[...] Bill Gates’ image shoots itself in the foot July 12th, 2006 First David Letterman takes a shot at Bill Gates, then Microsoft takes a shot at themselves. [...]

[...] Page Summary: Copyright Reuters. Rest in peace Microsoft, I thing you are well beyond the point of no return. We are asking you to do this to help prevent comment spam. We moderate all comments and will publish everything that advances the post directly or with relevant tangential information.read more | digg story [...]

[...] It’s how history repeats itself Posted by backtick Filed in Binary Notes [...]

[...] Video: Vista’s "double the killer delete select all" Vista’s Voice Recognition gone really bad in a live demo in front of investors. Reuter’s report here. I sense a meme coming… Remember: "double the killer delete select all!" Keywords: funny, video, windows [...]

here’s my problems with Mac. they control all the hardware. I have a dell laptop, my newborn son threw up into it as I was having a video call with my mom.(Yes it was stupid of me to lean my son over my computer). I have goldcare on my laptop. Dell fixed and replaced everything. I talked to an apple sales rep a few days later about corporate purchases. He said, that if that had happened to an apple I was would SOL. I don’t doubt Mac is a more stable OS, they don’t have to account for a million varieties of hardware that the OS will run on. have you ever had service on your iPod? It’s dealing with Apple’s service that makes me not a fan of apple.

[...]     Microsoft bashers used a failed product demonstration Thursday at the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting as an easy excuse to mock the world’s largest software company.     But the response from within Microsoft was anything but that of a corporate monolith. First one developer, then another owned up to the problem in online postings on the company’s developers’ blog. They described in detail what Microsoft already had done to fix the issue.     Over the weekend, Rob Chambers, a member of Microsoft’s speech recognition team, posted a tentative explanation of what he thought might have gone wrong. He provided a more definitive technical answer Monday that pinned the problem on audio gain issue called “clipping.”     “Have you ever heard a car drive by that had the stereo blasting away, and the audio sounded absolutely horrible?” he writes. “Microphones and sound cards can have similar problems trying to convert the analog signal from the microphone element into a digital signal for use by software on the PC.”     Chambers said the glitch was well understood by the team. The demo had worked perfectly well in practice, but because the bug is intermittent, it only popped up during the main event.     “Rest assured that we have the issue under control here in Redmond, and when Vista ships later this year, this audio gain issue will be a thing of the past,” he said.     Larry Osterman, a 22-year Microsoft veteran who is part of the audio team owned up to being slow to detect the software bug when it first was detected about a month ago. “Mea Culpa,” he writes in a blog post entitled “Wait, that was my bug? Ouch!”  [...]

[...] At Micrsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday, Vista product manager Shanen Boettcher set out to show just how easy to use the speech recognition technology built into upcoming Windows Vista software will be. But something went very very wrong…read more | digg story [...]