Archive for April, 2008
Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe LightRoom gets another champion
April 29th, 2008 | 
Author: Considering for the past decade Microsoft has yet to release anything that would even resemble a competitor to Photoshop this could get interesting. However, considering the momentum Photoshop has with photographers and Lightroom is now just as much a staple application even as it comes up on version 2.0, Microsoft has miles of ground to cover. It seems to me the best they could hope to achieve, at least within the next 5 years is to gain some market share against Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro. I can’t foresee a time when serious photographers are going to give up Photoshop or now Lightroom.
What’s Microsoft want with Adobe Photoshop guru Mark Hamburg, who recently joined the Redmond juggernaut?
Hamburg a programmer who has been part of the Adobe Photoshop team since version 2.0 and helped lead the Photoshop Lightroom one, is now a Softie, as News.com’s Stephen Shankland reported on April 28.
The official word from Microsoft is Hamburg will be working on unnamed “user experience” efforts. My bet is Hamburg will be instrumental in helping Microsoft bring to market its Photoshop Lightroom competitor, which is codenamed “SmartFlow.”
Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe LightRoom gets another champion
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Seagate ships its billionth hard drive, promises 2 B in five years
I guess all those MP3 files and pictures finally added up. And to think, my first hard drive was 20MB
In just under 30 years, Seagate has become the first manufacturer to ship one billion hard drives, and it expects to double that number within the next five.
In recent years, worldwide shipments of hard drives has soared — a statistic that’s not surprising considering the advent of portable digital media players and rising demand for laptops, which are typically replaced much sooner than traditional desktop PCs, as well as online data storage.
Seagate ships its billionth hard drive, promises 2 B in five years
Ballmer describes Vista as "work in progress"
Wow, even ol’ Steve thinks Vista is a piece of crap. It’s never a good sign when a released product is referred to as a ‘work in progress’. I guess Windows ME now has competition for biggest piece of crap operating system ever released.
Does Vista get better or worse if you run it on a Mac?
Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is “a work in progress”, and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release. Speaking at the Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle, Ballmer resisted calls for a slimmed down Windows 7: “Vista is bigger than XP and it’s gonna stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn’t get bigger still.”