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Tainted Vista Review #1: Game Development Called on Account of Vista
Friday, December 29th, 2006
Welcome to the first installment of The Tainted Vista Review, an ongoing series of blog entries documenting my experiences with Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.
For those of you who've been following the tech blogosphere for the past couple of days, the “Tainted” in the title will be an obvious reference: I was one of [...]
Blogger Don't Preach (I'm Keeping the Laptop)
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
Ferrarigate
If you've been following the technology blogs over the holidays, you've probably heard about Microsoft's latest “guerilla marketing” move to promote Windows Vista: give some bloggers a free Acer Ferrari 1000 or Acer Ferrari 5000 laptop pre-loaded with Windows Vista to try out. The bloggers were given the laptops and had the option of sending [...]
Satchell and Molyneux on MS Gaming Efforts
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Yesterday, I pointed to part one of a two-part interview with Chris Satchell, General Manager of Microsoft's Game Developer Group and revered game design guru Peter Molyneux, who's now working for Microsoft.
Today, I give you the link to part two of the article. In it, Satchell talks about Sony's missteps with making console development available [...]
Adobe's New "Periodic Table" Icons
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
The beta versions of Adobe's Illustrator CS3 or Photoshop CS3 have simplified icons — a gold square with the white letters “Ai” for Illustrator, and a blue square with the white letters “Ps” for Photoshop:
It was generally assumed that these were interim icons for the CS3 beta period, but that's not the case. As part [...]
New Game Dev Tool: XNA Game Studio Express
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Okay, now that I've made my crack about the statement of Chris Satchell, General Manager of Microsoft's Game Developer Group, let me get down to more serious posting.
Don't let my habit of Microsoft-bashing fool you: there's some neat tech coming out of Redmond that I'm interested in. I've been rather pleased with the XBox 360 [...]
MS Exec's Statement Confirms Long-Term Potential for Nintendo Wii
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
If ever there was an argument for buying Nintendo stock, this headline from gamesindustry.biz is it:
MS exec questions long term potential for Nintendo Wii
Consider their track record in any field where they've gone up against real competition.
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Installation Headaches: Just One of the Factors Behind the Move to Web Apps
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Nick Bradbury summarizes the installation experience (at the least the way it is for Windows users) in explaining why there's a move to web-based applications:
When you try to download something, you're presented with a security warning about how the software could potentially harm your computer. If you install the program despite this warning, your [...]
Thoughts on the Silicon Valley Asshole's Society
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
And all this time I'd thought that the Silicon Valley Asshole's Society was just a list of people in my head, but as Marc Canter wrote in a recent blog entry, such a thing existed, and he was one of the co-founders along with Stewart Alsop and Dave Winer. Better still, in a move that [...]
RSS is “The Next Big Thing” — and Has Been for the Past 3 Years
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
I got a sense of deja vu when I saw that the first item in Read/Write Web’s Predictions for 2007 was “RSS will go mainstream in a big way. A quick look back to their predictions for 2006 told me why: they predicted roughly the same thing — albeit more catiously — that RSS would [...]