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Microsoft has given up all pretensions when it comes to the “Post-PC” era. They are in the game, and they’re going for broke. They want you to take off the shackles of fragmentation from your life and ascend to the cloud. The recently released ‘Consumer Preview’ of their next big “Windows” release suggests nothing else. It also suggests that a rumor that has been going around for some time now really is true: Windows 8 will be the last Windows operating system as we know it. It is the end of the...
It has been suggested recently by tech bloggers that the product currently codenamed "Windows 8", may not end up being called "Windows 8" at all. Here are some of the more commonly proposed names, that will probably never happen: Windows 8 Why it's the most probable: Do we need to say it? Windows 7 was codenamed "Windows 7" right from the get-go, and ended up being called that because it just made sense (though many would argue that it only made sense if you counted...
There was a time when my blog was the source of talk and inspiration in the Microsoft Israel community. It was the twilight days of Windows Vista and Windows 7 was in beta stages and gaining popularity, so I took the neat and clean Aero interface and based my blog design on that. At the time, it was the top of the line. I was even invited to Microsoft to give a lecture on blog design, and was referred by them to partner companies to help them design their own blogs. Since then, however, a rich man...
The recently announced Microsoft/Nokia partnership seemed to have come out of nowhere, but somehow it also seemed natural; Nokia and Microsoft, both veterans in many high-tech fields, have been trying to no avail to infiltrate the smartphone market for years. Microsoft recently reinvented their take on the smartphone world, a field at which they at one time excelled, but it was too little to late. While the software has a strong basis and a solid infrastructure, it doesn’t offer anything substantially...
Those of you who have been following my blog closely (even those of you who don’t read Hebrew), know that there’s one particular feature of Windows 7 which I was overtly excited about. That feature is the much anticipated and eventually disappointing “Device Stage” . Device Stage was supposed to be this window that pops up when you connect a device to your computer. Any device. The Window’s icon would be a photo-realistic icon of that device, and the stage would allow you to sync files, see battery...
Living in Israel, for years I’ve been living a lie. As you may or may not know, the broadcasting standard here is the same as Europe: PAL. PAL is a broadcasting standard for analogue European televisions, VCRs, DVDs, game consoles, etc. ‘Broadcasting Standard’ is the definition of the analogue stream which is translated to the color separation method, the resolution, and the frame rate used by the broadcaster or device. Most of the content in Israel comes from America, which uses NTSC – a different...
Why "Device Stage" is starting to look like a failed promise...