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Aug 10

Word v Pages

If you can’t get excited about your word processor, stop reading now. But if you can get excited, Betalogue offers a great side-by-side compairson of Microsoft Word and Apple’s take on the classic word processor, Pages:

“In Word 2008, you have at least three different ways of viewing the same information (the style[s] of the current selection), i.e. a palette, a toolbar control, and a dialog box, and none of them is able to provide any useful information. In addition, each of them provides a difference piece of false information!”

Lots of screen shots. Good write up. Check it out.

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Oct 09

3D Desktop

Folks have been discussing and trying out 3D desktops for a while, and nothing has ever stuck. BumpTop however, looks rather interesting. As Gruber notes, it’s “the coolest software to ship Windows-only in years.”

What do you think? Is this a nicely polished gimmick, or the future of computing?

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Jul 09

Best Buy and Open Source

Best Buy is one of those companies that loves Microsoft.  So I was particularly happy when I saw this announcement come across about Best Buy Idea X:

“a website where you can share, vote for, and discuss ideas that will help make Best Buy a better company. The site is built using Ruby on Rails and runs in Amazon’s Compute Cloud.”

Maybe open source and cloud computing isn’t so bad, ‘eh? Beautiful looking site too.

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Jun 09

Developers Switching to the Mac

Mark Nutter writes about Why Developers are Switching to Mac.

“Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t come bundled with PHP, Rails, or any other open-source web development frameworks or languages any time soon. More and more of what we do is in the cloud these days anyways and it is almost starting to feel quaint when you come across new software that runs solely as a desktop client. Microsoft has painted themselves into a corner – they rely on closed formats and standards in a world where open source software, open formats, and open standards are king.”

I have to agree. I know very few web developers that have Windows and like it. Most “Web 2.0″ developers I know already have Mac’s, or are planning to switch soon, which makes me wonder what that will happen long term … if all future software is on the web (which seems to be the case more and more each year), and all of that is developed on non-Microsoft tools, will Microsoft cease to be relevant?

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May 09

Office 2010 Salad

I like to think I’m a smart guy and am able to handle new things, but I’m with Steven F on the Office 2010 interface:

“This is impenetrable. It’s UI salad. I realize this is not (yet) shipping software, but my god. If you sat me down in front of this, I wouldn’t have the slightest idea where to begin.”

[via Daring Fireball, via Lifehacker]

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