My Experience at the world’s first Holographic Hackathon So this past weekend I went to Seattle to participate in the first ever Holographic Hackathon. This event sponsored mainly by Microsoft gave a select number of lucky individuals the opportunity to work with the Microsoft HoloLens device. As an organizer of hackathons for the past few years I was beyond excited to… Read More
Why MS Cortana is a minor threat to Apple’s Siri, for now. Just read that in June Microsoft will release their voice assistant Cortana for Android and iOS. This is great for those of us who want to try something new who use Android and Google Now search, which is very good, but sometimes you want something a little more conversational. For my friends who have been complaining about Siri not… Read More
Microsoft Builds the future of Augmented Reality with HoloLens At its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft provided some new details on its HoloLens virtual reality device it announced back in January. HoloLens is a head-mounted, holographic computer with a depth camera that provides a mixed-reality experience for a range of applications. I briefly covered the HoloLens in a previous post and was… Read More
Pebble watch working with Microsoft phones? Kinda? Download at the end. I’m sure you have seen the news. Microsoft has a private beta out there for 48, now 24 hours, and then … well we do not know what will happen then. However, the simple beta is mostly about getting bluetooth notification with Pebble to work. Although this sounds pretty simple and not indicative of an… Read More
The Cloud Office war is finally reaching full pitch as Microsoft finally moves its heavy Armor onto the field This has been building up for sometime. As with the Great Mobile War and Browser War, the Great Office Cloud War has 3 players, Google, Apple and now Microsoft. In the beginning, there was Google Docs. Google docs were pretty simple but had one great advantage. You could start a doc on one machine, go… Read More
Windows 10 is coming, and why there may never be a Windows 11, instead Windows 365 I upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 then 8.1 I have not had any more major issues with it short of the UX/UI that is basically common knowledge at this point. I’ve downloaded Windows 10 and although I have not experimented with it too much, its a better experience then 8, so I feel I’m… Read More
Why Microsoft is developing a smartwatch.. because they have to It was announce through Forbes that Microsoft is planning on releasing a watch in the next few weeks. No solid news on what it will look like yet, but my bet is that it will look somewhat like the LG; clean, simple square. It is reported that it will have bio metric tracking as is… Read More
Microsoft Adds To Office Line With Sway Storytelling App Before Windows Phone and the Windows Store, some of the software most associated with Microsoft was Office. But though the Office portfolio has undergone several updates and refreshes over the years, the lineup itself has remained relatively unchanged — until now. Microsoft rolled out a preview version of Sway , its new storytelling app, which… Read More
windows 8 does not see SSD when installing I took the 540 spin drive out of a new cheap laptop and decided to put an old SSD in. Yes it totally makes a differnce. However, when trying install off the USB drive, windows would not see the SSD I just installed. After a number of trying and lots of searching, I found the… Read More
Windows 9 rumors, something new, something old So already the rumor mill has been churning for Windows 9. According to BetaNews, Win9 will see a return to some well loved and missed elements of Win7 and a few news things that may or may not leave a good taste in your mouth. Speaking of taste, the return of the Start button and… Read More
How to fix a blurry, low resolution screen after updating to Windows 8.1 I pulled the trigger and updated to Windows 8.1 and first thing I was greeted with was a blurry, low resolution screen. What the? Do I did a bit of digging and found the fix. It has to do with DPI scaling which I would bet is related to handling tablets screens. Annoying. However,… Read More
Free Windows 8.1 upgrade set to release in Oct. .. it aint much I have Windows 8 on all of my machines. Not so much because I live Windows 8, but more that I got the licenses when they were on sale and it actually runs better on old machines. That being said, I have yet to use the chicklet ‘metro’ elements of the OS. Even on my… Read More
Microsoft cracks and reverses Xbox One DRM features So Microsoft reversed itself. All along they have been claiming that DRM is the soul of the system, and they reverse it in a few days. What a joke. Here is the thing, the can turn it back on again anytime they want. Also, now they claim they had to remove family and other features. … Read More
Edit Microsoft docs on the iphone. New App from Microsoft 360. Video demo Well this came from nowhere. I guess they do not want to give iPhone users any more reason to get another iPhone instead of a Windows phone, but Office is Microsoft’s biggest profit product, and they know they need to move to the cloud with 360, so they bit the bullet and released an iPhone… Read More
Scroogled adverts are horrible, and Microsoft is starting to see that .. or not Sigh. I just do not get Microsoft sometimes. Most of the time their commercials are ok, and now and again, they are just pointless fluff as their surface commercials. Then their latest efforts, we go to dumb bordering on insulting. {Update: According to TC, they are NOT going to end it. In fact, there is… Read More
Get Windows Media Center Free till Jan 31 if you have Windows 8 pro I just got a heads up on this. Go to this address. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs And remember, you only have till the end of the month before the price of Windows 8 jumps from $40 to $200. If you have a PC, ESPECIALLY if you have an old one, get it. … Read More
Grow up Windows haters. You sound like a bunch of trolls I was around during the PC wars of the 90’s, watch people piss on Windows when XP came out, then piss on Vista (although Vista deserved it) and then 7, and now everyone is hating on Windows 8 because of “Metro”. Screw off. While I think the whole apps thing on Apps on Windows 8… Read More
Windows 8 evaluation version timing out today It was going to happen sooner or later. Windows 8 crashed on me, rebooted, then said it will reboot in an hour and every 2 hours after that. Sigh. Fair enough, but why pretend it was a crash? Could have just have a picture of the grim reaper and said, “Your time is up”. Ah… Read More
The Microsoft Surface commercial is bad. And they should feel bad too When I first saw the commercial for Microsoft’s surface, my first reaction, was ‘Ug’. Why the hell are all these kids jumping around just because a keyboard was connected to a tablet? Kind of like why when I drink a beer, tonnes of my friends and a bevy of hot babes do not suddenly come… Read More
Preview of the new Microsoft site. Metro with dynamic media response Well this is a treat. Via reddit I checked out a preview of the new Microsoft.com preview website. Its pretty clear they are all in with Metro, and also all in with 1 view from many devices as demonstrated by the use of dynamic media response. {Update} Seems they have this redirecting now. Shame. The… Read More