May 2nd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
Do you get that analogy? You will if you’ve been hanging out on the internet long enough. I’m recalling how hard it was to get a Gmail invite back when it first launched. That was the elite service to get into back in 2004. Luckily, I didn’t have to wait too long, allowing me […]
April 29th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
I started this post as a review of Spicebird. But my thoughts, here at the end of day, drifted. It happens. But if you bear with me, I actually make a point…I think:
FIREFOX
Recently, I’ve seen a couple of new Mozilla-based applications being discussed in the blogosphere, one of which is Spicebird. Now, to complement the […]
April 28th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
I said you had until Tuesday at midnight. I lied. I have plenty of comments now left by people looking for Mesh invites, so I may as well give them out now.
Deciding Who Won
This was a tough decision. I only have five invites, so who can I say is worthy of them? I wanted […]
April 26th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
Live Mesh is just about the hottest thing the tech world has seen in a long time. The product represents Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing, designed to blur the line between data stored on a computer and data stored in the cloud. This game-changing "software plus services" platform promises to synchronize devices, enable collaboration, […]
April 25th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
Oh yeah, I’m in! I’m so excited to be trying out Mesh’s tech preview I can hardly stand it. I *will* be playing with this all weekend, I’m sure. More to come…
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
There’s a lot of Live Mesh talk going on tonight, and I think I’ve just read just about every blog post about it so far. People are posting introductions, analysis, screenshots, videos, demos, opinions and so much more. But Live Mesh is really too big of a concept to get boiled down to one […]
April 8th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Apple, Microsoft, Music, Software
Oh, I needed this! I’ve got MP3s and MP4s and WMAs and god knows what else filling up gigs of storage at my house, thanks to a little sneakernet-ing not to mention ripping nearly my entire CD collection to my PC. And even though both Windows Media Player, iTunes, and my copy of Media […]
March 5th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
I just installed Internet Explorer 8. As I install and try it out, I’m uploading screenshots to my flickr set, "IE8." You can browse through the images in the slideshow below:
Notes About IE8
It Helps You Find Add-Ons: Something interesting about the install - when I get to the part about importing my settings from […]
March 5th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
I just finished watching the MIX08 keynote, and here’s a surprise: you can download IE8 Beta 1 RIGHT NOW:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm
March 5th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Microsoft
The MIX08 is live on the web now. Right now, Ray Ozzie is giving air time to data portability, cloud computing, seamless meshes of data using the web as the hub. These are being introduced as general concepts for the future of Microsoft.
Ozzie mentions Office Live Workspace
Utility computing in the Enterprise - […]
