Tag: microsoft

Microsoft’s Infinite Wisdom

I had installed Windows Live Writer (Offline blogging tool), when it was in its infancy, and it was pretty good – small, lightweight, fast etc. So I wanted to give it another shot. Live writer is now a fully blown MS software, which means, it is now officially, bloated, slow, and big. It takes 8 seconds to load up. It has to install Live Image Gallery, even if you uncheck it etc etc. So as usual, I was disgusted, and uninstalled it. And I happened to see the below snapshot, while uninstalling.

Uninstalling installer ! If there is one thing that MS still maintains, it is entertainment value (in how ridiculous it can get!) 😉

Processing power commoditized


(Awesome image courtesy Cliff Dwelling’s flickr stream)

I just read about the new microsoft data center paradigm and was appropriately blown away. Read this exerpt and you will see for yourself:

The trucks back ’em in, rack ’em, and stack ’em,” Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie told CNET News. And the containers remain sealed, Ozzie said. Once a certain number of servers in the container have failed, it will be pulled out and sent back to the manufacturer and a new container loaded in. 

Read the full article in CNET here.