Monthly Archives: March 2009

At the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft announced a new Xbox 360 development kit, specially crafted for developers with 1GB of memory (debugging and stuff), and a sleek, blue-tinted chrome with a black exterior that’s quite appealing. Here are some photos: … Continue reading →

Interesting concepts like BatSignal (like Aero Peek, but kinda cooler), windows managing, taskbar designs, thumbnails and whatnot that just didn’t make it to the current version of Windows 7. There’s said to be 400 design sketches. Links: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/03/23/windows-7-concepts-that-never-made-the-cut# http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/yochay/Designing-the-Windows-7-Taskbar/  http://winbeta.pl/sample3/windows7prototypy_1.htm

If you haven’t seen it by now, there has been a video floating around the web about Microsoft’s vision of the future, including a wide arrangement of vision types. Here’s the basic Future Vision Montage if you haven’t seen it: … Continue reading →

Ok, this is yet another quirk of the Windows Live system. Whenever I log into Windows Live Messenger, and a bunch of IM invites come up, I usually reject most of them (because they’re from strangers who I don’t really … Continue reading →

I noticed this in one of my inboxes today: I saw the “You’re subscribed to this mailing list.” box on a message from Tagged, and I chose to unsubscribe to it, because I’m not at all interested in joining yet … Continue reading →

The private messaging feature of Windows Live I find, is still too quirky. For instance, Windows Live communication settings acts very stupid. I’ve found that people send me private messages, but because their communication preferences are close, I can’t reply … Continue reading →

I managed to somehow get into the new Kumo-like thing on Live Search. I discovered that the new Kumo Search will kind of have a slightly modified way of displaying results. There will be ‘clusters’ of search groups, based on … Continue reading →

I don’t know any other website that sends so many frequent invitations to become friends with complete strangers, than Windows Live.   It seems that every time I log in to Messenger, there’s at least ONE (or many!) invitations from … Continue reading →