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Re: Live Mesh Is Open To All in the U.S.

Avatar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:02:47 -0000

hehehe, i don`t know if that means you have seen it or not. maybe not, if you knew then you would know is one of those "watch but forget you watched it" things. and it is not hosted anywhere online either.

Re. yeah, i think so. a small one if even. the coments over at liveside have already digested and pointed out all the details in the update too.

Re: XBox Division at Microsoft - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:39:42 -0000

microsofty or microsoftie

Re: Moonlight 1.0 goes live - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:14:34 -0000

Congratulations Miguel. i guess that mean a pre-beta of moonlight 2 is still on track for mix09

Re: Moonlight 1.0 goes live - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:54:11 -0000

chalalo?

que buen nombre y que buen blog eh.. bookmarked

Re: Moonlight 1.0 goes live - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:07:02 -0000

silverlight 3 will include a fit client, you will can also do apps by doing silverlight enabled gadgets, using the live framework, using live mesh desktop and finally by packing tight everything in a xap you can also turn them into .exe's in windows if you use desklighter. the only problem left with that last approach is how to hide the chrome. a htmlapp like way would be the best approach for that.

in the case of moonlight i guess that is about making a app that can automate the process or adding a plugin or something like that monodevelop for the same effect. but given that pretty much anyone can easily reproduce the moonlight desklets. it is a very viable idea to automate it somehow.

the idea i had is also the opposite. a way to analyze a .net/wpf app and that it could suggest how to replace the wpf elements with moonlight and gtk# "equivalent" elements. that could be something for the future. windows 7 will have a lot of .net/wpf apps. visual studio and expression 3 will be 100% .net/wpf apps from what i understand. office 14 will use some of it too and office 15 could also be 100% .net/wpf. so even if my suggestion might be too out there now. at least it is a interesting concept or so i think so.

Re: Mono's Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:11:59 -0000

Totally unrelated Migue. but i find weird that the last 3 times i visited your blog it triggered the Data Execution prevention mode in IE8?... weird, just wondering

Re: Mono's Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:16:59 -0000

i see what happened.. nevermind.

Re: Moonlight brings Playboy archives to Linux - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:40:49 -0000

hahaha...i was a little surprised, you know,i thought you would be having a session in MIx09. sad to see it was not the case, you know?. (see what i did there?)

Re: Moonlight brings Playboy archives to Linux - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:37:51 -0000

weird, did i not had posted a comment here and in a previous post?.

Re: Moonlight brings Playboy archives to Linux - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:11:19 -0000

Thank god. i thought you suddenly hated me :'( because of thelittle pun in my first comment here at you expense.

Re: Moonlight 1.9 and Ogg - Miguel de Icaza

Avatar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:18:35 -0000

I guess that this means Moonlight 2.0 RTW for PDC and Moonlight 3.0 beta for MIX10 is quite possible. i have tested it on the windows side (XP, Vista, 7) and it works. i had to download a file vorbis first because since i didn't had any, but it works.

Re: 15 People Who Rock On Rejaw

Avatar — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:17:12 -0000

surprised to see myself on the list. thanks.

Re: XboxFriendsWatch Gamercard v2 has arrived! | Adam Kinney, Continuum Explorer

Avatar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:07:59 -0000

You plan to Update the Windows Gadget too or it is already updated?

Re: 5 Social Media Trends that Need to Die

Avatar — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:23:34 -0000

Oh..i get it. you made a ironic post by using many flaming and linkbaiting techniques play along in what may look like a just a rant.

there are many problems with your opinions. more in the part with the "platform killers".

Rejaw is nothing alike to twitter but to pownce.

Plurk is actually already third place in social messaging just behind friendfeed and it don`t even has an API. so i guess it may be around for a while.

Scribefire is the first of its kind in terms of blogging software and it is #1 in the mac and linux since it is integrated to firefox. it is #2 in windows because it is pretty much impossible for it to compete with the power Windows Live Writer. but other than that being #1 in two OS platforms and #2 in the main OS platform is quite an acomplishment.

so yeah. your logic is quite bogus.

