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Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

Would someone please buy Brad Smith a clue?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Microsoft's new bizarre revenue model?  Behave like a petulant four-year-old.  "He's touching me!  He's touching me!" Uh, guys?  We hate your stuff.  With a passion.  Why on earth would we steal it?

Sharepoint, how I hate thee

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Yesterday I spent several hours creating a SharePoint Datasheet page that I could have created in ten minutes in a Wiki or a CMS. As if this wasn't annoying enough, this morning I read how SharePoint is earning Microsoft a ton of money. How irritating.

Whoops! They did it again.

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Microsoft's latest foray into things that might possibly have a small chance of not sucking is their new MOSS offering - Sharepoint as a service. Now I know what you're thinking: has That Software Guy lost his mind? Actually using a low quality, buggy, insecure Microsoft service? Relax. ...

Microsoft Announces “Super Standards” Mode

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

How hellish that you should have to instruct the browser to behave (approximately) the way everyone has agreed it should. This reminds me of the story of the magic switch - except in this case, the switch would be labelled "broken" and "more broken." :(

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