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Why Windows 7 Reminds Me of The Star Trek Movies

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The joke has always been that Microsoft have been The Borg, but I’m wondering if they’re more like the Star Trek Movies. Specifically, the curse of the Star Trek movies where the odd numbered films are rubbish. No, bear with me. Here’s the Trek movies and the generally accepted view of them The Motion Picture: the first, so we didn’t know what to expect. A bit slow and bloated. The Wrath of Khan: KKKkkkkhhhhhaaaaaaaaannnnnnn!!!! Probably the best film ever. The Search For Spock: Acceptable sequel which misfired, but worked. The Voyage Home: The funny one, but a great buddy movie

Microsoft’s Live Mesh: Some Thoughts

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So last night (or 5am for us Brit’s, what great timing) Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie unveiled Live Mesh, the 10,000 user beta of some of the ideas talked about at Mix08. In essence this is the start of Microsoft’s journey into cloud computing and ‘Somethng-as-a-Service’ facilities. The beta is now currently full up, but those signed up to will get an XP/Vista client, access to 5gb of online storage, and sync between desktop PC’s and the online ‘Live desktop.’ Currently file and folder sync is available – drop a file in any one device into the live folder and it is

Microsoft Vista Rocking Video and Spitting Image’s RS232 Interface Lead

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A number of sites picked it up, and probably called it correctly as Epic Fail (for example Matthew Ingram’s “Suuuuure it is, whatever makes you guys feel better. I suppose all of these incredible lame videos were in jokes too, right?”). You see, things are funny when the viewer knows they are meant to be funny. There are lots of funny songs about computers and technology – if this had been published by DogHorse, and pushed by B3ta, we’d all be happy with it. After all, Spitting Image managed to rack up a love song to the RS-232 Interface Cable..