Re: Interview With Ann Bernard

Avatar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:26:44 -0000

Good interview nick, glad to see a interview with Ann. :)

Re: MySpace Platform Catching Up to Facebook

Avatar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:12:20 -0000

I always thought that MySpace was able to stand on is own against Facebook and i sustain it. just look at their iPhone apps.

this is also a sign that OpenSocial may have a bright future afterall. just looking what is happening at hi5. then you also have to look at the Google Gadget strategy (that as you know follow closely) and see how those are going to integrate into Orkut and are changing everything in how iGoogle works.

interesting times.

Re: Bloggers Running Out of Things to Say Take a Vacation

Avatar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:03:29 -0000

that is the good thing about the niche i cover. news or post material now never runs out. when i started at Widgets Lab a year ago, i had to hunt down widget news or things to post. now there is a never ending amount of the stuff..

so depends on the niche.

Re: Will You Quit Your Job for Facebook?

Avatar — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:13:06 -0000

Woah, woah... the only way you can be of Gen y is if you are less than 27 (1980 and forward)... otherwise you are Gen X like me..

Re: Spreading Funkyness» Blog Archive » Posty - Beta2

Avatar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:35:33 -0000

it is taking form Cesare, looking forward to give feedback on this, i have just installed it.

Re: 2007/12/01/microsoft-acquires-photo-sharing-site-webfives/

Avatar — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:51:40 -0000

what if i told you that the live photo spaces API according to volume would fall into the fifth place of photos managed in the web?

they bought this because it was from a prior respected MS engineer so, who better to integrate it easily to the live services?

Re: 2008/02/21/windows-live-skydrive/

Avatar — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:00:47 -0000

i think that if compared with gmail, then it must be noted that users of hotmwail can easily be users SkyDrive and instantly have not 5gb but 10gb or the other way around.

5 of mail and 5 for files for free.

that would then be 3.6 gbs more than gmail if we use than angle.

But how people can compare the two of them as if Hotmail didnÂ´t existed is beyond me

Re: 2008/02/28/podcast-whygosolo/

Avatar — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:40:27 -0000

Go Ann Go!

Re: 2008/03/03/nokia-microsoft-silverlight-mobile-symbian/

Avatar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:48:11 -0000

"This is an important development for Silverlight which hasnâ€™t really caught on the way Microsoft intended. "

according only to you i guess..

Re: 2008/04/04/grandeffect/

Avatar — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:38:10 -0000

Sarah also blogs for Microsoft at On10.net and she is good at it.

Re: 2008/07/13/software-development-cycles/

Avatar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:43:46 -0000

if i recall correctly Microsoft did popularized the idea of Betas and made it a very artful exercise that continues to this day as a MS connect.

The most famous company i remember bringing beta in to the web was of course Google. but funny enough the first to popularize Alpha were they guys at mozilla with Firefox.

Then you also forgot how Microsoft now handles middle term on the stage from Alpha to Beta that is now used as Technical Preview.

Live Mesh is a Technical preview because its form can change at any minute but is in no way a alpha because it is too advanced in development to be an alpha and neither a beta because the form and look it will have is not fully decided and cannot be yet promised. you also forgot a step from beta to gold: Releace candidate.

Re: 2008/07/13/software-development-cycles/

Avatar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:47:53 -0000

Release, not releace.

Release Candidate is for a now finished product in a form factor that needs to be previewed in order to be sure of going gold but that beyond certain touches and tweak will be exactly the same when it goes gold.

So, i think those are the most interesting terms that the web 2.0 brought into the mainstream

Re: 2008/07/13/software-development-cycles/

Avatar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:51:21 -0000

damn. the chart didn`t loaded first.. ok so you only forgot technical preview.

Re: 2008/08/09/silverlight-olympics/

Avatar — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:40:59 -0000

That is nbc fault. there is nothing that can be done in flex/flash that cannot be done in silverlight 2.0

Re: 2008/08/09/silverlight-olympics/

Avatar — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:38:13 -0000

"multithreaded responsive app in Flex/Flash then"

oops, I posted the wrong reply. Sorry. Got too many tabs open and lost the track."

heh. was about to laugh until you corrected shortly. :D

Re: 2008/08/09/silverlight-olympics/

Avatar — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:09:56 -0000

partly true, partly not true. i have done many tests in several video sites. from the very same file, a file with good quality and so have done others. the worst output has always been youtube. i mean, really. give it a try. upload a file to soapbox and then upload the same file to youtube and see which one is better.

that is because of youtube. that is why they got their "see in high quality" option for when a video gets popular or active enough. that turns out to be a "see how it should have been converted like" option.

