Tech QQ

Since I have been working mostly with Java lately, I decided it was time to get back in touch with dear old MS technology.

I have an old laptop lying around, and to get some use from it I decided to install Windows 7 and use it as a tool for testing things out. Other than that I also get to take a look at Windows 7 and get aquainted with that. Since I still have Vista on my big PC, I figured it was a nice way to find out if Win 7 is my cup of tea and deserves to be installed on the big machine.

So far Windows 7 is looking very good, it's an old laptop so it's only got 512MB ram, but it still feeling quite ok to work on. I'm now installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta, so we'll see if it feels equally good after I start using that for developing aps.

I must admit I always have been a bit of a MS fanboy, atleast since I started coding on the first .NET beta in 2001. But just before I ended the workday, I saw something that kind of bothered me a bit.

This is the reason you keep developers locked up in cubicles away from the press

MS knows they fudged MS Mobile 6.5, and I think Ballmer is praying for Win 7 Mobile to be released as soon as possible...

Seems Ballmer isn't just happy sitting by the sideline regarding the Bing Google race.

According to some sources of Financial Times, Microsoft is offering to pay certain web publishers to "de-index" their sites from Google.

It seems like flinging sand in the sand box, but in the long run maybe this could lead to web content suddenly having a monetary value. For this generation with the "information wants to be free" creed, web publishers aren't making ends meet, and with paper copy sales dwindling, maybe this is a bright light in the tunnel for news papers.