Aaron Parecki

#microsoft

• Molly White https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff

  back in my day we called this spyware

  #AI #privacy #Microsoft

  

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Tue, May 21, 2024 2:53pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, May 21, 2024 8:10pm -07:00) #ai #privacy #microsoft
• Back to windows after twenty years - Signal v. Noise (m.signalvnoise.com)

  Wed, Nov 13, 2019 6:31am -08:00 #laptop #apple #windows #microsoft
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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

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

  

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

  Portland, OR, USA

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

  Mon, Dec 24, 2012 8:58pm -08:00 #battery #cloud #gps #microsoft #power
• 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.

  Sun, Mar 25, 2012 8:53pm -07:00 #access #microsoft #startups