Office 2010 ikoner

Det nye ved ikonerne er at de nu identificerer applikationer ved hjælp af det første bogstav i navnet. Spændende.

 

 

 

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Zune udenfor USA?

Via Liveside:

A story in the Financial Times today is reporting that Zune services will soon be expanding into a number of new markets:

The Zune-branded service – which includes the most popular films from MGM, Paramount and Universal – will be available in 18 of its largest western markets, including the US, UK, France, Germany and Australia.

The article doesn’t offer any timetable, or any news on whether the Zune HD will be available in these new markets.  In fact, there doesn’t appear to be any official word coming from Microsoft, at least in the form of a press release or similar.  However, The Financial Times quotes Christine Heckart, general manager for TV, video and music marketing at Microsoft, on bringing Zune to 3 screens (PC, TV, and Mobile):

“The strategy and vision of Zune is to continue to build out that full entertainment experience,” Ms Heckart said. “This is a very important step for us to introduce Zune to new consumers around the world.”

Continue @ Source

Source: Kip Kniskern @Liveside

Personligt tror jeg ikke en døjt på denne historie. Af en eller anden årsag dukker de op en gang hvert halve år, og hver gang blogger jeg om det – af en eller anden årsag. Så selvom om håbet er lysegrønt, så skal vi ikke regne med noget alternativ til iPod lige foreløbig. I hvert fald ikke i Danmark.

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October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux – Ars Technica

Der er nok nogle Apple fan boys der ikke er glade for denne artikel. Hvorom alting er, så giver det et meget godt billede af hvor store Microsoft er på OS delen.

Måske skulle man prøve noget nyt…

October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux – Ars Technica

MSN får nyt logo og nyt design i USA

Alle ved jo som bekendt, at der bor drager i Europa, og det er med al sandsynlighed grunden til at den redesignede udgave af MSN kun findes på amerikanse marked. Heldigvis kan man via interwebbet kigge på sider i andre lande, så hvis man har lyst til at se hvordan MSN ser ud i andre lande kan man klikke her.

Den nye udgave af MSN integrerer med Windows Live, Facebook og Twitter, hvilket jeg personligt synes er en rigtig god ide. Det kunne godt gå hen og blive min nye startside.

Desuden er designet en del mindre rodet end tidligere, og minder mere om Windows Live designet end tidligere.

Det er selvfølgelig Bing der leverer søgningerne, hvilket vel næppe er den helt store overraskelse.

Ina Fried har meget mere om MSNs redesign her.

 

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Oversatte IT Titler

Nappet fra eCarlos.

 

Chairman of the Board — Significance through Stock

Chief Executive Officer — Meeting Master or Chief Shmoozer

Chief Financial Officer — Using Technology to Fool the IRS

Chief Technology Officer — I Was Once a Techy, Believe Me!

Technical Manager — Deficient Code Writer

Architect — Self Declared Demi-god

Senior Developer — Waiting for the Architect to Leave or Die

Software Engineer — Coding the Damn Blue Sky Requirements Again

Support Engineer — Bending over, way over, to serve you

Help Desk Technician — On the Phone Watching Life Pass By

PC Technician — Fixing Windows so it actually works

Marketing Rep — Catered luncheon specialist

Sales Rep — Selling Air for the third straight year

Janitor — Former CEO of the acquired company

Yahoo Mail Suffers Outage: Endnu et slag mod Cloud Computing?

It appears that Yahoo Mail is suffering from an outage. Complaints from Yahoo Mail users are all over Twitter. It’s unclear how extensive the outage is and what is causing the issue but we’ll report back when we find out.

Yahoo Mail is currently the No. 1 Web mail service with 300 million people using it worldwide, so even a smaller outage could result in a large amount of people not having access to their email accounts. Competitor Gmail also succumbed to a serious outage recently, leaving users with nearly eight hours of downtime.

Update: It appears that the outage isn’t system-wide but users are still complaining of the service being down. Coincidentally, Yahoo is shutting down Geocities today so perhaps they pulled the wrong plug?

Source: Leena Rao @ TechCrunch

Der har godt nok været mange udfald i cloud services på det sidste. Microsofts Danger, Googles Gmail og nu Yahoo mail. Gad vide om dette afskrækker potentielle cloud service kunder?

 

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Windows 7 launch Buzz

Ikke overrraskende, har der siden den 22. oktober været en hel masse buzz omkring frigvelsen af Windows 7. Jeg har selv brugt den nyeste udgave af Windows i et par månder, og der er virkelig grund til at få fingrene i dette styre system.

Der har selvfølgelig været en masse buzz på nettet, men det mest interessante har efter min mening været noget af alt det hardware, der er kommet på gaden samtidig med Windows 7. Især touch funktionalitet er der lagt meget vægt på.

Jeg har samlet et par links nedenunder til artiler og blog posts omkring Windows 7 frigivelsen:

You deserve a Better PC – Get in “Touch” with HP and Upgrade now

Microsoft wows Windows 7 crowd with Internet TV

Kindle goes multitouch on Windows 7

Windows 7: Microsoft’s touchy-feely launch

 

Sidst men ikke mindst:

Mac Boot Camp to support Windows 7 by year’s end

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Apple today promised to update its Boot Camp partitioning tool to support Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate before the end of the year.

In a support article posted to Apple’s site today, it says the Boot Camp upgrade will be brought to most Intel-based Macs running OS X Snow Leopard. The sole exception at this point is the 2006 line, where Windows 7 will not be supported by the 17" and 20" iMac, 15" and 17" Macbook Pro and 2.66GHz or 3GHz Mac Pro. These units represent the first generation of Intel-based Macs, and represent a transitional period in the Mac architecture.

Users of these particular models who wish to install Windows 7 will have to do so on a virtual machine through software such as Parallels 4.0 or the soon-to-be-launched VMware Fusion 3.0. Parallels 4.0 has supported Windows 7 in its earlier forms for about six months.

Boot Camp currently only supports Windows XP and Vista in its official documentation, but a number of users claim to have already installed Windows 7 with no problem.

 

 

 

Source: Tim Conneally @ Betanews

Steve Ballmer: Den fødte sælger

Jeg sad og så Launch videoen fra Microsoft i går, og selvom der er mange, der ikkebryder sig om SteveB, så er han simpelthen den fødte sælger. Tjek det lille klip nedenunder, og lyt tl den måde han taler på. Kort, præcis og super entusiastisk.

 

 

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Do they speak English in What?: Google Wave

Fedeste Google Wave demo.

 

 

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Microsoft TechTalk: @auchenberg præsenterer

MIn tidligere kollega Kenneth aka @auchenberg har lavet en lille præsentation om jQuery, som ahn gav ved sidste Microsoft TechTalk her i Danmark. Lyden er desværre ikke så god, men hvis man leve med det, så er det faktisk en ret interessant gennemgang – selv for en lægmand.

Du kan se præsentationen her.

 

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