Over the past few Microsoft has updated the website’s homepage but I’m not a fan, its far too cluttered and confusing. The page might look to follow the Metro guidelines but Metro is always about being simple and removing all extra content from the design; this is something that the new homepage certainly doesn’t do. [...]

The problem today with web videos is they are quite static, there is no interaction between the content and the viewers. However a new Microsoft Research project, Digital Narratives has gone some way to addresses this. Upon first viewing it appears to just be an ordinary video however what you are actually looking at is [...]

I have been procrastinating a bit over the past couple of weeks and have created some new wallpapers. Please save them to your PC and make sure you credit me if you share them, thanks. There is a wallpaper category if you want any more wallpapers. I hope you like them.

The other day I shared with you my ideas for tweaks to the up coming Microsoft homepage, well today I have had more time to work on a Metro UI design for the site. I wanted to bring the Metro UI properly to the Microsoft page and not just a collection of rectangles and the [...]

As many of you know I live the “Microsoft Life” (the name of the site is a bit of a giveaway if you didn’t know) and I have no Apple products and use no Google services. Some people may frown on me for doing such but I can now, finally, show people the advantages to [...]

Earlier in the week I had a look at the new design for the Microsoft.com homepage that they are currently previewing. The process of previewing is for people to give their feedback on the proposed design. On first viewing I think the new design is too cluttered, there are too many columns but I like [...]

I know many of you, like me, are excited to hear what Microsoft has to announce at its keynote speech in about 14 hours and to show my excitement I thought I’d create a CES Twibbon for anyone to added to their Facebook and Twitter images if they too are excited. You can “support” CES [...]

This had me in stitches! There was also a second clip of The Microsoft Office at 11:04 on the most recent episode of The Impression Show with Culshaw and Stephenson.

Last year I created a Windows 7 theme pack for the festive season and I thought I would share it again this year. Despite having snow yesterday I was unable to get any better photos to add to the collection. However if you don’t like these pictures or want more festive wallpapers for your PC [...]

Back in January I wrote an article about what people were saying about their own “my Microsoft life” by taking a snapshot of tweets for a Twitter search of “my Microsoft life”. What I found was that in a list of 19 tweets there were 7 pro Microsoft tweets, 9 anti Microsoft and 3 tweets [...]