For those of you who are not aware, when I was medically retired from the British Army, I retrained in IT and became qualified as an MCSE (Microsoft Certified System Engineer). However after about 5 years of using Windows I bought my first Mac, an iBook G3 and from that point on fell in love with the ease of Mac and basically dropped Windows. Lately though, I know I have fallen too far...

Microsoft have confirmed that their next Operating System release will intact be called “Windows 8“, late 2011 at a Microsoft conference Steve Ballmer let the cat out of the bag whilst demonstrating the OS and it’s Tiles style environment by calling it Windows 8. Many Microsoft officials in the room that day shot him the look of the embarrassing family member who has...

It would appear that on both fronts, Windows Phone 7 as a mobile operating system and the new Samsung Focus carrying said    OS, things are not running as smoothly as predicted or certainly wanted. In the case of the Samsung Focus, the device comes with a Micro SD card, housed in the back of the unit, which of course is  where you would expect to find it. However what you would not...

You know, it is pretty ironic when you watch Steve Ballmer, sat on a stage at MIX08 back in March 2008, talking to Mac faithful, Guy Kawasaki, about how Apple’s iPhone 3G (At the time) was way over priced and no good for the business market, whilst also mocking the MacBook Air on a similar scale. Fast forward to the current day, June 30th 2010 and Microsoft are in a tricky...