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November 01 Windows 7 not half bad ?I recently had a quick play with windows 7 and unlike the detested vista, I have to admit that it isn't all ugliness and loathsome disgust.
I can't help but notice on the actual screens that windows 7 feels very similar to XP with a little of vista mixed in but I still think that microsoft are going to do it hard for no other reason than what happened when vista came out.
People are consumers and despite rumours saying otherwise, consumers do not forget and they seldom forgive.
A prime example of this is Sony and the PS3. They trashed the european market and overcharged everything and had the audacity to remove features that were promised on release while pandering to the japanese and american markets.
They even went public with a head up the arse statement saying that they would not lower the price in euopean territories because they had tomake a set profit on each unit and europe was the one chosen to carry the financial burden because even though it is a smaller market, it has more gamers per capita than any other market in the world.
Now the developers have turned on sony saying that their userbase is so small, it really isn't worth the cost to publish games on their console.
Sony have in a desperate effort to expand their userbase have released the PSP Go - based on the iPod touch and dropped the prices of PS3 by making cheaper units.
This hasn't worked of course - the user base is growing but they are still hated and they will never see the profits from people that have iPhones etc or who sensibly went out and got an XboX instead.
I suspect that microsoft however are going to have a hard time of getting people to switch to windows 7 because lets face it - XP is just to easy to use and it gives alot of options at the word go.
Options are very important and nothing proves this like windows media player.
In windows media player 10, there was an option to right click on any song in your library and add it to your burn list.
This option does not exist in windows media player 11 so many have opted to stay with WMP 10.
The same problem arose when apple launched itunes 9.
They left out some radio streams, they cut off a few options.
What resulted was a massive backlash in their forums and a resetting to version 8.2 again by users who were desperate to keep their systems as best for options.
I guess one hard and fast rule is that if you're going to upgrade something, make damn sure it can do absolutly everything the old version can do, with more options.
Sadly though, many companies like microsoft do get things horribly wrong from time to time and the worst aspect of microsoft is that they have yet to learn the rule that if there's nothing wrong with a product, don't try to mess with it.
July 16 Bloody Microsoft (again)A few months ago there was a major security hack in microsofts Internet explorer, which was and is still being patched up in bits and pieces here and there, but to no avail, once the e-cat has been let out of the bag it's gone.
Microsofts once vaunted IE8 is trashed, so blindingly incompatible with so many sites that it's slower than IE7 and because the java platform is used in the hacks and both IE7 and IE8 rely so much on java, there will only be one cure which is to switch over to firefox as a browser.
The problem with firefox though is that the interface is very unintuitive and it takes ages before you get it set up in a way that pleases you.
Sadly for me, Microsofts failings don't really bug me, I have enough protection on my computer to save me from the worst viruses out there but since their updates, I haven't been able to log into my hotmail account through messenger, instead I have to first come to my profile and then go to messenger from there.
*shrugs*
In the meantime, I guess I can live with the annoyance but it is wearing thin.
In other news, starting to slap in more pictures - these are the weird and messed up pics that everyone seems to get on their computers so feel free to have a gander.
Also, I am about to load in the Meegos and winks pack which comes with its own installer. If you intend to download this pack, you may get a false positive reading from your antivirus (especially AVG) but rest assured that the pack is clean and easy to use.
As of this time, the background music on myspace is Emotion 98.3 FM from Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which is available for download from my public folders on here as well.
I am trying to arrange it so that all of the Vice City stations play in the background but to do this I require a direct streaming link to a file share site that doesn't limit its bandwidth or its upload quota.
Be assured that when I get this done, it will go up and you'll be able to listen to VCR all day anywhere you have a web connection.
Lastly, a big shout out to all of my good mates and friends, all of you make my day.
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