Re: 2008/09/01/google-chrome/

Avatar — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:20:55 -0000

Really?.um. now the whole thing of you being the "list guy" makes perfect sense. and how hodson dares to knock on Scott McCloud. my kudos to Google on that part. they went with the Alan Moore of academic comics.

Re: 2008/09/01/google-chrome/

Avatar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:22:57 -0000

i also used to work at a comic book store, and owned one until a car crashed inside the store.

so....yeah. it takes one to know one.

Re: 2008/09/04/microsoft-office-live-one-million-users/

Avatar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:57:13 -0000

I guess you are not familiar on how market laws and competition laws work on paper and out of paper. those are mainly the reason why most bloggers are able to give flack to microsoft. given MS position as number one leader when somehow microsoft underdelivers. they usually cannot enter into a market if the competition is too small. they need to wait for the rule of 3 to apply. 3 market leaders in a market of many other small competitors competing. once that happens. it is OK to enter into that market. this is the reason Microsoft invests so much in research and development. they need to create new markets that are vertical to the established markets and also be ready for opportunities in others already established markets. just like they did with xbox live, surface, media center, mediaroom, embed tv and many many more examples. it is not that Microsoft cannot get first into something or is unable to outpace competition. the thing is that they are most bounded by law to wait their turn to play. otherwise you would see competition, monopoly practices claims, unfair advantage,etc,etc lawsuits flying at a rate way way way higher than it is now. this is not something known because it is also not ok for microsoft to say anything about them. it is a fascinating theme. just not very commented on properly.

Re: 2008/09/04/microsoft-office-live-one-million-users/

Avatar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:00:01 -0000

in the specific race of digital documents and online office. if you note. they waited until 3 strong competitors formed to enter into the market for consumers. once there were 3 strong enough competitors in Google, Zoho and Adobe. Microsoft quickly made its move. this applies to most things.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

Avatar — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:41:50 -0000

you got to be kidding me. you are comparing RIA web tech like Silverlight 2.0 and of course FLEX 3.0 and JavaFX with Javascript!!??.

i don`t even feel compelled to answer this. i have talked to a javascript guy and he told me that while it is interesting. it is impossible to have as fast development on javascript and have as powerful apps compared to silverlight, flex or javafx.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

Avatar — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:34:21 -0000

sure. i never said it was not possible. but it will not be just JS. it needs to be a combination of HTML 5, CSS 3, JS 4.0 and more to archive it. but even then, will it be as powerful and the development will be as fast?. that is the question. and the answer right now is NO. people are getting too ahead of things have not even happened yet as if they were already happening.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

Avatar — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:19:37 -0000

i was for a moment thinking on ES. but that is dead. yeah. it was JS 2. i think the most interesting thing in js right now is that Objective-j stuff. like the one used in 280slides or what sproutcore is doing. but it seriously depends on what kind of app you are doing.what i meant is that it would not be just JS. it would a mix of things working with JS.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

Avatar — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:46:56 -0000

Flex and Silverlight are needed and here to stay because they are what is going to represent Adobe and Microsoft into the future. if Acrobat.com and Live Mesh is any indication already. they got superior development tools. just for silverlight you have visual studio, expression studio and even popfly if you want to do something quick and more basic. Adobe is going to add thermo and something for AIR that right now goes with the rumored name "AIRbase".
that is when we came to development times. the guy i asked said that RIGHT NOW, it was impossible to have development times as fast as you could do with flex or silverlight. not that it was impossible to develop something impressive. maybe your are right and he is not that good. but then what quality of JS developer you need for the stuff to be as good and be developed as fast as something a run of the mill flex or silverlight developer can churn without much effort?. then there is the bottom line: Adobe is not going to ditch flash,flex or AIR and microsoft will not ditch Silverlight. therefore they would do well.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

Avatar — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:53:54 -0000

finally. on the post in question here. there is a very glaring omission on part of Silverlight because it is not meant as just a browser plugin. it will jump to the desktop as Flex did with AIR ad it is already out on final testing for mobiles in general, not just WM. i think those are reasons alone in the short term why silverlight will be able to thrive as a competitor to Adobe.

