July 13, 2013

Are these the signs that Microsoft is struggling?

First, Microsoft has announced that to be more agile, lean and mean, there will be an across board restructuring of the company. "The end goal is to bring products to market faster and encourage users to adopt Microsoft technologies on a variety of devices." To me, this sounds like two things. One, Microsoft is in trouble. Two, layoffs are coming. You never go through a re-org or realignment and keep the same number of people as when you started. Additionally, as another sign of weakness, the Surface RT has turned in some weak sales numbers and now Microsoft has a surplus. What do you do with a product nobody wants? Put it on sale of course! Rumor has it the price will drop by $150. And just to throw it out there, I don’t think the new Xbox One is going to make as big a splash as the previous versions. Even though Microsoft backpedaled on all the foolish ideas […]

May 21, 2013

A week with Windows 8

Well, I gave it a fair chance, I’ve worked with Windows 8 for the entire week to see what kind of OS it really is and whether or not it could win me over. So far, Windows 8 fails to impress or inspire. It’s a completely underwhelming rehash of Windows 7 with one of the ugliest Interfaces I’ve ever seen. Right off the bat I didn’t like Windows 8. I like the Start bar and thought that was a good way to interact with installed apps. A desktop full of icons that you can’t seem to get to easily isn’t my idea of an upgrade. And quite frankly I’m sick of people telling me I need to press Windows-X in order to make things happen. If I’m not mistaken, this is Windows, the interaction is supposed to be with a mouse. But moving past that there are just too many thing I dislike about this new OS and I stick […]

May 14, 2013

Installing Flash Player for FireFox under Windows 8

Well this is a bit strange, I need to install Flash for Firefox, but Windows 8 seems to be against the idea. I go to the Adobe site, download the installer, run it, but get an error about the Metafile and then my download is actually deleted. I download the installer again, Run as Administrator, the installer starts, but it’s deleted again and I still don’t have Flash installed. If I go to IE10, Flash is playable. What the hell is going on here? I’ll just add this to the ever growing list of things I don’t like about Windows 8. But, there is a way to get around this – download the full Flash install. Instead of using the Stub Installer, I downloaded the Full Install and was able to get it to work. Go here – http://www.filehorse.com/download-flashplayer-firefox/ and click the Download button. This is the Flash Player 11.7.700.169 (Non-IE) Flash Player 11.7.700.169 (Non-IE). I don’t know why I […]

May 10, 2013

A forced upgrade to Windows 8

Because of an foreseen and ultimately catastrophic computer screw up I had to reimage my work machine and start over. To add to the misery of losing an entire day of work I realized I couldn’t reinstall back to Windows 7 and would have to use the new corporate standard of Windows 8. This did not make me happy. Like Windows 7, the install was quite quick (it took longer than normal because this was a custom build that also included Office 2013) and in short order the new OS was up and running. First off it presented me with a cartoon representation of Seattle and the Space Needle. Ok, now what? After starting at the screen waiting for it to do something, I realized this is the new logon screen. I thought it was still installing. Apparently the Ctrl-Alt-Delete that we’ve used since NT 3.1 isn’t there. Ok fine, a different way to log in so be it. So […]

December 28, 2012

Windows 8 Off to a Worse Start Than Vista

PC sales are down Tablet (iPad, Kindle and Galaxy Tab) sales are through the roof Windows 8 doesn’t have a compelling feature set to warrant an upgrade Lowest priced OS upgrade Microsoft has ever put out and it still struggles Windows 8 is in no way taking the PC world by storm. If these numbers are to be believed, the adoption rate for Windows 8 is anemic at best. Is this a slow burn or a true dud? According to data compiled by web analytics firm Net Applications, Windows 8’s online usage share is a hair under 1.6 percent of all Windows PCs through December 22. When Windows Vista launched in 2007, its online usage share of all Windows PCs was 2.2 percent through the same time period. Windows 8 Off to a Worse Start Than Vista

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