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Games for Windows Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary Like a Rockstar

A washed up, drugged out, over-the-hill rockstar. I’ve derided Microsoft’s “Games for Windows” initiative since I first heard about it ( see my review ) for a variety of reasons—the experience is nowhere near as seamless as that of Xbox Live, Microsoft originally charged for features other games have...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-22-2008
Picking a Microsoft document sync solution

Obviously this is fodder for a future article, but here's a mile-high view of Microsoft's three document sync solutions. Right now, the company makes three: Live Mesh (pre-beta "technical preview") Windows Live FolderShare Beta SyncToy 2.0 For starters, they're all free. The first...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-14-2008
There's a Velociraptor in my PC

A Western Digital VelociRaptor , that is. My desktop PC is almost two years old now. (I purchased it back in October 2006.) It's an HP Pavilion m7690y tower machine with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, so it's getting a bit long in the tooth, though it's been very reliable overall....

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-31-2008
2008 Olympics gadget for Windows Sidebar

Donavon West has created a cool Windows Sidebar gadget you might be interested in: Are you someone who follows the Olympics every hour of the day? Or maybe you just want to keep and eye on who’s leading in the medal count. Either way, the Beijing 2008 Medal Count Vista Sidebar gadget may be for...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-14-2008
Small but important Live Mesh update

Earlier this month, Microsoft made some changes to Live Mesh , including very low level support for P2P (peer to peer) folder sharing. The problem was (at the time) that you couldn’t configure this explicitly in the UI. So if you wanted to exclude the Live Desktop from a folder share (and not exceed...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-31-2008
MobileMe photo upload finally fixed on Windows

I check almost every single day to see whether it’s finally possible for Windows users to upload photos to MobileMe using a Web browser. It’s never worked right. But as of today, it actually works. To be a bit more clear, it “sort of worked” before in that it would work on only one supported browser...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-29-2008
FY09 Strategic Update

Only Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer could send such an important message out and give it a subject line that boring. But you'll want to read this one. I've highlighted some bits I feel are particularly interesting. From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:30 PM To: Microsoft–All Employees...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-25-2008
Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta

This could be huge. Those waiting for calendaring syncing between Hotmail/Windows Live and Microsoft Outlook can rejoice: It looks like it's finally happening (albeit in beta form): Brief Description With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-24-2008
You know MobileMe is a piece of junk when ... (Updated)

This one reads like a Jeff Foxworthy (of "you know you're a redneck when..." fame) joke. As in, you know MobileMe is a piece of @#$% when even Walter Mossberg, the world's most prominent support of Apple products, can't find anything good to say about it . I look back, smiling,...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-24-2008
Microsoft's online gamble could be smart bet

Now, here's something I can agree with wholeheartedly. In fact, I had exactly the same reaction: As I listened to financial analysts grumble about how Microsoft continues to pour its hard-earned software profits back into its online services effort, I couldn't help but think that maybe Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-18-2008

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