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Here is a little something i wrote on the Zune.Net Forum… I have been experiencing a Critical Error with my ZUNE software and I am at the end of my rope with the apparent lack of care Microsoft is taking in their development.

WE need something new!!! Windows is OLD.

“OK… I too am having this issue… I find it funny that there is all this back and forth about this.

Hey Microsoft!!!! When did we stop being the customer? Why do WE need to fix your failures? We all work hard to have the things we have is it seams pretty ridicules that there are hundreds of forums talking about this same issue and NO FIX from Microsoft. I mean sure there are ways to get is running but what about the computer users that are not technical at all… trust me there are more of them then us.

This is your Product with your Software on your Operating System. When do you take the responsibility to make it work? I like my ZUNE but I have to tell you I have never had an issue with an IPOD that was this bad. Apple’s software works fine on vista.”

FIX FOUND!!!!  Located on the ZUNE Forum… CLICK HERE

OK… this needs to be said… “What the hell is Microsoft doing?”

For a while now I have been using MS Office 2007 and I have to say that although it looks pretty it is by far the slowest version of the Office generations by Far. This is more noticeable when using Outlook in an office setting… I am not yet sure if it is due to the connection to the Exchange server, the number of users, the software or a combination of them all.

So here is my standard startup in the morning when arriving to work. Boot my system… start Outlook… wait three or more minutes for Outlook to be ready then open my first e-mail of the day and wait 2 or more minutes for that e-mail to be ready. After the first 2 or 3 e-mails it appears that everything that needs to load is now in memory and the rest of the day is fine.  

Anyone else having the same issue?

So I have been working on a new Media Center PC with some slightly older parts…

AMD X2 4000+ (socket AM2)
2 GB of DDR2
80GB SATA Drive (just for starters)
Vista Media Center

At this point it is still a work in progress but going through the motions on this system has been an eye opening experience as the limitations of the Media Center by Microsoft. It is much more limited then I first thought.

Honestly… Why would Microsoft expect this to take off when it will not support some of the most basic functions? A basic example is accessing other programs and games from the Media Center menu. Perhaps it is just me but it seems that you should be able to add shortcuts for other programs, especially games to your menu.

DVD library… I know this is a tricky subject but if I own my DVD’s then I should be able to have an image of that DVD on my media center drive. It should be no different then an MP3 collection. Right? This over controlling tendencies of the entertainment industry is just getting ridicules… Again the rich are getting richer because of unchecked greed (that is a different article).

As I mentioned this is still a work in progress but as I find ways around the limitations of the “out of box” software I will post my findings. But lets be realistic… Microsoft needs to do something far better if they want this to be adopted in a more main stream fashion.

-GEEK

I find that in today’s day of Facebook and MySpace that you have to pay for Classmates.com. I am new the their site and I find it absolutely pathetic that I have to pay just to see who signed my guest book. So here it is…

DOWN WITH CLASSMATES.COM!!!!

With so many other great FREE sites available it is truly pointless to use a site that requires you to pay for even the most basic of features. And lets face it their site interface is substandard at best.