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Amazon launches On Demand video service

Amazon PR : Amazon.com today announced that customers can now instantly watch ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs with Amazon Video On Demand, Amazon's digital video service offering thousands of movies and television shows. Previously, customers could only download titles and watch...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-03-2008
Respected consumer advocacy group recommends against using Safari

And heck, that’s just common sense. I’ve recommended that all along, for Windows users. But what’s interesting about the Consumer Reports recommendation is that it’s aimed specifically at Mac users: Mac users should scrap Apple's Safari and replace it with a browser that offers antiphishing protection...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-06-2008
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
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
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
The MobileMe disaster continues: Now it's not 'Exchange for the rest of us' anymore

I just received the following note that Apple sent to its sales force. In it, the company says that it will no longer use the "Exchange for the rest of us" slogan because MobileMe, unlike Exchange, does not really use push technology. This whole thing is unbelievable to me: MobileMe Messaging...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-17-2008
Windows Vista usage share surges 355 percent, leaves Mac OS X in the dust

PC World : Apple fans have made much of the fact that the newest figures from Net Applications show that Apple's share of the operating system market has jumped almost 32% in the past year. But they're ignoring a simple fact: Vista's market share during that same time leaped more than 355...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
More reasons to switch to Firefox?

I think Michael Horowitz is being a bit harsh (and I'm guessing that's his entire schtick in a nutshell), but Mozilla's Asa Dotzler summarizes this argument a bit more agreeably, in my opinion. First, the Horowitz bit : If you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using Firefox...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-07-2008
Internet Explorer 8 security features

I just posted an article about Internet Explorer 8 security features . This is based on a recent briefing I had, but as promised, the IE team has published a number of related blog posts that might be of interest: IE8 Security Part III – SmartScreen Filter For Internet Explorer 8, we’ve built upon the...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-02-2008
Microsoft announces enterprise features for Internet Explorer 8

Via email: Today, we are announcing a number of enterprise features that will be available in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). IE8 will include deployment and manageability improvements for IT administrators including the ability to: Add IE8 as part of IT’s Windows Vista image; Use Group Policy to control...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-11-2008

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