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Microsoft’s iPod killer, doomed to have a lame name?

Via Engadget, very blurry pictures of Microsoft’s alleged iPod killer.

While I’m not personally part of the iPod cult, like most Apple products they’re good to look at whilst still being functional. Unfortunately I don’t see how Microsoft will be able to compete in this sphere against the very entrenched Apple and the myriad other personal media players – given their tendency to give interestingly code-named projects utterly dull ‘real’ names.

For example, there was the recent ‘Origami’ project, there was a fair amount of buzz on the blogs about it, people were speculating, there were viral marketing sites, then… They called it the ‘UMPC’. Frankly they could have called it the ‘Huh?’ and gotten a better name.

Microsoft needs to hire some marketers with a flair for imaginative names. Or just steal some of Apple’s, either works for me.

 

June 4th, 2006

I am OS/2 Warp!

Somehow I'm comforted by this, as I actually ran OS/2 for many years, firstly as my sole operating system, then as a dual-boot with NT4, then finally I bid it farewell and installed Windows 2k. 

You are OS2-Warp. You're plagued by feelings of abandonment and disgust for your backstabbing step-brother.  Oh, what might have been.

Which OS are You?

But, at least it would install, do you hear that Vista?

June 2nd, 2006

Vista doesn’t like me

I’ve tried to install Beta 2 of Windows Vista multiple times, both the 32- and 64-bit version, and have so far fallen down at the first hurdle each time.

For some reason, Vista thinks that my motherboard, the otherwise wonderful IWILL DK8N doesn’t have a fully ACPI compliant BIOS, and blue-screens at the first part of the installation process.

I don’t quite understand this, as I’m running Windows XP happily, and device manager says it’s running the ACPI Multiprocessor kernel, and ACPI v2 is enabled in the BIOS, so I’m stumped.

Even Google has let me down on this, as I can’t find anyone with a similar problem with Vista, so I guess I’m going to have to wait to experience the Vistary goodness until IWILL gets back to me with some information.

I’m tempted to install the 64 bit version of XP, and they try an upgrade, but my spider sense is telling me that would be a Bad Thing. Frustrating.

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