Sticking it to Microsoft

October 26, 2005 – 12:14 am
This is every Windows user’s dream: WSYP: We Share Your Pain, the new customer feedback tool from Microsoft. This does seem to require Internet Explorer to view.
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What You Get is What Microsoft Sees

October 10, 2005 – 2:36 pm
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen heralds the next version of Microsoft Office for introducing “a new interaction paradigm called the results-oriented user interface.” As the demos show, the most obvious departure from the past is that menus and toolbars are all but wiped out. The focus is now on letting users specify the results they want, rather [...]
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Bill Gates Says to be Evil!

September 14, 2005 – 10:56 pm
Okay, not exactly. But it does make a great sound bite. From CNET.com’s interview with Bill Gates: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point? Gates: Well, we don’t know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with [...]
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