Aaron Parecki

#microsoft

• Back to windows after twenty years - Signal v. Noise (m.signalvnoise.com)

  #laptop #apple #windows #microsoft

  Wed, Nov 13, 2019 6:31am -08:00
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  I just stumbled across this internal email exchange at Microsoft during the antitrust lawsuits and I am amazed at Bill Gates' detailed email complaining about the usability of trying to download Windows MovieMaker (spoiler: he can't figure it out) https://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangatesmoviemaker.pdf

  Portland, Oregon • 60°F

  39 likes 15 reposts 7 replies 5 mentions

  #windows #microsoft

  Tue, May 29, 2018 8:17pm -07:00
• What Really Happened with Vista – Hacker Noon (hackernoon.com)

  

  #vista #windows #microsoft

  Fri, Jun 2, 2017 10:39pm -07:00
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  OH: "The new Microsoft store in downtown Portland is like an old guy with a combover." @andrewlivesay

  Portland, OR, USA

  #overheard #OH #microsoft #portland

  Thu, Jan 17, 2013 8:11pm -08:00
• Microsoft's cloud-based GPS gets your location with a tiny fraction of the power (www.theverge.com)

  #battery #cloud #gps #microsoft #power

  Mon, Dec 24, 2012 8:58pm -08:00
• A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure (apenwarr.ca)

  We are running Access in Wine in X11 on Linux in an isolated user account on our server slice that revision controls your Access database in git, and we're displaying it using VNC in your web browser in flash. People can't possibly want that. But they need it. Which is better.

  #access #microsoft #startups

  Sun, Mar 25, 2012 8:53pm -07:00