February 2008 - Posts

What do your Vista sidebar gadgets say about you?
28 February 08 05:18 PM | ianm | 9 Comments   

I seem to have developed a new obsession - seeing what sidebar gadgets people are using and trying to read something into the kind of person they're likely to be. A good place to exercise this obsession is at conferences or seminars where you can see Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista

Vote for Popfly...before April 21st
26 February 08 08:05 PM | ianm | 1 Comments   

Popfly is one of the smartest, coolest web-based product offerings I've seen in a while. And now it has been nominated for a CNET Webware 100 award . While it's terrific (and absolutely right) that Popfly has already achieved nomination status I would Read More...

Filed under: Popfly

SkyDrive out of beta, and increased to 5GB of space
21 February 08 08:17 PM | ianm | 1 Comments   

This is more great news - SkyDrive is now out of beta, and we've increased the amount of free storage space to 5GB. Read all about it here . Read More...

Filed under: Windows Live, SkyDrive

Microsoft acquires Caligari for Virtual Earth team
12 February 08 01:40 PM | ianm | 1 Comments   

Somehow I missed this announcement, but I was really excited to see that Microsoft has acquired Caligari . Caligari produce the much-respected TrueSpace 3D product that lines up against Maya, 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D and others. They also produce GameSpace Read More...

Filed under: Virtual Earth

Inside track on Windows Vista SP1
04 February 08 04:30 PM | ianm | 4 Comments   

You've probably heard that we announced today that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been released to manufacturing or RTMd. You may be wondering a) what's in it and b) when you can get it, and how. For answers to these questions along with a whole Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1