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Thoughts on A Complete Experience

September 23, 2008

I recently posted a quote from Steve Ballmer discussing a key difference between Apple and Microsoft, which I titled A Complete Experience. Having spent a bit more time thinking about it, I thought I would capture some of those thoughts here. This is basically a brain-dump, so it is by no means comprehensive, or for [...]

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A Complete Experience

September 16, 2008

In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
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Burning Chrome

September 2, 2008

Google plans to release a new browser soon, based on Webkit, but with a new JavaScript engine, which is expected to be significantly faster than most browsers and will be sandboxed to ensure that a crash in one tab doesn’t take out the rest of the browser.
In addition to the blog post, they’ve created [...]

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Print to PDF on Windows Without Acrobat

January 15, 2008

I recently needed to produce a PDF on my XP box at work, but as I didn’t have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed I had to do some digging. Luckily it didn’t take too long to find a convenient solution. Even better, I found an easy and free solution: doPDF. This utility installs itself as a [...]

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Virtual PC set free – further thoughts

July 13, 2006

After my initial post about Virtual PC and subsequent mailings to a couple of Web dev lists that I am subscribed to, I had a couple of interesting conversations on what this release means and why/if it is important. The question also came up as to whether or not the release is related to Apple’s [...]

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Virtual PC Set Free

July 12, 2006

Microsoft has set Virtual PC free. Makes me wonder if the folks in Redmond have taken notice of Apple’s free BootCamp or Parallel’s Desktop app. Use Virtual PC to “run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between virtual machines with the click of a button. Use virtual machines [...]

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Right-click in XP on MacBook Pro

May 31, 2006

Add right-click to XP on MacBook and MacBook Pro – This should make life much easier while testing code on XP in Bootcamp, and I would assume Parallels as well.

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Games on XP/MacTel

April 15, 2006

Apparently some games running on XP on the MacTel run insanely fast – too fast in fact. To fix the speed issue, one has to tell the system to only use one of the procesors for the game. Good to know.

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Boot Camp

April 5, 2006

The pieces are falling into place… My shift to the Mac will be complete, now that Apple has released Boot Camp, software that will allow users to run Windows XP on Intel based Macs. A tasty quote from the release:
“Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed [...]

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XP on MacTel is official

March 16, 2006

The fine folks at Engadget bring word that the installation of Windows XP on an Intel-powered Mac has been verified, generating $13,000 of prize money for the winner, narf2006. It sounds like extensive hacking was involved, so it is by no means ready for the public, but it should provide a starting point from which [...]

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