Re: 2008/09/11/jerry-seinfeld-bill-gates/

Avatar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:37:06 -0000

bravo Mark, we finally agree on something. :P

Re: 2008/09/18/joost-launched-web-version/

Avatar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:00:40 -0000

ok Adam. your title rocked. and i do think that Joost may be remembered as the first true failure from the guys that brought up kazza, WMC codec pack (well. more like the facilitators) and of course skype. lets forget about hulu. they are competing with things like dnastream, babegum and to a certain degree Adobe Media Player, Miro, livestation and soon enough Odeo Player (based on fireant 2.0). they got so much competition on their level alone that they have all odds against them.

Then there is also the thing that they have taken in 54 million in funding without showing any results...

Re: 2008/09/19/microsoft-should-never-have-listened-to-tech-bloggers/

Avatar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:53:12 -0000

if you check the Windows website. you can see the 4 parts of the campaign: i`m a PC, Gates and Seinfeld, Windows vs Walls and The Possibilities.

all these four are part of the campaign. there is a third commercial already out of pre-production and ready to play with Gates and Seinfeld and one already in pre production. people are getting ahead of themselves. unless we have a full month without a new Gates and Seinfeld Ad. how can anyone dare to say they have been dropped if Microsoft and CP+B are stating otherwise right now?????

Re: 2008/09/26/us-financial-crisis/

Avatar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:30:35 -0000

yeah. drop him off the will. that is a nice life lesson. :D

Re: 2008/10/13/web-jobs/

Avatar — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:05:54 -0000

Woah. 3 posts from you pete?. in a ROW?. that means you are back or just a "happening"?

Re: 2008/10/13/we-didnt-start-the-fire/

Avatar — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:35:16 -0000

yeah. the whole cyprus thing was just epic bad timing. this of course is part of the whole overall problem on wall street. i wish there was a video of the mani-pedi spa treatment of those from AIG while the bailout.

I mean. i am in Mexico city. i don`t have any tech stock or anythinglike that but the effect resulted in me losing a lot all thanks to a value decreasing, credit rate jumps, and the BMV (Mexico WallStreet) taking a dive.

i hope things get better. but maybe i should add more job on the side to entertain my mind. are you hiring Pete?

:P

Re: 2008/10/29/windows-7-netbook/

Avatar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:14:00 -0000

Stan, Stan. so you are now like to do this kind of inflammatory blog posts?. i thought you worked for cashmore not for nick denton. or maybe it is your impression of John Dvorak in a bad day. lets move on the fact that you don`t research enough yours posts. even if they are opinion pieces.

If you had seen Day 2 Keynote. you would have seen Steve Sinofsky saying that Windows 7 can run in netbooks starting on 1ghz cpu and 1gb ram. if you had seen some of the boot up videos of Windows 7 M3 build you would have seen that it boots in half the time Vista does. if you did more research often you would also know that Asus, the leading company on netbooks stated that they will ship the later models of the Eee pc with Windows 7 starting in the second half of 2009. among other many things i could point out. then there is also the myth that netbooks cannot run vista. this is of course not true and it was explained by sinofsky. only the first batch of netbooks were unable to run it because:

1.-They started shipping with 512mb of ram
2.-They started shipping with SSD of 4gb of space
3.-The processor was less that 1ghz of power

I am sorry but it is ridiculous to expect Vista to be able to run on that. in fact. it was not a mistake that they choose xandros to run in it. at that time even a Ubuntu (Full Install) would have got crammed without the chance for it to grow much and you would not have run it with special effects either...

Then there was the fact that people has a very hard time when it comes to change. specially in terms of software. i even made a post on that given the debacle of the new iGoogle and the still ridiculous debacle of people that say that the old facebook was better...

UAC was indeed the hardest part of change thanks to the incompatibility of software and drivers and the whole vista capable stickergate fiasco thanks to Intel and other companies. so it was not just Microsoft doing. SP1 came and fixed pretty much at least 80% of the issues. 90% if you are using 64 bits.

