Kenley is such a one note designer. yawnfest - Theda
I was surprised she stayed, too, especially after she acted so bitchy to Tim, but I guess they wanted another week of drama. From the previews, looks like she's going to do the same thing to Heidi. It's obvious now who the final 3 will be. They start running away from the others towards the end. - Trish R
She scraped by by the skin of her sarcastic teeth. I think Suede's continued suckage cumulatively got him in the end, not just for last night. - Steve Isaacs
Kenley should have gone home. Suede's might have been boring, but at least it fit the genre better than hers. And seriously, Tim Gunn needs to bitch slap her. - rachel
As a reality TV junkie, i really cant wait to see this series. Creative people jammed into a loft with creative challenges. What could be better than that? - Theda
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"In many ways, my life has been an open book," DMX said in a statement. "But I haven't always been the one writing the story. With this show, however, people will get to see and hear with their own eyes and ears what really goes on in my life and I think they'll come to understand me a little bit better with each episode."" - Theda
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I can;t even imagine what this would have been like when i was @ Tufts. I didnt even have a computer, it was all word processor then. - Theda
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My friend Farai sent this to me. As a multi culti i think the results of the study are interesting and id say 3 of the 4 findings were dead on for me. - Theda
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Is anyone up for checking out this wine bar/ event space/ Winery. YES its a winery in NYC. For about $8K you get to make 280 bottles of wine. - Theda
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I still love "Happily Ever After" as if the record came out today. And the new single "Lovely" doesn't suck either. Nice to hear that Case is back!!!! - Theda
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gdocs doesn't do to well with arabic, so i'm sticking to ooffice <3 - embee
My name is Jason, and I've been off Microsoft Word for over a year now. I can't even imagine my life on that stuff anymore. I'm still apologizing to all my friends and family that I hurt during those dark years. - J450N
Was it the digital Middle Finger? - Chacha
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I think he meant to say that he gave Microsoft 'The Word Bird' - J450N
I use Openoffice at home, work just upgraded my office suite to 2007 about 2 weeks ago. Word just keeps getting more difficult to use and has too many options. - Dylan McIntosh
OpenOffice on my home computers, and Google Docs when on the go. A winning pair. - possible248
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losers....notepad is and always will be the best! ;) - THAT ONE grizzled
i keep going back and forth. I prefer the functions on excel to google docs but Word is always fighting with my MAC and i may soon move everything over to Goggle Docs. I already use it as storage for my files - Theda
i use thinkfree and zoho (ocassionally). hate the bloat that is office - Cee Bee
recently switched to mac and never looking back. - Matt Musgrave
I'm a gamer so no...I would like to have a dual boot Macbook but too pricey...gotta say, I have Vista running on my gaming rig (64bit), my laptop, and my wife's laptop (x86's)...no problems to speak of. No BSOD's or crashes...not dogging people who switch to macs or stick with XP but MY experience with Vista has been mostly positive... - Live4Soccer
Switched nearly a year ago. It feels so dirty when I run windows on it (our of necessity, only!) - Saul Mora
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I switched about a year ago. Didn't even know how to cut and paste on my macbook pro. Absolutely loving it. - Phillip Jeffrey
I would absolutely love a mac laptop of some kind, but I am not willing to give up my first born son. I love the little guy. I do, however, have a mac mini for my recording studio. - Rah™
yup.. after years of IBM Thinkpad X series, switched few month ago.... I wish i've done it before (well.. Leopard + VMware helped in this decision.. feeling very safe) - Naor
We thought about it while we were able to get an educational discount, but those days are gone - sergiooo
Yuvi... it's time for you to sell your StatBot reviews. Do 10 at $100 each and you've got a Mac laptop. - Louis Gray
@Louis Gray: Even if/when I do that, I'll still get a Dell XPS. I just don't see the value in the Mac. - Yuvi
I did 7 mos ago--one of best decisions I've made. - shelisrael1
10/2001, my first Mac. I wouldn't call it switching since I still use Windows for some tasks, but I can definitely say Mac OS X replaced Linux/UNIX in my home. - Bwana McCall
Used both for 13 years either mac at work or home and windows in the other. Now both in both places. Prior to that DOS and Unix - Nick Cowie
