Now that the beta for Office 2007 is available I've downloaded it and had a play. I even used Word for some real writing and so I think I'm in a position to comment on the new UI that most of Office now has. I've also been told to be more positive on my blog so that should make this interesting. So what are my first impressions? The very first thing I thought was "where has all the functionality gone", but this only lasted for a few minutes as I tried to use Word. As far as I can tell all...

In my last post I had a little rant about the things that are really bugging me at the moment, but I saved you from the harsher ones like why I hate Sony more and more with ever day that passes. This time I'm going be positive and say what's really great at the moment. Team Foundation Server It may be a v1 product but already it's pretty damn good. The source control is great and although the UI is a little cumbersome the whole work item part works perfectly in order to get proper traceability in development. The next time our...

There's so much about this industry that just makes me angry nowadays, which unfortunately means that you get to be ranted at. Vista Vista really annoys me. It's not so much the culling of features as it still looks like a great operating system. It's not even the few thing that Microsoft have really messed up in it (Linux and MacOS manage to handle the "enter your admin password to do this" model well, why can't Microsoft?). It's the constant "Vista is going to be delayed" rumours that spring up every two days. These aren't news articles, they're baseless speculation designed to...

Logic Express doesn't seem to have a cowbell. How am I supposed to create my masterpiece under these conditions?