Not only are their tools terrible, but everyone involved in their creation should feel bad. Let’s name the subjects of most of my ire, in no particular order: Microsoft Teams Azure DevOps Office 365 (or whatever this week’s branding is) Each of these tools is **substantially** behind their competitors. The easiest comparison to draw is with Go...

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so says BetaNews. I can’t imagine anything I’d want less than an IM client inside of Word. You’d hope that instead of tacking in all this shit they might try and make Office stable. “The relationship between Istanbul and LCS is similar to that between Exchange and Outlook,” a Microsof...

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Microsoft launched Spaces today. Dear God it’s shit. I don’t really have much more to say on the matter, so I’ll just quote one of my workmates who also signed up to see what it was like: diabolical. I realise that this post will make you go to spaces to sign up and see what it’s like – really, don’t. You’ll just be wasting your life.

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Gary Schare, Microsoft’s director of product management for Windows says: I still believe in the end that most users will decide that IE is the best choice when they take into account all the factors that led them to choose IE in the first place Well, excuse me, but I used IE for years and never had a say in the matter. I turned on my computer for the fi...

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In his most recent ‘ongoing’ post, Tim Bray writes: These days, interoperation and integration are everything. You’d better have open interfaces, open networks, open services; that is, open data. Which in practical terms usually means XML. I’ve been thinking about this a little bit recently. Not the specifics of using XML, but integration in general. I’v...

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This was actually announced last week, but doesn’t seem to have been picked up quite as much as I thought it would have. Lookoutsoft, the makers of the absolutely excellent search plugin for Outlook have been bought by Microsoft (did someone say embrace and extend?). If you didn’t know already, Lookout was the only way of searchin...

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From on Robert Scoble’s post about meeting with the head of the IE team comes a link to jeffdav’s weblog – Jeff is a member of the IE UI team! The first IE-team blogger? Looks like it, and it looks like it’s going to be a good read. (there’s also

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Just say NO to Microsoft (via Cheah Chu Yeow) is a site listing alternatives to MS software for all (as far as I can tell) of the domains they have a product in: from OS to word processor; WebTV to Exchange. It’s nice to have a list that you can point people a...

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