The part i cringe when i get to read it is that claim that Vista took 6 years to develop. it didn`t. it was developed in a little more than 2 years and a half. Longhorn is not Vista. Longhorn was in development for 2 years before it was ditched given it proved to be unstable. Longhorn was based directly above XP. Vista was based directly of Win Server 2003. i could go further on explaining that but that is more than enough information. so the correct line would be "It took Microsoft X years to serve Vista, a OS that took 2 and a half years to develop". and in this case. everything seen in the keynote of today will deliver since it was LIVE CODE. it was not a mockup or a adjusted demo (like the ones apple does) and because Steve Sinofsky is the guy behind this. the same guy that delivered Office 2007 full range of Suites.

Re: 2008/10/29/windows-7-netbook/

Avatar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:18:17 -0000

oh. and i personally have installed lots of vista starter in the latest Eee PC`s . (Legal OEM i Swear!) so. the vista - netbook comment is not overheard knowledge.

Re: 2008/10/29/windows-7-netbook/

Avatar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:54:02 -0000

It is ridiculous because of the footprint of the install. as i pointed out in my reply. even a full install of ubuntu would be crammed into 4gbs. i am not saying the regular install. but a full one. there are 1-2 gbs of difference on them. it was ridiculous because a lot of the tech that allows to Windows 7 WDM cut memory to half and scale didn`t existed and because of the whole troubles that were not only microsoft fault or microsoft fault back when vista launched. for starters. the concept of Netbooks was still not out either. The development time and details IS RELEVANT because you cannot compare what had to be done with vista with what has done with windows 7 or what Ubuntu does or what apple does since both use a incremental release approach that was thought YEARS in advance and that employs an entirely different process of doing things. Windows 7 roadmap started even before Vista was released and the process was thought out from half the development of vista to vista release. the development then was fully started as Vista was in RC. i know this don`t matters to the end user. but i then wonder why no one bats a eyelash with OS X that took up to TIger to get actually any good because when OS X was released and for the first release was quite a disaster and with Ubuntu that took up to Hardy Heron to be usable because Warty Warhog was close to being a bad practical joke in terms of their claims. oh right. because their are only 1/11 of Windows Marketshare and because they got entirely different minority targets that are easier to archive. and neither of those got government, legal and corporative restrictions in terms of development. so how can they be comparable?. they are not.

On the other hand. even with your extreme bias and research lazyness. you still not as bad as most bloggers in Gizmodo and Engadget. yes. that is a compliment. i mean. i still take time to read your posts and reply to you. ;)

Re: 2008/11/03/yahoo-live-shutting-down/

Avatar — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:00:11 -0000

The problem was that they didn`t anticipated how expensive the project would be and that Flex was not the right way to do it. i remember getting into a yahoo live channel packed with people and seeing all the resources of the PC getting eaten up completely to a point where i had to kill the browser in order to left the yahoo live room.

Re: 2008/11/02/tech-killers/

Avatar — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:03:50 -0000

errr. plurk is already #3 in social messaging just behind frienfeed... so it is doing very well. on identi.ca. yeah you are right on that one

Re: 2008/11/03/yahoo-live-shutting-down/

Avatar — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:44:02 -0000

Yes. Paltalk express is a perfect example of what yahoo live tried to do. but unlike yahoo. paltlak dev team knew that Flex alone would not cut it. that is why Paltalk Express uses a Flex/java implementation. so i think the problem was the Flex only backend. more because back when Yahoo Live got out. Flash 10 was not out. that alone would have meant 20% better performance.

Re: 2008/11/06/yahoo-microsoft-buy-acquisition/

Avatar — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:22:05 -0000

I remember saying all the way back when Microsoft bid for yahoo that if yahoo resisted be bought they would crumble and that the effect of they not getting bought would send them to a price lower than before the microsoft bid...

Looks who was right again. poor yahoo.

now i really would not buy yahoo if i were microsoft. i would buy Ask and AOL. buying both would cost less than 10 billion and it would add a 8% of search marketshare and would pump up Ad Center with everything AOL and Ask got. i think that would be a better idea right now.

Re: 2008/12/20/plentyoffish/

Avatar — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:09:07 -0000

Congrats to Markus. no wonder he is a Asp.Net Legend.... i bet many still wonder how he managed to develop plentyoffish and make it so stable and scalable. it is shocking.

Re: 2008/12/27/blogo/

Avatar — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:06:59 -0000

This is paid software?. REALLY?.

tsk....i guess that having Windows Live Writer has Windows users too pampered. this don`t holds a candle to it obviously. but i actually think zoundry raven or scribefire are better choices for the mac and linux since it is free and looks to have more features than Blogo.

oh well.