Switched to Mac last year and loving every minute of it. Started small and inexpensive with a Mac Mini in 2005. Still using that machine and have added a few others. Helped a family member buy a new Dell machine recently as they did not want to switch to a Mac. But the cost of the Dell was within $200 of an Apple. The price difference is not as great as it used to be. - Dan Boggs
I have 2 gaming PCs at home + windows media center for TV. I use macs at work, since that's all that they give me. :) - iomegadrive
i'm itching to switch from PC to Mac but I have _so_ much PC software that it would take thousands just to get a new Mac to a place where my PC is from a functionality standpoint... - Morgan
Nope.... probably never make a switch but I might buy a Mac & use both though. - ChaCha Fance
@Morgan. Like what for example? The only reason I still need to run windows is for MS money. Otherwise I've found alternatives for almost everything else. - Paul Grav
over 12 months switched and I've never looked back. It pains me to use Windows now. Morgan, you'd be surprised, but you can switch without it costing you much at all in new software...it was always a reason I used against switching. Worst case, spend <$100 on VMWare fusion or parallels and run your software you can't give up that way until you can ween yourself off it - Duncan Riley
Why, when I can fix pretty much anything my PC throws at me? I'm not going to jump on the Mac bandwagon until that's something I have to do because it's a better product. Although I do have to say I'm coveting that Air thingy...... - Wendy
No. I dual boot Vista and Ubuntu. I always end up using Vista. - Vez ৩
No, I only buy Tablet PCs and UMPCs and Apple doesn't make one - - LPH™
only mac I actually use is my Apple IIe ... does that count? - Mo Kargas
Although I have both PCs and Macs, I use the right tool for the task at hand. My computing needs are driven by my computing requirements. Always have, always will. - Kevin C. Tofel
I switch to Mac in 2004. I was first among my friends. I knew nobody who used a mac, nor had I seen one. Ordered a G5 on the web. note: I live in Sweden - Magnus Jonsson
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...hoping to make the full switch this year. - JA Castillo
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Bought a MacBook Pro last year. Now I only use Windows at work. I looked at a similarly configured Dell notebook at that time, but the MacBook Pro was less expensive. - Tim
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I don't see any compelling reason to use a Mac. I would just spend a week getting Windows to run on it in a VM. No, I will stick with my Windows computer(s) for the foreseeable future. - Sean Brady
Yes - I keep a PC specifically for my wife, whose company uses some web software that *only works on* internet explorer. That is it. - keif
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I will also add that we have a few Mac's at the office we use to support other Mac users. I used the computer for a couple of weeks and I did not feel that was any easier to use, or crashed less. In fact, I found it more confusing. Perhaps that is due to using Windows everyday for the past 10 years. Like @Wendy said, I can fix anything that Windows throws at me, why change. - Sean Brady
Bought a MacBook last year. I'm using it to post this comment, but I rarely use it. It's not a Tablet PC. I don't like keyboards. I really don't like the touchpad. One-step deletion of email is aggravating, too. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
I also got a Macbook last year and ended up giving it to my son. It felt like I was doing extra work and learning efforts for minimal if any gaining in productivity. In addition, my mother language, Korean support is horrible on Mac. Overall PC meets my needs better and happens to be generally cheaper too. - inkook
I switched quite a few years ago. But then, I'd already switched to BeOS before that. :-) - Brent Newhall
I helped my wife switch (G4 PowerBook) a while back, but I simply can't afford the hardware. - Jay Wiegmann
I bought an iMac a year ago for at home, use Vista at work. I'd only had it about a month and something went sideways and I had to reinstall the operating system. I'd not done that much with it, but lost the time I'd spent ripping a bunch of CDs into iTunes. I wasn't very happy about that. Just as many updates as Windows, seems like. It's okay, but I'm more comfortable with Windows. I prefer a Tablet too. - asiriusgeek
Switched to a MacBook Pro just over 2 years ago. Love it. Never going back. - Brandon Wood
Personally use a Mac, Windows for work. Rumor has it we're switching to Mac's at work as well... - George Smith
Switched about a year ago, and can't believe what I was missing. I avoided Macs for a long time because of Mac snobs (they really turned me off). But I have to admit I now get why they are the way they are. Windows XP is to Ford Pinto as OS X is to Porsche 911. Both will get you there, but you're going to enjoy yourself a hell of a lot more in one of them. - Jason Clarke
Switched a year ago. Love my computer again. Won't say Macs are perfect or anything. But an Intel Mac is at least as much fun as any PC I've ever owned... I'd say moreso. - tinu
