Windows 7: Will You Upgrade?
With Windows 7 officially released, will you be getting up early to purchase your copy? It has been a long time coming (I really don’t count Vista as a usable operating system), a stable a somewhat decent OS from Microsoft. Let’s be honest, the form and function of the new OS from the boys at [...]
10,000 Hotmail Passwords Leaked
According to reports online with confirmation from Microsoft, Over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail passwords were posted to pastebin earlier today. The accounts are genuine and look like they are mostly Eurpean users who use the @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @live.com domains. More specifically the leaked accounts include usernames that begin with ar to bl. If your [...]
Latest Microsoft Ad Without Jerry And Bill
There it is, the latest Microsoft ad without Jerry (Bill Gates is in this ad). Simple and sweet. I just hope they didn’t dump the entire $300 million into this ad. I could have put it together for them in Final Cut.
Jerry And Bill Get The Axe
Farewell Jerry and Bill, we barely knew thee. Just when I was actually getting analytical and trying to break down the hidden messages in the ads, Microsoft goes and pulls the plug on the whole $300 million campaign. Microsoft has decided to go with a slightly different advertising campaign. In place of Jerry and Bill [...]
Bill Gates And Jerry Seinfeld – Episode 2
The second Gates-Seinfeld Microsoft ad made it’s way into homes today, and to be honest was a million times better that their first spot about absolutely nothing that kicked off the $300 million dollar campaign. We learned that Gates and Seinfeld are on a quest to reconnect with real people. The latest installment has the [...]
First Microsoft Seinfeld Ad
$300 million dollars and two guys who are retired and this is what you get? If Microsoft is really serious about taking on Apple’s switch ads then they are going to have to do better than this. I’ve watched this ad 10 times now looking for a message and all that I have been able [...]
Leaked Screen Shots Of Windows 7
Could these be the first screen shots of the upcoming Windows 7? These screen shots appeared on a Chinese forum. No one has yet been able to confirm if these are real, but you never know, Microsoft is very secretive about the upcoming replacement to Vista. They do look a lot like Vista, but this [...]
Xbox Live Lawsuit Worth Pennies
Remember the class action lawsuit we talked about a few days ago that claimed over $5 million in damages for all for all Xbox Live downtime? Gaming Steve did some math and figured out that for a $50 a year Gold service membership, one day of outage is worth approximately $0.14. Tally that up to [...]
Xbox Live Lawsuit
It seems that a sincere apology and a free arcade game isn’t enough to satisfy the rage that some Xbox Live lovers have been suffering. Three Texans slapped the evil empire with a class action lawsuit this past Friday, claiming that the outrage and disruption of service is a breech of the Terms of Use [...]
Best of the week – Sept 3 – 9
Small Fry 1,000,000 Volt Mini Stun Gun (Frank) Hackers at Microsoft (Rob) Windows Error: “Operation Completed Successfully†(Frank) 26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256 (Frank) Learn to Hack (Rob) New Phone-less Ipod’s and more (Frank) How To: VGA over Cat-5 (Frank) Eco-Friendly DVR (Frank) Inflight USB: Power for you gadgets from an audio jack (Frank)
Best of the week – Aug 27 – Sept 2
How To: Make a USB Air Conditioner (Frank) Free File: SpaceMonger (Rob) How To: 360 Controller with a PSP (Frank) Network Magic: Easy Mac and PC networking (Frank) How To: Build a Night Vision System (Frank) Image retargeting (Rob) Microsoft puts the smack down on AutoPatcher (Rob) Hidden Flight Sim in Google Earth (Frank) Apple [...]
Scripting is baaaad
So, on Monday I reported on why you shouldn’t allow Flash on your network with the article: Nmap 127.0.0.1: Flash Style . Kind of hinting toward how a malicious site could scan your internal network without triggering your firewall, IPS/IDS, or sometimes even a host based firewall/ips. Today, I have a new threat that is [...]
Zune Price To Drop To $199
Seems that Microsoft thinks that the Zune’s success has been so well received that it’s chopping prices on it’s Zune, either that or they have one hell of a lot of units they need to move. Starting today you can pick up a shinny new Zune (and from what I hear they have a whole [...]
Rumours: Zune 2
Gizmodo’s got shots up of the new Zune 2 and Zune Flash players. Not to sure if these shots are real or not, but the above image shows an 80GB version and 4GB and 8GB flash models. If these indeed are real, has Microsoft not learned it’s lesson with the original Zune? The iPod killer [...]
Windows home server pricing leaked
Amazon.com today listed two HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server systems on their site. The two models being offered are, the HP EX470 and EX475, both have a 64-bit 1.8GHz AMD Sempron and have 4 slide-out drive bays that use standard SATA drives; the EX745 come preloaded with two 500GB drives already installed. Systems will run [...]
