I know I have been slacking pretty hard on posts lately, but I am just getting around to catching up on my feeds. I have to hand it to my buddy Jody, he finds some great stuff out there. Here's another website you are gonna love. Just sit back and watch, this is absolutely hilarious...
Clearification: http://clearification.com/
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Ok...I know what you are saying...WTF is that logo doing on your site Frank? Ummm hmmmm. Boy, that's a great question. One for which my fellow Apple peeps need to make sure they are sitting down for the answer. Before I continue, please make sure you are not holding any hot objects or consuming liquids of any sort while you read the following few paragraphs. You have been warned.
As you can probably guess by now, there is a disturbance in the force. The dark side has been calling for about the last six months or so now and I have been making the rounds at the mother-ship. Not THAT mother-ship in Cupertino.....oh noooo. Yes, the OTHER mother-ship also known as the Redmond Giant. Yes people, it has happened. I have been officially assimilated by the Borg! For those of you less-than-geek types, I am talking about Microsoft.
I have been sitting on this for a week now, but I can officially release the news that I have accepted an offer at Microsoft as a User Experience Designer with the Windows Server Management Experience (WSMX) Group. Before you all have a heart attack and start throwing daggers and the pigmy's come running to hunt me down with axes, hear me out.
This is a GOOD thing. It was the best move for my family, and to be quite honest, one HELL of a career opportunity that anyone would be brain-dead not to accept. And if you are wondering if I have to move to Seattle, the answer is a resounding YES! Rather than re-hash what I have already gone into great detail about elsewhere, follow the link and read the first post on my other "new" blog on Windows Live Spaces (and I don't wanna hear any wise cracks about using Spaces, remember where I work now) ::: UX Design by Frank: http://uxdesign.spaces.live.com
I know this is a shocker to some of you, but you'll understand that things aren't always what they seem from the outside. You have to dig deep and peel back all the layers to reveal the truth about anything. I did my homework, I liked what I saw, I took the gig. It's really that simple. Now get on over to my other blog and get the full scoop...
That's right boys and girls. Virtual PC is no longer the only game in town for running Windows or Linux on your Mac. I have written about VMware in previous posts and what we have all been waiting for is about to arrive. VMware has announced a beta for their product on a Mac. This is HUGE news for the Apple community. Microsoft has not announced officially (that I am aware of) that they will be porting VPC to the Intel platform and that has a lot of people concerned to say the least. Even we Mac folk need to run Windows from time to time, and now more than ever, we are starting to see more options like Parallels and VMware step up to the table. I for one am excited about this and can't wait to check out VMware for the Mac. I am really hoping it runs Vista once it ships from Redmond. Don't miss out on the beta, go sign up ASAP!
Technorati Tags: Mac Tech Tips, OS X, Virtualization, Windows
Boy 'oh boy...all hell is breaking loose up in Redmond, and I bet these boys aren't doing the vista boogie now. If you haven't already seen the reports, Microsoft has announced yet another slip in it's launch date of Vista. You will now have to wait until at least early 2007 before getting a PC with Vista as the factory installed OS.
It seems that there are quite a few MSFT employees that are ticked off and not drinking the kool-aide. Check out the comments in this post..
[ via Mini Microsoft ]
It certainly sounded like Microsoft leadership committed to us, our customers, our partners, and our shareholders that Vista would be out in 2006.
Slip!
We should have asked for more details around the "or else" part of that commitment.
I was upset at missing the back-to-school market. Now we're missing the holiday sales market. All of those laptops and PCs are going to have XP on it. What percentage will upgrade to Vista? Well, I guess that's the little dream that I need to give up on. Vista's deployment is going to come from people buying CPUs with the OS pre-installed, not dancing down the CompUSA aisle as they clutch that boxed version of Vista to their loving chest. So not only did we miss last year's opportunity, we're missing this year's opportunity, too. With the convergence of high-tech media, this holiday season would have been an explosive nodal point to get Vista out for a compounded effect...
[ Full Story: Mini-Microsoft: Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now! ]
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