June 2nd, 2009 — James
All those indexing is complete now I guess. Now the so called Kumo is out and is called bing. OK, that is my guess as of now. It looks more like a shopping related search. Probably not the best time to come out. Not many people are searching for shopping. I clicked on the fitness option. The title says “Is your workout working?” but the image shows me an ad for fitness equipment. Ad prominence is not good idea for anything. They should be as discrete as possible or blend in to the content users are looking for.
Anyway when you actually go and search, it is just like old times. MSN search.
Update: I was wrong. It was very late in the night and I did not pay much attention to other things popped up. I will come back to this subject later. But for now, there is much more to it than what I thought.
June 2nd, 2009 — James
The fight continues…
If I try to access a Silverlight application that is hosted on pretty much any web site, Chrome handles it without a problem. But when I try to access a Microsoft web site that has a Silverlight application, the webpage complains that the plugin has expired. Expired?
This is the page that complains. That page throws a message box. Not good. Now if you do not respond quick enough, Chrome will popup another message box asking if you want to stop the unresponsive plugin. Not good either. In this case it is the browser asking the question. But you never know. Message boxes should be banned from html and java script and also from all plugins. Only the browser process should dish out message boxes.
In the above page I think it was MSTECHED site ad or something that was causing the problem.
I clicked yes on the button that takes me to the Microsoft web page for downloading Silverlight. That web page says this browser is not compatible with Silverlight. Well, not according to all the Silverlight applications I have used on the web. Everything works fine.
There is a clear distinction between fair competition and animosity. These two are showing the latter with elementary school maturity.
May 28th, 2009 — James
Do you know an easy way to turn off 31 language packs in the Windows Update? Me neither. I know the hard way to do it. Right click on each one of them and select the hide option. Simple and easy, right? Or you can just install all of them and be done with it. Why don’t I leave them hanging there? Because I may not see something that I really want to install in this mess. Please get this fixed in Windows 7 at least. Forget about Windows Vista.
Update: I need to check if RC was updated, but on RTM, you can select multiple packs and hide them. Make sure you select only non hidden packs. If you mix, it won’t show the hide option.
May 27th, 2009 — James
Ok, Google logo change happened a while ago and it is not new anymore. I just noticed the similarity today. It is kind of mirror or upside down of the Microsoft Windows logo with a different shape. Blue, yellow, green and red in four squares. Was that intentional or just a coincidence?
May 24th, 2009 — James
I just installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 RC on a Shuttle xpc box. 64 bit. The first application I installed is Chrome. There is no need to add the in process plugin argument anymore to the chrome. It works just fine after the installation. This box is connected to my TV using HDMIvideo and SPDIF audio. I had Vista on it until now. Vista wouldn’t play DTS or Dolby Digital through the Denon AVI. Windows 7 played both right after the first boot. No driver installation nothing required. The display on the TV is much better than that was on Vista.