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    Donald Norman

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  1. Review - Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection for Windows XP

    6.0 (Dec 1, 2006)

    I don't have a Vista or Longhorn system to test this with, but using it to connect to XP, 2003 or 2000 systems is a pain. The extra layer of security is not yet compatible with the legacy systems (maybe if you installed the update - which is in the form of a KB update - on both machines). The session opens with the requirement to put in your connection credentials - which can not be authenticated by the legacy machines. Therefore, you must set the client to connect despite the lack of authentication, and then type in your credentials again.

    I anticipate that with a compatible system, the connection credentials would pass through for logon as well - but that is only a guess.

    On the plus side, there are more videao options and the ability to select which local drives are available to the session, which is nice.

    I re-installed the RDP client for 2003 and I don't see myself using it again until I have a predominately Vista environment or XP, 2003 and 2000 are updated to handle the new athentication method.

  2. Review - IE Performance Addon

    0.0.5 Beta (Jun 19, 2002)

    Does what it says and I like the idea, but is limiting. No opportunity to optimize or browse separately. I have a home built page with frames and it refuses to load. I would love to have a separate home page for the band; the ability to position the band; and the ability to independantly navigate in the band (at least back and forward would be helpful).

  3. Comment - iPhone Battery Target of Class-Action Suit

    0.0.5 Beta (Jul 30, 2007 - 3:02 PM)

    Math - Take the lowest time between charges under heavy use - 5 hours - with say 30 minutes to fully recharge (am I being generous here?) and he would have needed to recharge at least 10 times a day to make it to 300 in one month. That would require 55 hour days to test.
    Obviously this guy somehow traversed the dimensional gap from a world which has 55 hour days and Apple did not publisize the un-changeable battery. Could he be from the Mortorola System, or the Nokia Universe? Possibly he is from the Microsoft homeworld (I know - how unlikely that Microsoft would play dirty tricks, I am just trying to be fair here...). This is obviously a cry for help. I am sure that the judge will send him home in good time, but the transportation fee might be stiff.

  4. Comment - Microsoft Aims to Replace Dial Tones with Voice-Aware Services

    0.0.5 Beta (Mar 15, 2007 - 12:19 PM)

    As far as this being an editorial - it is clear that anything that doesn't excoriate any Microsoft initiative will be viewed as a puff piece. If the tone of the article had been an editorial against Microsoft, nobody would have accused you of editorializing.

    I think this technology is more likely to be directed at the Windows Mobile technologies, with voice recognition at the desktop being secondary. I would anticipate that Microsoft will use their market edge to create standards that will tie the communications industry to Tellme technology for the forseeable future. Microsoft is not going to be content with merely enhancing Office, they want to change the way we communicate.

    In this world, the phone device need consist of no more than the speaker and the microphone; allowing you to search for numbers through your own or public online phone books or asking for information in a variety of ways. Not just communicating with people or organizations, but accessing media and information where sound (with Video) is both the input and the output. And All this with Microsoft handling the security and search.

    Now to avoid being seen as a Microsoft slut, I will insert some standard anti-microsoft rhetoric:

    Microsoft sucks - they are trying to take over the world! They won't be satisfied until they own the licensing rights to the names I will give my children; blah, blah, blah.

    end rhetoric;

  5. Comment - Microsoft Withdraws Private Folder App

    0.0.5 Beta (Jul 17, 2006 - 8:49 AM)

    I don't know why they say they pulled it. I just downloaded it from Microsoft.

    http://www.microsoft.com...-49cf-b084-f3a237b58f71

  6. Comment - Symantec Issues New pcAnywhere Beta

    0.0.5 Beta (Jan 22, 2002 - 11:47 AM)

    It has worked fine for me so far, but I don't have a need for the fast user switching and so I have not tested it in that situation. (V 3.3.3r9)