I agree that the iPhone will probably take over the market. But before everyone starts planning funerals for RIM and Nokia, let's wait to see how they respond to Apple's latest release. I'll concede that their response to the 1st gen iPhone was lackluster. - Joe Ferris
I don't agree. Of course iPhone will be popular - very popular - but only by the first movers and the young who wants to have the newest and coolest device. The iPhone lacks too many functions - such a video and MMS and a camera with only 2 mega pixels are a joke today.I will prefer my Nokia N95 8GB anytime - Christian Bogh
If Apple diversify into a music phone, a business phone, a photography-oriented camera phone etc they can grab a huge market share with their combination of style and usability. One phone won't 'rule them all'. The RAZR sold huge amounts in its time but (outside America anyway) people kept buying a wide range of phones. Some people don't even like touchscreens! - Martin Bryant
One phone won't rule them all indeed. RIM and Nokia are going *nowhere*. Although I do always wonder when see someone with a Samsung or other random phone, why did you choose *that* ?! - william stewart
My Canon ixus 2MB is now 5 years old. I'll be buying a new camera in the next couple of months - a dedicated camera. No, my phone camera is not good enough, convergence isn't quite there yet. - william stewart
Depends what you want from convergence. The Nokia N82 is fantastic for a camera phone, for example. Personally I'm going for an iPhone 3G for ease of use but so many people want different things from their phones that a one phone strategy can't work for Apple forever. My girlfriend thinks iPhones are for posers. At the moment she'd rather stick with her 3 year old Samsung flip phone. Give her a cutesy 'iPhone Nano' and she may be more inclined to go for it. - Martin Bryant
the iPhone is going to have to come with a full two thumb keyboard if it is going to get me to abandon my Blackberry. - Theda
Shame that Mike's got the US market share for the iPhone wrong. The article he links to in it notes that it fell last quarter. - Ian Betteridge
“Tomorrow a Microsoft team is meeting to start planning Office 15. Keep in mind that Office 14 hasn't shipped yet and probably won't for another year.”
I am writing a blog about Office 2018. - Robert Scoble
and i haven't even tinkered with v13 yet - DAVE ID
somehow , I don't feel as excited about Microsoft releases as I did a year ago - Sanat Gersappa
they probably will pat themselves on the back for being visionary and forward thinking for initiating the meetings now.. - sedgewick
I tell you folks? Use a text editor (vim), and LaTeX, use awk and sed :) - directeur
Prescription for FAIL. Why would they start on a newer version that follows one that hasn't been tested out with the general public. - Tsega Dinka
They better answer three attacks on their business: 1. Free/cheap office clones and/or new services supported by advertising. 2.Mobile. 3. Collaborative services like Adobe'sBuzzword. - Robert Scoble
How many Offices do we need? I am still using Office 2000! KISS - Igor The Troll
Sounds very old-school when considering Google Docs - Joakim Hilj
There isn't a v13. Microsoft is apparently jumping from v12 (Office 2007) to v14. Some kind of superstition? - Michel Bechelani
yeah. Microsoft is superstitious. Most American elevators don't stop at 13th floor either. - Robert Scoble
I mean c'on is part of every big product life cycle. u guys cannot expect for them to have 14 done before starting 15... with the amount of work ahead they have to make it to all that scoble list... no wonder they are starting this early. - Gilbert Corrales
funny part though is that microsoft will be playing catch after been the one at front in some fronts for office productivity and collaboration ;) - Gilbert Corrales
I'll ask an obvious, and often asked question, but I'll ask it: Why BUY MS Office when one can use Openoffice for free? - directeur
Directeur. 1.) most people have never heard of Openoffice, 2.) 99% of enterprises will not deploy it (which contributes back to most people having never heard of it). - Robert Seidman
you want to design your next product based on lessons from customer experiences with the previous release. Harder when the previous product has only hit the UE labs, not RTM. I wonder what features and design concerns made it into 14, and which ones are left over for 15. And where they think the market will be in 2010-2012. What will Google Docs/Office, Apple's web office, and MS Live Office look like in 2 years, 4 years? - Phil Wolff
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Robert: You're right, but I mean people who have influence should advocate alternate opensource solutions too... at least if they're not affiliated with MS - directeur
Are they feeling the dent of Google Docs, though? Is anybody? - l0ckergn0me
Chris, how often does someone send you a google docs link as an e-mail attachment? I've never gotten one. - Robert Seidman
