21st Century Digital Boy

This article goes on at length listing 18 features Windows “should have but doesn’t”.

Let me save you some time.

It lists everything currently en vogue in Mac OS X (Spaces, Expose, Spotlight, etc) and a couple of random Linux features.

In short, “blah blah blah, I want a Mac that runs all the games I have”. Well, buy one and dual-boot it, jagoff, and quit your bitching.

There is nothing more frustrating than years of “Macs are toys no one wants” then endless articles on how to replicate their features.

First, the industry needs a more compelling alternative in search and online advertising.

Google is eating our lunch.

The focus of our combined company will be to build great experiences and platforms for our joint consumers, advertisers, and publishers.

That stuff about ‘a computer on every desk’, that’s mostly done now, so we’re changing the mission to ‘an ad on every screen, served by a Microsoft-affiliated ad network’, as soon as we make it sound less soul-sucking.

While some overlap is expected in any combination of this size,

it’s getting better as more Yahoo!s flee the sinking ship.

Services we’ve acquired over the years have been based on both Windows and open source technologies.

The freetards have a price, and everyone else is basically doing market research for us.

Although Windows is our strategic platform and in some cases the teams ultimately migrated their products to Windows for a variety of reasons, in other cases we have prioritized continuity and have used open interoperability mechanisms to achieve effective systems integration.

You will have the front end on ASP.NET by the end of next quarter.

Yahoo! has made significant investments in both its skills and technologies, so we would work closely with Yahoo! engineers to make pragmatic platform and integration methodology decisions as appropriate, prioritizing above all how those decisions would impact customers.

Until enough of the original team is gone, and we can get everything ported over to Windows platform stuff.

Prior to close of the transaction, no Microsoft employee should reach out to Yahoo! employees for the purpose of integration planning unless specifically instructed to do so by the integration team and its LCA advisors.

It is also considered unsporting to point and laugh.

Am I the only person sitting with jaw dropped over how people are raving that with Silverlight Microsoft rebooted the web?

Microsoft.
Rebooted.

One of the (innumerable) chief complaints about Apple and the Mac is that you are not buying a computer you can upgrade with impugnity; you’re locked in.

This has changed slightly with the Intel switch, but not enough to matter to anyone. So it comes as a little bit of a shock to me to read this Ars Technica post, about OEM versions of Vista:

OEM software is also tied to the motherboard it is first installed on.

I suppose this wouldn’t be an issue, except that (at least among the people I know) they all buy OEM (from NewEgg, etc) to save 50% (or more) and because they do that thing where they hand-roll their own slipstreamed SP with drivers, blah blah blah.

So under Vista, you can’t upgrade your mobo. I am sure this will go over so well with the upgrade ricer crowd.

If Valve released Half-Life for Mac OS X or Linux, Microsoft would be a forgotten memory.