Tag: Microsoft

  • Stories don’t all have a start, middle and end

    I’ve been doing some work with digital storytelling, and as I’ve commented in the past, I think that any addition of “digital” to a term is largely a marketing or buzzword ploy. What the digital denotes isn’t something that is advanced as it used to, but rather some more democratized workflow. So there are some…

  • MS hardware for Mac

    I guess it’s not hard for even MS to see that the Mac is not dead – at least that is what the hardware side of it is thinking – as they have just released a Mac specific “Wireless Laser Desktop“.

  • Taking a Beating in BootCamp pt 2

    Just a follow up on the BootCamp thing. I think the only reason that most people would want to use BootCamp is if when they are switching to Mac, they can ditch their old machine and retain some of their software investment until they are able to get everything that they want on the Mac…

  • Taking a Beating in BootCamp

    Well it happened this weekend for one of the new Mac owners in the faculty. They had purchased a new Macbook Pro based on advice that the BootCamp Beta would be a problem free setup. But as it happens, that is not what happened, it turns out that the Windows OS crashed out several times…

  • Live Anywhere and Vista Extreme?

    According to what was said on the Engadget coverage, MS is thinking of Vista as the most game friendly operating system in history. To me this sounds like more of the same, games are the major movers of PC hardware and they have been for a long time. I don’t see too many companies upgrading…