Aug 31
Intel and Microsoft will hold an event next week to discuss collaboration on improvements to Windows 7. The event, on September 1 in San Francisco, will “share how the two companies collaborated on key enhancements during the development of Windows 7,” according to Intel. Steve Smith, vice president and director, Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group Operations, and Michael Angiulo, general manager of Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem at Microsoft, will talk at the event. Microsoft plans to launch Windows 7 on October 22.
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Aug 30
After months of headlines about the phenomenon known as Snow Leopard, it has hit the streets and reality has set in. It turns out that the updated Mac OS X is…..well, it’s simply an updated Mac OS X. After all of the hype in the media regarding the Snow Leopard frenzy, Friday’s official release seemed lacking. Not to say Snow Leopard is a dud. By all accounts it puts some zip into lagging Mac OS X systems, but it offers little else to impact the day-to-day experience of most Mac OS X users.
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Aug 27
Apparently Microsoft isn’t doing everything with Windows 7 differently from how it did Windows Vista. As was the case with Vista, Windows 7 will get its formal launch in the Big Apple. CEO Steve Ballmer will preside over the October 22 event, with the usual array of hardware partners showing off their latest wares.But that’s not the only Gotham event for Microsoft in October. The company is also doing a consumer open house at the Park Avenue Armory, led by Robbie Bach, on October 6. Microsoft plans to highlight everything from the Zune and new phones to hardware products like keyboards and mice.
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Aug 26
“Where’s the beef?” That’s the idiom that jumps to mind as I work my way through Galen Gruman’s “The 7 best features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.” I knew the features list would be lean — Apple has deliberately undersold Snow Leopard by pitching it as a relatively minor release — but please! Gruman’s article reads like a laundry list of borrowed features and derivative works. It’s as if someone at Apple grabbed a copy of the Windows 7 beta and simply Xeroxed the release notes.
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