Re: 2008/12/27/blogo/

Avatar — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:10:32 -0000

ops. i guess scribefire is actually the only good free choice for mac and linux. just saw Zoundry ended up being windows only in the end

Re: 2009/01/16/mashable-spanish-edition/

Avatar — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:06 -0000

I just took a look at it and i can testify that it is well translated and they are fortunately using a International Spanish.

Well done Pete and Congratulations.

Re: Hanging out with a fast company (emphasis on fast)

Avatar — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:02:09 -0000

well, even Tony Stark has one Tesla Roadster. so if it is good for Tony stark. then it is good for me.

Re: Hanging out with a fast company (emphasis on fast)

Avatar — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:04:07 -0000

@Aido:

More like: TOO MUCH TORQUE actually, that fact is gonna cost them 10-30 million more, because they are developing their Third transmission i think.

it has so much torque it destroys the transmission.

Re: Microsoft and Nokia get together on Silverlight

Avatar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:59:02 -0000

Not surprised because i knew a little about what is going on, and people seem to forget that nokia was also the one to get a mobile live suite in a phone even before WM had it.

Nokia and Microsoft working together for initiatives is nothing rare now.

along money Microsoft wants to convince Nokia to do a High End WM device just like all the other big phone companies by offering Silverlight, full exchange support, a new mobile live suite and there are even rumors of a post of the latest mobile office (6.1) to nokia.

silverlight would be the third thing that materializes from these four in one form or another, so there is only one to go and nokia pushing it into a broader scope.

Silverlight in the iphone?, yes i would say it should happen this year too.

For those that still doubt about Silverlight getting adoption, i must remind you that the Olympics advanced online content will be exclusive to Silverlight and that this Olympics will be the most watched online even in all history up till now?

Re: Microsoft and Nokia get together on Silverlight

Avatar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:01:59 -0000

@Daniel:

Silverlight runs in linux via MONO and it will also run in the next mobile linux. so there you go.

Re: Microsoft hits multiple Internet home runs

Avatar — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:50:20 -0000

Chris:

The entertainment devices division (xbox,zune) has been profitable now for 3 months. they also now have ways for ingame,mobile and embedded advertising.

so i think that advertising will do good

Re: Microsoft hits multiple Internet home runs

Avatar — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:52:06 -0000

@Robert:

yeah it is crazy, i am over 7hrs of info on mix08 in counting video and blogs.

Re: Era of blogger’s control is over

Avatar — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:06:58 -0000

There is solution to the problem fortunately and i see that solution as the future of participation. lets see if that solution does materializes this year, or until next year.

Re: “Sky isn’t falling” blogger says

Avatar — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:55:46 -0000

I will side with Robert in this one. I live in Mexico City. as far off as you can be from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. The BMV (Mexico WallStreet) took a huge dive because of the ripples started in USA.

This week i just happened to lost 37% of all my money. and credit rates and supplies went up adding a extra overall 15% inflation over cost of life.

I happen to have friends all over the world. i have a friend in iceland that told me he pretty much lost most of what he has and is now in debt. a friend in Tokyo who lost around the same percentage of what i lost. even if the quantities are different of course.

The effects on this are on a GLOBAL scale. it was also the WORST WEEK EVER for me and i don`t own Tech Stock or live in the USA.

So it is not just one Storm. but MANY storms and they have been unleashed upon all the world. Fortunately. Mexico had 90 billion dlls in Federal Reserves and have put a 50 billion dlls plan for National Reinvesting of this money. so i hope we will do well here in Mexico to weather the storm USA has caused. so if that is not a good example on how this affects overall economy and consume. then i don`t know what would be.

This would be easily confirmed if anyone bothered to see what people in other countries lost too because of this horrible week. so it is not just a USA thing anymore.

Re: Win a HP HDX Dragon 20inch notebook; name your top five digital lifestyle products and services

Avatar — Sun, 18 May 2008 07:10:09 -0000

1.-xbox360 (game console, media extender, online gaming)
2.-Zune 80 (DMP,Desktop software, Zune Social)
3.-Live Mesh (webtop, file sync, remote desktop, file storage,file player, silverlight apps)
4.-SonyEriccsion Xperia ( high end customized windows mobile 6.1, fully multi purpose)
5.-Windows Live Writer (high end desktop Blog Editor with plugins, my favorite way to blog for Blogger and Wordpress)

Re: I was Wrong About Laptop Hunter Sheila

Avatar — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:00:00 -0000

Heh, you got pwn good there Joe..glad she came here to comment. i also watched the film.

