The best thing about Silverlight is its icon. For regular users it’s a web-browser plugin that allows you to view and use Silverlight content. What Silverlight content is there? Media and stuff. Have you ever seen a website done completely in Flash? Well, now you can do that but with Silverlight. From my perspective this […]
Starting today, all video on MSNBC will now be available on the Mac without the need for Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac installed. Here’s how it works: If you hit the site with Win Internet Explorer 6 or 7 you get Windows Media video If you hit the site with Mac FireFox you get flash […]
Joel Spolsky talks about his Mac at home experience: I have a few complaints though: OS X antialiasing, especially, it seems, with the monospaced fonts, just isn’t as good as Windows ClearType. Apple has some room to improve in this area; the fonts were blurry on the edges. Also, I don’t understand all these people […]
You may not know it, but the Microsoft Redmond campus has like 100 different buildings. Okay, maybe not exactly 100, but there are a bunch, and for every 3 or so buildings, there is a different Microsoft cafeteria. Some buddies and I decided we’d try to visit each and every one, in Redmond at least, […]
I just got the most cordial email asking the most simple question: “What is MacBU?” Anyone who has spent any time at Microsoft knows the penchant demand for acronyms and jargon, it’s so prevalent that at one point someone created an internal glossary just so people could keep up with the alphabet soup. That project […]
Now this is interesting. Jack Greenfield and Keith Short take on the future of software development: Total global demand for software will grow by an order of magnitude over the next decade, driven by new forces in the global economy like the growing role of software in social infrastructure, by new application types like business […]
I’ve written before about our ExCodeWarrior dev shirts we got as reward for successfully moving our code from CodeWarrior to Xcode. Well, now you too, can pay your respects to CodeWarrior, in mournful black, as well as honor the great work the Xcode team has done, and all this in time for WWDC 2006! I’ll […]
This has got to be my all time favorite comment from the press: “The autonomy of this relatively small division allows Microsoft programmers to cut loose and design the best software they can imagine… Microsoft’s Mac offerings are routinely credited as being more innovative, elegant and robust than its mainline PC products” – Terril Yue […]
Brian Jones has a follow up post about the whole no default PDF support in Office debacle. It’s an interesting read that also points to the official statements of both Microsoft and Adobe regarding the issue. It seems like Adobe isn’t as concerned about financial implications of PDF creation loss as it is about losing […]
This has got to be the best one page guide to the details of switching from a Windows PC to a Mac I’ve seen so far. I’ve got a bunch of friends that have recently made the switch and this is what I’m going to have them read.
David Weiss 