Hardware Geeks

I for one think the new Ad campaign by Microsoft is a crappy one, and Microsoft having to explain the campaign just shows that people just don’t get it.

But at the same time, a lot of people are talking about the new Microsoft and Seinfeld ad. So even though the ad in my opinion sucked and in the opinion of many sucked I personally think it has done its job, because people are talking and as the saying goes “the worst publicity is no publicity”.

There has been a lot of hype about how Seinfeld will be promoting Microsoft, and in private conversations with people at Microsoft I have said, that unless the message has changed Seinfeld is the wrong guy to be promoting Windows. Because I personally think the audience Microsoft needs to reach out to are the kids who went to bed at 8PM back on May 14th 1998, and not the Seinfeld-aholics that staied up that night and threw huge parties.

Anyway watch the commercial and after you watch it I will tell you what I think. By the way this is one in many that will appear over time.

I won’t make a long post, just read my post about Microsoft wanting to steal your Music and change every instance of Microsoft to Yahoo.

I just think it is absurd that campaniles feel they have a right to stop issuing a key they sold us. They need to give credit to users to use at a different store.

When they decided to sell DRM’ed music they should of foreseen this. It isn’t my fault or other Yahoo Music Buyers fault that the partnered with Rhapsody. Don’t screw your users over Yahoo.

UPDATE: Yahoo is looking at ways to refund people for the DRM music they bought. They are looking to give you a DRM free version or just refund what ever you paid. MSN is also considering the same thing.

Has anyone bothered to look at the 3G coverage map for at&t? If you have you probably noticed that the 3G coverage area is rather small. In fact the 3G coverage area for at&t is so small, that unless you live in a Major City the chances of you benefiting from 3G is minimal.

So why has at&t and Apple been promoting the benefits across the country and telling people to get the new iPhone because it supports 3G, when for the majority of the US population there will be no added speed increase since the at&t network is mostly edge?

I am not ripping the iPhone here I personally would like one and think it’s a great phone, I just think that at&t and Apple need to be clear about the size of at&t’s 3G coverage area.

Back in April we told you about Microsoft wanting to steal our music, music we purchased from MSN music.

We I have come to find out from my buddy Jason Dunn, that Microsoft has nixed the August 31st deadline and MSN music owners can still transfer there music until atleast 2011.

While I am somewhat relived, this still does not address the issue, it is unfair and unethical for Microsoft to put a time limit on music I purchased legally, and if Microsoft wants to make things right they need to offer people who paid for MSN Music a partial refund or credit at some other Music store.

As many of you already know Microsoft showed off Windows 7. I should say they gave us a sneak peek, and I have to say I’m pretty excited but should I be?

After-all everyone was excited about Vista until they decided to change everything about it and delivered the current version of Vista to us. As a Microsoft fan I have to say I’m afraid to get my hopes up and so I won’t.

While Windows 7 or what we have seen of it looks promising, whose to say they won’t pull the same thing they pulled with Vista and change it. I sure hope they don’t but Microsoft who in my opinion has lost touch with their userbase, can’t be 100% trusted until the day after Windows 7 is released and we see what they delivered.

Well it would seem that Geoff Atkinson the VP for Overstock.com is a big scardy cat, he is so scared of NY and the new internet tax law, he has ordered that all New York Based Affiliates be terminated.

Instead of waiting to see how far the Amazon.com suit against the state of NY goes or even filing one of their own and requesting a delay in collecting tax, this coward puts his tail between his legs and tells NY’ers to F*#@ off, well you know what Mr. Atkinson F*#@ you!

While I am all for no tax on web sales, and while I am against what the state of NY is doing, what Overstock.com has done is an even bigger injustice. Hundreds maybe even thousands of New Yorkers run affiliate marketing businesses and Overstock.com just basically fired them all. Some of these people make their living this way and to punish them is as unfair as NY wanting to charge tax on these sales.

If you own any music purchased from the Defunct MSN Music, come August 31st 2008 your music basically has an expiration date. The expiration date being the day that computer dies.

After that date Microsoft will not allow you to retrieve the license for any music purchased from MSN Music. What the F*#@? You mean to tell me that I spent nearly 100 dollars on music and I can no longer listen to it if I buy a new computer or MP3 player? Is Microsoft kidding me?

First Microsoft claimed they slashed the price on Vista, Then they screwed us with Ultimate Extras, belittled us with UltimatePC.com and is now screwing us over their Music we paid for. This just shows Microsoft has complete lost touch with their user-base.

New York City is known as the Big Apple, and we New Yorkers are proud of that, and recently our City started something called “GreeNYC”.

GreeNYC is a program that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg hopes will help reduce carbon emissions by 30% by the year 2030. The programs website offers tips to NYC Citizens on how they can help reduce emissions and on that website and in booklets the city has given out is a new logo, an apple which sort of looks like a figure 8 with a stem and a leaf.