In the 'why didn't anyone else do this' department, Microsoft has made it possible for klutz types like myself to load batteries any way we like and our gadgets will still run.

And here I was thinking the Java / MS wars were over, and we had therefore lost an interesting rivalry. Until I saw this.

It gets NSFW at around 2:45, so careful!

A Windows Home Server Sneak Preview from the Windows Team Blog, with a voice over that sounds like the guy who coded it.

This latest adventure in PC repair started when Jill's cousin Tessa asked me to fix her Acer Aspire One Netbook, which was exhibiting virus infected behavior. A quick thorough scan in Safe Mode using PCCillin's web - based virus scan revealed the culprit.

I attended the Microsoft Bloggers VIP Mix last January 28, 2010 for Tech Exchange and my lifestyle blog Animetric's World. It's my first Microsoft event ever so I didn't have the faintest notion of what I was in for.

First of all, let me tell you I've never been excited about anything in a long time. 4 years ago, I made a post on my old blog re how I thought Google would eventually release their own OS. Obviously that didn't happen immediately, but I never gave up on the idea because it always made sense to me that they should. They certainly have the resources plus the following to get it going, and after 4 years they've developed even more web apps that a centralized app, such as an os, just to connect to these would make sense. And to me, that's what it's all about. Which surprises me that so much news about Google's OS has it pitted against Microsoft, which is beside the point if not completely outside it altogether.

2330 Classic Full Specs

2323 Classic Full Specs

You might as well be hiding under a rock if you haven't seen or heard about the new Windows commercials in the US. What gets me is, from CNet to YouTube to Engadget, people (the commenters, I mean) mostly can't wait to find every possible thing to diss about Microsoft. I can't help be wary about doing that myself because I really really wanna be as unbiased as possible. Following below are my attempts:

By way of Weblogtoolscollection, whose feed you need to be subscribed to if you run any number of Wordpress powered sites, I learned of MS' Web Platform and its offering of web apps that I assume would run on Windows Server, IIS and SQL Server (otherwise why would they mention these at all?).

I say 'assume' because neither Weblogtoolscollection or Thestandard.com, who both covered this earth shaking piece of news, confirmed whether these'd run on IIS, etc.