The place João Bordalo calls home: Tag microsoft

Bill Gates last day

bordalix — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:08:00 -0500

A brilliant video presented by Bill Gates in his CES 2008 keynote. Featuring Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bono, Jon Stewart, with a great humor and fantastic self critic. I'm amazed:

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The new zunePhone

bordalix — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:03:00 -0400

An exclusive sneak peek at the soon-to-be released zunePhone from Microsoft! Steve Ballmer isn't sleeping on the job.

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Microsoft Surface, the parody

bordalix — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:40:00 -0400

My thoughts exactly:

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Microsoft did not steal ideas from Mac OS X

bordalix — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:04:00 -0400

For the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Windows Vista, trying to prove in his video that "Microsoft did not steal ideas from Mac OS X".

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Firefox 2 vs IE 7

bordalix — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:30:00 -0500

The initial round was won by Firefox 2, with 2 million downloads in the first 24 hours. IE 7 got 3 million downloads in 4 days, which gives something like 750 thousands downloads per day.

But now will enter Windows Automatic Update, which will boost IE 7 downloads number. But what matters for me is that user preferences are bending for the free, open-source browser, Firefox.

Microsoft: don't view the source

bordalix — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:26:00 -0400

Guess what happens when you click the 'View Source' option in IE7? No comments.

Funny MS Word easter egg

bordalix — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:07:00 -0400

Just write "= rand (200,99)" (without the commas) and hit enter.

The history of Microsoft

bordalix — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:47:00 -0500

A brief story of everyone's favorite company: Microsoft. A great video, 9m15s of pure joy.

Majors re-design

bordalix — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:22:00 -0500

After Microsoft implementation of a new design for their webpage, it seems Yahoo and Google are also testing for new layouts:

Yahoo's new design, via techblog.com
Google's new webpage, via jamesyu.org

You can read what other people think in the comments section of the posts mentioned above.

Update 7/Mar/2006: Google is testing date ranges in the search box, see it for yourself in this ego centric url.

Microsoft re-designs iPod packaging

bordalix — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:50:00 -0500

For all the product managers out there, a brilliant parody on how Microsoft would re-design the iPod packaging. See it for yourself, and please share the lessons learned (via Rui).