@Robert Seidman I use it when I need my recipients to collaborate back, if not I just attach a file... but again here is where I see a big change comming along the lines. getting people to collaborate. - Gilbert Corrales
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hmmm Innovations happening dump users buying dump products. Ge's strategy on Windows VIsta is good.. they're skipping Windows Vista and going for Windows 7. Microsoft has had revisions on it's popular product in previous 3-4 years. which only make sense to microsoft - Sarath
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Robert Seidman: Never got one as an attachment - they just share the doc with me and I get an email notification. But hey, I work there so maybe I'm an exception ;-) Mind you, my wife and I share docs'n'spreadsheets all the time... I'd hate to get those docs as attachments because then we couldn't collaborate on editing them... - Steve Lacey
About as often as I see a computer with Firefox installed - which isn't to say that Firefox isn't taking a bite out of IE's share. - l0ckergn0me
Steve Lacey and Gilbert, fair points. But today it seems like there's a significantly larger market for distributing info than collaborating on it. There may be a day when a PR person ("social media" or otherwise) actually wants the intended recipients of a press release with powerpoint presentation to collaborate on the content, but that day isn't June 12, 2008 - Robert Seidman
but again on june 12, 2008. my family setup a google spreadsheet for all my mothers siblings to collaborate on things to bring at a dinner. none of them are computer savis. they just find the functionality handy ;) just as my excollege mates with our own partys (but we are CS so we don't count or do we?) - Gilbert Corrales
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With every version; they simply try to increase the graciousness of a crash - from "something went very wrong" to "Oh, i don't know what to do now; do you wish me to ask Redmond?". I wonder if in v15; an error message will mimic Barbosa - "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request." :P - Parth Awasthi
and on June 12, 2008 half a million of us out of 7 billion are probably loving the heck out of FriendFeed, but that wouldn't prompt me to ask "Why would anyone use Facebook or Myspace or anything else when they could use FriendFeed?" ok, maybe it would, but still... - Robert Seidman
Tomorrow a NASA team will meet to start planning a manned trip to Mars. Keep in mind that we haven't even sent people back to the Moon yet, and probably won't for many more years. - Bruce Williams
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Robert Seidman: Sure a PR person may want to broadcast a powerpoint presentation or document release or something. The other 99.999% of us just want to share and collaborate. Right now my wife and I have a spreadsheet that contains planning info for our upcoming vacation. Emailing back and forth a spreadsheet with edits just ain't gonna work for that scenario... - Steve Lacey
Wow! now this is called news.. Mary JoFoley has not blogged about it yet!!?? Somebody call her.. (how could she miss news about this meeting!!!) - Jigar Mehta
I would like to read a blogpost about MS Home 2018 (lol) - Torsten Eckert
My Mac and Microsoft 2008 dont get along, im transitioning everything to Google Docs - Theda
All I need is vim (and google docs for the odd spreadsheet). - Sam Levine
It's tough to plan relevant features when you take that long to deploy software. Wow. - Jeremy Kunz
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The entire desktop paradigm, including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, is dead in the water. It's difficult to imagine any really creative programming minds being engaged with developing those products in 2008. - Sean McBride
"the entire desktop paradigm, including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, is dead?" When you get your web browser running without an operating system of some kind, please drop by to pick up your Nobel Prize. - Karim
Maybe they gave the V13 to Office:mac 2008 ;-) - Karim
@Sean McBride - What do you say about the Ribbon Toolbar then??? - Roberto Bonini
Karim: an operating system "of some kind" (preferably the less bloated the better) will get one on the Web, where one's most important tools and resources will reside. Roberto: Ribbon Toolbar = gilding the lily. Not where the action or momentum are, not a fresh new continent. Humongous desktop operating systems and apps are paperweights, historical curiosities, millstones around the neck of Microsoft. Just one person's opinion, of course. - Sean McBride
@Sean: The Number One Question for people buying an OS is NOT "How 'bloated' is it." Second, if the OS still has relevancy, it seems a bit premature to declare the desktop "dead." it's easy to declare something a billion people use every day "dead," :-) but I don't see you declaring what's going to supplant it. In the age of terabyte disks, gigabytes of RAM, and 64-bit architectures,it seems more likely measuring an app's virtue by way of its footprint is what will end up a "historical curiosity." - Karim