But Sheila Dvorak?. any relation with THE Dvorak we all know?.

Re: Microsoft’s New European Drama Unfolds

Avatar — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:20:21 -0000

I am amazed at how most Bloggers (not you of course, or mary jo for that matter) fail to understand that this measure is a brilliant one from Microsoft.

This is what they are ensuring to happen:

1.-Windows 7 Ships on time and nothing the EU does can prevent that, even if they do continue with the case. the reason is simple, Microsoft now got proof of cooperation, compliance and even what any lawyer could go and call "goodwill message" because now any other company can bid for inclusion of their browsers with Windows 7 with the OEM's.

There is no way the EU can deny those facts and they know it. another argumentative point microsoft gets is that the EU rulings in this case was to cause a leveled playfied for competitors. thing that is archived by opening bids to browser companies and to OEM since the OEM will obtain extra gain from those bids.

So, there is simple no way the EU can argue against it because now Microsoft will be able to count with OEM on the side saying" hey, EU, this is a great thing, now you are taking away profits and gain from us"

And even if they tried, they are not going to be able to archive to wreck the launch since it is only 2 months away from RTM and then the whole thing is no longer a Microsoft issue since the ball will be now with the OEM's

2.-Sideways benefits and stimulus for the bidding to happen since the only competitor would be Google and even Google would not be able outbid Microsoft if they now can bid to include not only IE8 but Windows Live Essentials (that include not only programs but important plugins and dependencies) and Windows Media Player. the other reason is that this issue will be resolve individually with each OEM and the proceedings while not entirely private will not be filed and reported in the moment but months after.

This is what they know it could happen but does not exceed the benefits from the main 2 points above:

1.- The EU goes crazy and decides to fine Microsoft out of the blue post Windows 7 release.

it will not matter. now Microsoft can even appeal bluntly as they now got weapons to the defend themselves against the EU, this will cause the legal process to go for awhile and even if they get fined and lose, they can do another appeal on the amount and even if they ultimately have to pay, the amount would be less that than the original EU goal and no less than a year from now would have passed.....

2.- in the case they lose against the EU, they can give out quite a battle against the EU and the former will have a hard time raising hell to microsoft for the next Windows release as Microsoft will be even more prepared for it.

But i find it hard to believe the EU will be able to win this and even if they do, it will not really matter in the end since this is about timing, window of opportunity and that if the EU follows with this they will be shown in a bad light and will receive a lot of pressure and negative publicity while doing so.

So my point is that if Microsoft Wins this is a double win, if they lose in this it will still be a win in the long run.

Re: Why Is There No iLife-Equivalent for Windows?

Avatar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:38:21 -0000

Microsoft is now getting very dedicated to Photo Tech again. before they had things like Photo Story and Digital Photo Suite. parts of both were pretty much used to create Photo Gallery. but photo gallery allows plugins and that makes it better than Google solutions as it was designed to be in the first place. i would have liked if they had continued with DPS

New stuff from that are is Photo Pro Tools. from MS Research there is also Photo Collage

Live Writer is indeed a GEM that also accept Plugins. i use 10 of them in WLW and its just marvelous. Blogo for the mac or Zoundry Raven are a very distant second place compared to WLW.

Windows Live Movie Maker final will be launched with Windows Live Wave 4 as i was supposed to be Project Monaco (garage band equivalent) but it think the later may not arrive until wave 5. i have no clue what other thing they will include with WLS wave 4.

Windows DVD Maker is the way it is because of two things that Microsoft will not risk on:

1.-AntiTrust
2.-Anti Competitive Behavior with competing Products and with Partners..

DVD Maker existence alone was damn struggle as i understand, it was meant to be more powerful actually but Microsoft backtracked because of the reasons above.

The very same happened with OneCare and even if it was a EXCELLENT product that had a low cost of 1 to 1.5 dollars per computer a month for a suite that did everything and that once set the user had to do nothing for a entire year. they were forced to back out of the market by force via its antitrust overseeing, OEMS and Security companies

there is Lifecam Show but you forgot that there is a complementing service called Live Video Messages.that is meant as complement of lifecam show

There is also the omission of DeepZoom Composser from Expression.

