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The Cell Phone Wars

Slate has an interesting comparison of Apple’s very closed model with the iPhone and Google’s very open model with Android: In the two months since the App Store's launch, Apple has rejected several programs for seemingly arbitrary reasons that it won't disclose. Developers havegrumbled about...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-26-2008
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
Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparison

Lifehacker offers up an excellent comparison of Microsoft Outlook (traditional desktop email application) and Gmail (cloud computing Web-based email service): Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-20-2008
Yahoo! Mail opens to new domains

Looks like you can grab @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com email addresses now from Yahoo! Mail, in addition to the standard @yahoo.com addresses: For many of you this may not be all that exciting (heck, if you are reading the Yahoo! Mail product blog it’s reasonable to assume you have a Yahoo! Mail account...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-19-2008
Apple MobileMe ... PC vs. Mac

Apple’s MobileMe isn’t just a warmed over PC- and iPhone-compatible version of .Mac. It’s important for two reasons: Apple is jumping headfirst into the cloud computing market. (And confounding pundits who predicted they’d partner with Google.) Apple is providing a consumer-friendly Exchange-like service...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-09-2008
MIX'08 Part 2: Wednesday's keynote

Here are a bunch of shots from today's keynote address. Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, Microsoft Developer Edition Guthrie Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, IE Hachamovitch Internet Explorer 8 Beta logo First public demonstration...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-05-2008
Here comes IE 8 Beta 1 (now available)

These links aren't live *yet* but will be soon... Install Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista ® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP ® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server ® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Downloads are...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-05-2008
MIX'08 Part 1

Hi guys, sorry for the lack of posts yesterday but my wireless connection at Harrah's is achingly bad and wouldn't stay up for more than a few minutes at a time. For the first time ever, perhaps, the EDGE connection on my iPhone was actually better than Wi-Fi. Anyway. I made it to Vegas without...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-05-2008

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