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Microsoft Media Center 2005 Reviewed
Thomas Hawk writes "Microsoft is set to release their new Media Center 2005 by none other than Bill Gates himself in Los Angeles tomorrow. In advance of this announcement, the New York Times (registration required) is running
an article on the new product today. The article says that the quality of the MCE television has generally been received as inferior to rival and competitor TiVo. I wrote a review on the new MCE 2005 last week called MCE 2005, Underwhelmed. I'm offering
continuing media coverage of MCE 2005."
M$ center is a joke, use mythtv instead.
Just like the amateurs at Google©.
...", again laughing; then the line was dead. Mind you, we are paying > 80,000 USD per month in AdSense-fees.
let's face the facts:
- Google© is the favourite search engine for terrorists, paedophiles, communists, neo-nazis and George W. Bush (the latter commenting: "Whew, this is tricky!" when confronted with the confusing user interface of Google©)
- Google© has long ago sold out to AOL Time Warner; the next round of IPO will increase their shares and they are likely to achieve a total majority of shares by the end of 2005.
- Gmail fails to meet the standard of users above Novice-level; those who are used to the comfort of a sophisticated email-client, like Microsoft Outlook, connected to a powerful and secure server-side solution, like Microsoft Exchange. When I called the Google©-helpdesk ("Hoogle") and asked for POP3 and IMAP support, I heard the insulting sound of muffled laughter, then a "Sorry, we really don't
- Gmail still does not work fully with less sopisticated browsers, such as Mozilla and Firefox. This may be caused by lacking standards-support in these browsers. Fortunately, barely nobody uses these nowadays, so the problem can safely be ignored for the time being. After all, the standard user-agent for web access is the mature and secure Internet Explorer
- Google©'s investment in Doubleclick.com and other "online marketing" agencies is a dubious move; personally, I can live with text-only advertising as practised by Google© so far, but our company ads are exclusively deployed using latest Macromedia Flash technology, because this simply is what our professional customers expect of us
- The ethical credibility of Google© has been on the decline since a new employee of Google© (a "noogler", according to the company-internal nomenclatura, or "Goospeak") has leaked some disturbing information regarding cruel rituals of initiation, including gross acts of homoerotic sexuality, horses and mutants. However, law authorities are now more alert towards Google©, since the so called FAGACT has passed the Californian legislative. Trivia: the percentage of heterosexual Google©-employees has reached an all-time low of << 0.09% as of an assessment on 2004-08-22.