Opinion

Guy (with ax to grind?) disses Bing / Kayak deal

kayakWe’re sure that Jay Bhatti is probably a very nice guy.  Maybe he doesn’t have much to do after Spock.com was sold, or maybe he misses his old pals in Redmond.  Whatever.  But when a guy guest posts on …

The CES Keynote yawn: is it Ballmer or is it Microsoft?

The early returns are filtering in, and our personal first impressions, along with others from around the web, were, shall we say, underwhelming.  Nick Eaton at the Seattle PI, for one, was left wanting:

What we don’t know is

A Windows Live Holiday wishlist

dear-santaNext month we’ll begin our 6th year of covering Windows Live news and information.  We’ve seen a lot come and go in the past 5 years (brought home by our recent move to WordPress which caused us to go back …

The Vail debacle: Why Microsoft still doesn’t get the consumer

Yesterday’s announcement on the Windows Home Server blog about the decision to pull Drive Extender functionality from Vail/Aurora/Breckenridge is just yet another example of how Microsoft, while perhaps doing the right thing in the short term for their business, continues …

Google Cloud Print – where is Live Mesh for Devices?

I recently came across an article on Neowin which mentioned that an upcoming Google product might be coming soon to Google Docs – named Google Cloud Print. While reading this article, it led me to think back to what Microsoft

Is Ray Ozzie going down fighting?

Last week Steve Ballmer announced that Ray Ozzie would be stepping down from his position as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, and today , Ozzie published a memo he wrote to “Executive Staff and direct reports”, entitled “The Dawn

Thoughts on the Live Gallery/Live Writer Plug-in Change

Windows Live Gallery is dead! Ok, technically it’s not, but it looks like it hasn’t long left of this world. Yes, yes, I know, we’re basing this on purely one section of the site being cut off and …

Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 issue fixed

Windows Live CalendarLast week we posted about Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 experiencing calendar display issues soon after the upgrade. David Dennis, Principal Lead Program Manager of Windows Live Hotmail/Calendar, has kindly commented on our blog post, as well as following up …

Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 upgrade causing calendars and events to disappear?

Earlier this month, one of my Windows Live accounts started to encounter some problems, as none of my calendars and events would like to load in Windows Live Calendar. Not only this, but each time I start up my Windows …

Microsoft, the mobile market, and KIN: off to a bad start

Well it didn’t take long for someone to show Microsoft and Verizon just how badly they’ve botched the pricing plans for the KIN.  Barely 12 hours after Microsoft and Verizon announced that it will cost at least $70/mo + …