Signs you might start worrying about Microsoft's future include

...when the army starts buying macs for security.

Actually, I think the combination of virtual machines (because they allow you to run one OS for backwards compatibility and another OS for newer stuff that actually, you know, works, thus providing a migration path out of Windows) and web applications (because they only need a web browser to work and are much easier to deal with maintenance-wise on the client's side) are the more likely downfall of Microsoft. But that won't happen for a while. 5 years at the very earliest, likely longer.

Tips for improving wireless reception from Microsoft

Something useful from Microsoft? Surely you jest!

(though it might actually be useful, hence the post)

Apple pulls a Microsoft

Just when you thought Microsoft had the lock on stupid UI bugs, Apple pulls the "let's fuck up URLs you send in email for no good goddamn reason!" bug.

To those of you getting emails from me with weird, broken-up, un-clickable URLs in them, well, I'm sorry. I didn't know. You have to tell me these things!

From now on your URLs will be enclosed in happy little angle brackets, which I'm told fix the problem. And if I don't, well, I forgot. Fuck off. You're lucky to hear from me at all.

The unintended effects of tight immigration quotas

Hi! I'm globalization. Have we met?

Yay Microsoft!

Woo hoo! Every so often Microsoft isn't completely useless! My xbox is saved!!

Transformers

...was awesome.

Not a good movie, per se, but nonetheless awesome. It had explosions and dueling robots, and that's all I wanted. It didn't dick around with the pretense of plot or character development. Just got right down to the robots shooting at each other. That's all I asked.

In other news, my roommates report that my xbox 360 died. Just out of warranty. Fan-fucking-tastic. Sadly, probably not worth my while to get another one. Boo Microsoft. Apparently I'm joining a disturbingly high number of other people with 360 hardware failure problems.

A little peek at the inside of Google

Interesting little peek at how the inside of Google works from a now-Microsoftie. I very much agree with pretty much every suggestion the guy makes. Food should be free at Microsoft, and developers should have much more freedom over what kind of computers they are using. The quick-stop tech support is a brilliant idea as well.

Jack Thompson: is he really that dumb?

Oh, if only Jack Thompson were worth Bill Gates' time to flatten. Do you have any idea how many lawyers they have on retainer? If it's possible to literally sue someone to death, they would be the ones to figure out how...

Hey Microsoft

Fuck you.

Seriously, I'll be you anything if you actually look at the demographics, it's a combination of young gamers and older gamers who are nostalgic for, oh, say, Zelda. Plus, their controllers are just plain better, and that's going to make their games better. It's almost like they're, I dunno, _innovating_ where Microsoft is being their boring, copycat, douchebag-y selves?

Why Microsoft is broken

This gentleman's blog entry provides a very nice example of how horribly, horribly broken Microsoft is.