This is response to Five Reasons why Windows 8 will be dead on arrival. I imagine that in 2016 more people will be running Windows 7 than Windows 8 but despite this fact I doubt that Windows 8 will be a failure, in fact I expect it to do well. It might not be perceived [...]

A lot of people have seen the Metro UI of Windows 8 and thought that it will be no good for mouse and keyboard interaction however there really is no need to spend any time in the Metro UI of Windows 8. To prove this to myself as much as anything I tried using Windows [...]

Then you’ll be wanting to download this new theme from FediaFedia. If you’ve already tried Windows 8 out then you’ll have noticed that there are some differences in the Aero on it when compared to Windows 7 and from what I can tell this theme will bring these differences to your Windows 7 install. I [...]

Earlier in the week I wrote an article about Microsoft’s consumer and business strategies, I ended up writing about how I think the Xbox is so successful because for Microsoft it acts like a business product and how Microsoft’s partners, not its efforts, are the biggest danger to the success of Windows Phone 7. I [...]

If you’re a regular reader of this site then you’ll know I am a huge fan of the Metro UI and today I find a great todo list manager which is very Metro-esque. The program is called Tasks.Show and was created for Microsoft by Pixel Lab and Sela. The app makes it very easy to [...]

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 [...]

Last night Microsoft held its CES keynote presented by Steve Ballmer, there were some interesting announcements and some disappointing omissions. You can watch the keynote and highlights at the Microsoft News Center. First off Ballmer spoke about the Xbox and announced that in the Spring an update will be released for the Xbox 360 that [...]

The rumour mill is firing on all cylinders this morning and by the looks of things 2011 will be the year of Windows. The latest rumour is from The Seattle Times and it believes that Microsoft will be bringing a new version of Windows to the consumer market this year, Windows TV. This will be [...]

Since the beginning of this year I have been writing a series of posts looking at how close Microsoft is to succeeding in its “3 screens and the cloud” strategy. Since Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and a few other products have now been released I thought I would update the numbers from March when I [...]

Yesterday saw the start of the Professional Developers Conference, for those that were unaware. It started at 9, Seattle time, with Steve Ballmer taking the stage for the keynote. First Ballmer spoke about the number of attendees at the event, despite only have 1000 attendees in Building 33 it was actually the biggest PDC Microsoft [...]