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I guess I should first admit I hate the show Punk’d. I mean, here’s a guy who is famous for lying about his age so he seems hipper, telling us that his show’s purpose it to deflate the big egos on other stars, and show them what truly matters in life. So he sets up situations where anyone would get upset, and then laughs when he upsets people. I call *cough*bullshit*cough*. (Also *cough*jerkface*cough*.)


So I have to admit I’m not predisposed to like The Mojave Experiment, where Microsoft took a bunch of “regular folks” XP users who were afraid of Vista, and told them Microsoft was going to show them a secret new operating system — which was actually Vista. #

Microsoft treats its customers like they're stupid. #

This seems to me to be lots of non-plussed people saying "Really?" I dont get it. How does this sell Vista? Also, Surely some of these people said, "This is Vista right? Not Mojave.". You can be sure I'd recognise Leopard.

Yes, keep away Microsoft! #

...Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten states in a letter to customers that, as recompense for nearly two weeks of outages, the group is offering up a full, free Xbox Live Arcade title free of charge. #

As someone finding finding games in Call of Duty 4 a real headache I can certainly attest to the ropeyness of XBL at the moment. I'm not sure I really want a free game as compensation though. Just get it working MS.

A Microsoft blogger revealed yesterday that the next version of Windows ("Windows 7") will contain touch features with specific claims that the new features will 'blow away' the current touch features on the iPhone

So the next version of Windows, not due till 2010 will 'blow away' the current iPhone's touch features? Hmm, think about that one MS. Where do you think the iPhone will be in 3 years time whilst you're sill playing catchup?

I've had my new Xbox 360 for a whole weekend so it's clearly time to reflect on the experience thus far. I'm sure I'm bringing nothing new to the 360 table as it's been out for years but this is my first serious experience with it.

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I now have an Xbox 360. Quick initial notes, it took a while to set up, typing with the controller is a pain. It's kind of cludgy in a Microsoft way but does some clever stuff with the friends flashing up and voice messages etc. Oh and here's my 360's blog - as is popular.