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Rare Bigfoot sighting, er ah, Office crash

You know, there are certain staples in the world of Microsoft bashing. The publicly-located informational flat-screen display showing a blue screen. The jokes about what it would be like if Microsoft made cars. You know, the usual. But one thing you don’t see very often is Microsoft Office crashes. Well...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-11-2008
Red Ring of Halloween

LOL. I think someone just figured out the scariest possible jack-o-lantern: (From Boing Boing ) They should have done a spinning ball of death for Mac users too. :)

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-23-2008
4 Softies and a Pizza Guy - P-D-C 2008

LOL. It’s unclear whether this is meant to be a parody or an outright mockery, but it’s pretty funny : Think boy band. And software development. Naturally. :) Thanks Leonard D.

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-07-2008
Second Gates/Seinfeld commercial airs

So the first commercial garnered a lot of hateful pushback from the iCabal, but come on. This second one is just excellent. You have to be a special sort of curmudgeon not to see that. The nicest, high-res version can be found at Windows.com right now. There's also a postage-stamp version on You...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-12-2008
Microsoft's Seinfeld ad campaign kicks off

Here it is, folks! Direct link at YouTube

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-04-2008
Confirmed: Apple will try to SPOIL Microsoft 9/9 product launches

Can you believe the audacity of this company? Apple is actually going to try and take attention away from two Microsoft product launches, one for a blue laser mouse , and one for Windows Live Video Messages , by actually hosting a special product launch event on the EXACT SAME DAY!!! Wrapped in shrouds...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-02-2008
Taming Microsoft Word 2007’s File Associations and Document Windows, Part One

The other day, I sort of randomly posted about a number of the stupid little Windows Vista issues that bother me on a regular basis. It wasn't really that random. I had just recently had dinner with a couple of friends, also Windows enthusiasts, about some of this stuff and it was obviously in the...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-31-2008
Microsoft continues trying to 'spoil' Apple's iPod Day 2008(tm)!!!

In another stunning example of Microsoft's "shrouds of doubt and uncertainty," the company is apparently going to launch yet another product--Windows Live Video Messages--on the exact same day that Apple has "alluded" that it might launch new iPods. (Even though "Apple hasn't...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-28-2008
Say goodbye to laser ... and, for Mac fanatics, to sanity

LOL. Here's a beautiful example of the Apple fanboy world seeing everything through Apple-colored lenses. Seriously, you people are just embarrassing yourselves now. Yesterday, Microsoft Hardware--the tiny portion of Microsoft that makes mice, keyboards, and other PC hardware peripherals (but not...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-27-2008
3-Alarm Fire Burns At Apple Cupertino Campus

CBS News : Fire investigators are trying to determine what caused a three-alarm fire Tuesday night at the Apple Inc. headquarters in Cupertino, but preliminary information suggests it was accidental, a fire captain said. I'd look for an Apple TV sitting on a pile of paper. :) But seriously, I'm...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-13-2008

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