I just thought I’d mention it 😉
The new broswer requires a System Update, then an Application Update of the browser from the Shopping Channel.
The actual browser is (now) a joy to use – the (auto) scaling and scrolling work perfectly, there are no black borders, and the control bar can either auto-hide and be manually toggled. The entire UI is much-streamlined too.
We’ve recently been looking at buying a new low-cost server for running demos from. To reduce costs, we went for a standard consumer motherboard, and the system will, naturally, be running Linux.
I’ve become fairly disillusioned with the PCs in general (get a Mac!) and so I’ve not been keeping up to date with the latest developments in the PC world… what I found shocked me.
A couple of weeks ago I attended the OpenSolaris stream of the Sun Microsystems’ “Tech Days 2007” developers conference in London (actually in a church at Westminster, just across from the houses of commons. In fact, whilst I was there I saw David Blunket being taken for a walk by his minder. His dog was galavanting around freely. This was also when the protesters were gathered outside trying to influence the vote over whether Britain should renew her Trident Missile system – and what a surprising eloquent, friendly, and outgoing group of people they were).
“Fax receiving now works when the country code is set to France.” – how does this happen by accident??
(P.S. Isn’t “Mac OS X 10” at least partially redundant?)
In an act of incredible muppetry, Microsoft have managed to deploy a download system that only works on Windows 🙁
After hearing Paul Thurrott waxing lyrical about Windows Home Server on the (rather good) TWiT podcast (does that mean the same in the USA as here?), I decided to sign up for the beta… and this morning, it was accpeted!
Although not widely publicised, Sony has quietly let slip that they have dropped hardware backwards-compatibility from the European PlayStation3 as a cost-reducing measure, even though the more affordable 20Gb variant will not be available and the 60Gb console is likely to cost more here than in either Japan or the Americas.
Well, it’s official. Proof, if ever proof were needed, that Microsoft really hates you. Or, at least, cares so little for you that it’s willing to not only severly limit what you’re able to do, but that it also wants to waste your time.
Ars Technica reports that the Upgrade edition of Vista, on sale from Tuesday, will only allow upgrades from already installed editions of Windows.
(This contrasts with all previous versions of Windows, where you could simply insert the CD from a previous edition of Windows to allow the upgrade to install)
This makes restoring a working system after some form of failure a much longer process – since two OS need to be installed rather than one.
I was playing with the Windows XP installation (via Bootcamp) on my Mac the other night, and Windows Update offered Windows Media Player 11 as an update.
I currently have three(!) copies of Windows on my Mac Book Pro 😀
I have Windows XP and Windows Vista (or is it now just “Vista”?… it’s the MSDN Home Premium edition, at any rate) running under Parallels, and Windows XP installed via Bootcamp.
The concept (which I may or may not stick with) is to have Windows/Bootcamp available for games, and Parallels for Office and other Windows-only apps.