Related article: here
Tags: IE8, internet, Microsoft, neowin, web browsers
Vista: is it really that terrible, or just bad PR?
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Microsoft News
Is all the bad press Vista has gotten really just the placebo effect? Is it really that bad? Microsoft shows off their “New OS” “Mojave” to people who have not used Vista but have some negative thoughts or feelings about it to see if it indeed is the negative press that gives Vista a bad rap. I think this shows Microsoft’s ingenuity to work out a problem that might just be a bad PR problem with Vista, it also goes to show that stuffy old Microsoft can “think out of the box”.
Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment
Tags: Microsoft, Mojave, Vista, Windows
So long XP…
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Microsoft News, Windows
Microsoft has said they will not extend the cut-off deadline for it’s OEM distribution of XP, witch is set for June 30, 2008. After that date you will no longer be able to buy a new computer with XP pre-installed. They did say however they will extend support for it (updates and such) until 2014.
Tags: Microsoft, Windows XP
Microsoft says Vista UAC needs work.
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Windows
M$ admitted that UAC prompts needs work, the fact that most of these prompts are confusing to users and downright annoying. I remember back in beta 1 when I first noticed the UAC prompts I quickly found out how to disable this “feature” as I myself was quite annoyed by them.
“Clearly there is work that has to be done around the UAC prompts — in part because of user feedback that they get the prompts at times they don’t necessarily expect them and it is not intuitive.
“If you give people too many prompts in too many situations, they view it as an impediment to getting their work done and they just start clicking ok on everything,” said Charney. He said that the language used in prompts is also confusing.
“We give them dialogues and prompts that don’t help them make the right decision as often as we would like. You can be surfing the Web and get a warning that this site is out of another site’s control, or you may be passing data to another site. What is a user supposed to do with that information?
Quoted from MSFN
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Tags: Disable UAC, Microsoft, Vista, Windows
GameStop stops selling Zune.
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
GameStop has announced they would be no longer selling Microsoft’s iPod “killer” [laughs] due to lack of demand. Wait Gamastop was selling the Zune!? lol
Tags: GameStop, iPod, Microsoft, MP3 player, Music, Zune
Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Microsoft News, Windows
Today Microsoft finely releases more “Ultimate Extras”. Included are two new sound schemes: “Pearl” and “Glass” as well as a new content pack for DreamScene.
It was looking very bleak for the Ultimate Extras program for a while due to Microsoft’s uncertainty of the life of the program, maybe this is a sign of whats to come for the future of it. I sure am looking froward to what else they have in store for us Ultimate users (if anything).
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Tags: Microsoft, Ultimate Extras, Windows Vista
