Entries Tagged ‘apple’

Windows 8 Metro Interface, The Wrong New Thing

Microsoft has been revealing more and more features about Windows 8, including the new Metro interface shown above. That is what the standard desktop interface is going to look like in Windows 8. You’ll be able to click a ‘Desktop’ link to interact with older legacy applications (i.e. anything developed for Windows 7 or earlier) […]

Google Docs Outage “Mea Culpa”

Google has made a blog post concerning the reasons for their Google Docs outage last week. In essence, a bug in their software was exposed when they added an enhancement, a bug that was only visible under heavier load than seen in the test environment. One of those “Wait, that didn’t happen in the simulator” […]

Flash on iOS, Adobe Throws in the Towel

Techcrunch reports that Adobe has changed their Flash Media Server to stream Flash based content to iOS devices by essentially removing the content from a Flash container and reformatting it on the fly to something palatable on iOS. Two quick comments. First, the opening quote from Techcrunch: Ardent iOS supporters have been clamoring for true […]

Google’s Cloud Evaporating

I’ve written before, elsewhere, about cloud computing as the latest trend (though that’s not to say it’s new, just that it is trending.. again). At the time I laid out pros and cons from the point of view of putting the entire computing experience into the cloud. But of course, that’s only one way to […]

Windows Phone 7 Will Not Steal (Much) From iOS

Techcrunch is reporting that Gardner and IDC predict a 20 percent market share for Windows Phone 7 by 2015. Said to be a conservative estimate, it appears to be based on several factors: HP dropping webOS, leaving potential developers to jump ship to another mobile platform Microsoft pushing new product in Europe Microsoft marketing to […]