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the new xbox dashboard

Posted by Laura Dec 07, 2011 Posted in industry, technology
the new xbox dashboard People don’t like change. Anyone who has read their Facebook feed after another of many re-designs knows that Change Is Bad. New things are terrible. Technology is suspect and will probably be used for nefarious purposes. Big Brother is watching you and cyber criminals want to steal your credit card and run up a $1200 bill calling dodgy sex lines. If only we’d stuck to the old ways, living in mud huts and dying before the age of 25 without ever seeing any of the world beyond our village. We’d have been safe from all the vaccines, the airplanes and the Internet. Perhaps I got a bit too tongue in cheek there, but it’s a pretty...
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windows 8 live demo

Posted by Laura Oct 07, 2011 Posted in technology
windows 8 live demo On Wednesday my University played host to a low key live demo of the Windows 8 operating system, in a free for all lecture that took place over the course of an hour. In that time we were introduced to and shown the workings of Microsoft’s latest plaything, which left a lasting if not wholly positive impression. First, we were shown a trailer. This trailer, to be precise: Which left me feeling a bit fluttery in the stomach thinking I’d stumbled into a Windows 7 demonstration for the chronically out-of-the-loop, but no, the speaker reassured us we were indeed there to see Windows 8. After a PowerPoint presentation outlining its new...