Live Mesh and Live Sync as already stated by other commenter.

And yes WLS IS MEANT to be the iLife and Google Desktop Services from Microsoft. but it has a project road path of 5 Waves in order to get to what it is supposed to be the finished Rooster of software offerings.

Re: Why Is There No iLife-Equivalent for Windows?

Avatar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:44:10 -0000

you think OutLook 2007 is bad?. umm..ok. have you tried out Office 2010?.

you also have the choice to use Windows Live Mail or outlook alternatives like Evolution or even Thunderbird or Zimbra Desktop.

Re: Is There Anybody Hohm?

Avatar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:23:03 -0000

Re: Apple Doesn’t Want Flash on iPhone

Avatar — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:07:15 -0000

still betting on this scenario. lets see which one comes first or if none of them get into the iphone in 2009.

But right now there is already replacement for this. a group of ex-adobe developer got a a way so you can develop in as3 and then the app gets translated to iphone native code.

the same goes for Mono/Moonlight project that got a way so you can develop the app in Silverlight/Moonlight and then convert it to the iphone native code.

Re: Is Microsoft Surface overpriced?

Avatar — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:44:00 -0000

i am a little disappointed with you Todd as i consider TechFlash one of the best researched and written blogs out there. if you had done your work this time out. you would know that yes they used $350 for the extra parts but you have to consider the price of the projects you need goes from $1000 to $2000 and that unless you consider your time not worth anything it took two weeks to make at no less than 50 hrs of work (for one person) that even if you put at minimum wage equals $250-$500. this will give you a minimum cost of $1500 to $2500 and that don't includes support, updates and there is no real cohesive development platform to work on..another worry is that MS Surface last i checked had a variable price. it could go from 10k to 15k according to what you ordered with it.

Re: Is Microsoft Surface overpriced?

Avatar — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:46:00 -0000

i also happen to know that the aiming price for the cheapest version of surface will be $5000. just ask around.

Re: Is Microsoft Surface overpriced?

Avatar — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:47:00 -0000

"projects" should read Projector.

Re: Is Microsoft Surface overpriced?

Avatar — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:49:00 -0000

indeed. 10k is if you buy a demo unit (slightly used). and no problem. my main problem is that the original article is flawed because it not address that costs of the items are variable and i also forgot the price of the computer. that is at least $500 more to a variable total of $2000 to $3000 including everything for a small sized MS Surface alternative.

i regret that my first comments in this blog i started reading from day one are full of criticism. :P

Re: Bill Gates and friends apply for electromagnetic engine patents

Avatar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:44:00 -0000

while this looks like a new thing. BillG has been into variations of this idea for over a decade. if i remember correctly it all started with the concepts of computer driven traffic and the monorail like thing that would go around redmond. the former is a idea being developed by MS Automotive and the latter cannot be done until Microsoft owns pretty much every bit of strategic land in redmond. they are pretty close to that.

Re: Bill Gates and friends apply for electromagnetic engine patents

Avatar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:44:00 -0000

Re: Touch-screen Zune all but certain, based on leaked device images

Avatar — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:25:00 -0000

it is all about numbers and markets. right now the Zune is anywhere from 3 to 4 million devices sold (no idea, just a napkin calculation) but there is is only full support in the usa and half support for Canada. if the zune was fully supported in lets say 10 countries since last year to now how the numbers would look?. they would be anywhere from 3 to 5 times higher and that would give us 12 to 20 million devices sold..now take those numbers again and project that 30 countries and you would have at least 20 million devices sold even in the most pessimistic outcome.. that is why it is a hollow argument to say that the zune is a failure. if the zune had been supported and sold in a international way for a year and it had captured less than 10 million device sales. then sure you can say that it was a failure

(not saying you are saying that Todd. just giving out some perspective)

a good thing on the HD moniker is that the zune 80 and zune 120 had very good video out so it is clear that if this is the official hardware it will continue with that.

More now that the Zune Team boss is the guy that leads Mediaroom.

Re: Free Giveaway: Office Ultimate 2007

Avatar — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:01:43 -0000

ok done!