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Am I late yet?
They will be added to this blog sadly.
CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says
Deleting whole ass pages on word shouldn't be hard.
MICROSOFT SURFACE BOOK
introduced on October 6th
MICROSOFT SURFACE STUDIO
introduced on October 26
PORSCHE DESIGN BOOK ONE
introduced at MWC 2017
MICROSOFT SURFACE LAPTOP
introduced on May 2nd
IIRC the Mac versions of Microsoft Office actually function better than the Windows ones. I suspect this is partially because Apple has its own proprietary version of the Office suite that you can download for free if you are running OSX, so Microsoft Office has to work really hard to be able to compete.
I say partially though because the performance of Microsoft Office software on Macs has always been better in my recollection, even before the iWork suite was a thing. Word 2004 on the old-timey rainbow iMacs and battered Macbooks at my elementary school ran smoother, with much quicker saving and less crashes, than Word 2003 on the XP I had at home. Word 2007 was even more laggy, and this was despite my parents buying a custom Vista to ensure that all the hardware was suitable for the then-new OS (bad communication at launch from Microsoft meant that a lot of retailers were selling computers with Vista installed that had no business running anything newer than XP. My parents made sure that our Vista did not have this problem.).
Vista was the last Microsoft computer my family invested in, but from my experiences at libraries and places like that, I've been disappointed in how little has changed. I mean, that's not to say that nothing has changed at all-- Word 2023 doesn't crash like Word 2007 (which makes it much less anxiety-provoking to use!), and Excel has made leaps and strides towards better functionality when it comes to complicated math and data analysis. But across the board, the performance of Microsoft Office is still noticeably worse on Windows than Mac.
I mean, lack of competition is one hell of a drug but the performance gap between Microsoft Office on Windows and on Mac has been around since before Apple started trying to compete with Microsoft Office. Microsoft Windows is consistently the worst OS to run Microsoft products on and it's just so... baffling. If you love Microsoft software (and have a pool full of gold coins to swim in), buy a Mac. The software will work better.
Microsoft Word: *Blue squiggle*
Me: Oh what now? You're objecting to the word "the" now?
Me: *Right clicks "the"*
Microsoft Word: *Bitches out*
Me: That's what I thought!
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, MICROSOFT??
Writing a flashback about a trans character having their first experience of gender euphoria: "It felt like such a fucking trans stereotype to say that they felt like they were seeing themself for the first time..." Word highlights the phrase "fucking trans" as possibly offensive, with the potentially offensive word in that phrase being TRANS and not THE SWEAR. AND. I. WHAT??!!?!?? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING HELL, MICROSOFT
Markrosoft Paint with a mouse
La (nueva) guerra de los buscadores
Hoy Microsoft acaba de lanzar su nuevo buscador, con lo cual se abre una pelea entre 3 buscadores 3. El que se sienta de nuevo en 2001, que levante la mano.
La pelea se centra entre Bing de los creadores de Live Search, Wolfram Alpha del creador de Mathematica y Google de los creadores de, duh, Google.
¿Que cual es mi preferido? De momento, ninguno. Los 3 se enfocan a caminos muy distintos, a sabiendas que si Yahoo no logró ganar mercado copiando a Google, ellos tampoco.
Bing, por un lado, intenta replantear a Google. Para ello, plantea centrar su uso en búsquedas que tienen mas de una respuesta correcta (por ejemplo a que restaurante ir o en que hotel se puede uno hospedar). Bing también cambia la manera de buscar videos permitiendo buscar en sitios que no sean YouTube o Google Video (de esa pata cojea MUCHO Google), permitiendo buscar imágenes hasta por estilo y dándole prioridad en búsquedas a las Redes Sociales (por ejemplo si blingeas "L8", sale en 3º lugar mi viejo perfil de Twitter de @TheLazyElf).
Wolfram Alpha, en cambio, busca ser el hijo bastardo de un buscador y una Wikipedia. Así, puedes preguntarle la población de México, el clima de Madrid o el significado de la vida. Vamos, que Wolfram lo que quiere es salvarle el trasero a los periodistas flojos que creen que todo lo que dice internet es cierto y no quieren contrastar fuentes.
Y enmedio, Google, haciendo un poco de cada cosa (sobre todo lo del significado de la vida :P).
Como podrán ver, la cosa esta pareja. Eso si, si lo que quieren es odiar al buscador de Microsoft, les aviso que al blingear "Harry Potter" Blog Hogwarts sale antes que HarryLatino. ¡Maldito Bing! LOL
A lo largo de los siglos, se ha vertido mucha tinta filosófica sobre el tema de si el ser humano es libre para decidir o si nuestras acciones vienen determinadas por fuerzas externas: herencia, entorno, historia, destino, Microsoft.
Thomas Cathcart y Daniel Klein en el libro ‘Platón y un ornitorrinco entran en un bar’
Este es el nuevo logo de Microsoft. ¿Cómo le caería este estilo a otros logos? Para los que no han leído la noticia: Si, Microsoft cambia oficialmente de logo a tiempo para lanzar Windows 8. Se nota que alguien perdió su licencia de Photoshop y prefirió usar Paint para rediseñar el logo en vez de bajarse una copia pirata de internet.