Microsoft buries two surprises in Windows 8 hype
Last week I wrote about Microsoft's new Building Windows 8 blog. The first installment, from Windows head honcho Steve Sinofsky, ran 1,247 words and told us, basically, absolutely nothing about Windows 8. The two posts that followed didn't offer much more.
The second post expounds on Windows 8 and USB 3.0. The third post, out Tuesday, reveals Windows 8's reengineered approach to copying files as it relates to dialog boxes.
Oy! Microsoft's trying to save a company whose stock has gone exactly nowhere for the past decade, revolutionize an aging product, halt Windows' slipping market share, spur corporate clients to immediate worldwide adoption, and bring an exciting new vision of Windows to the desktop, to the tablet, and to the phone -- and we're talking about dialog boxes? Clearly, Sinofsky's biding time, waiting to drop the big bombs at the Build conference on Sept. 12. In the interim, we're getting pablum. Read more...
Facebook marks pictures of a child with Down syndrome offensive
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In terms of size, social networking giant Facebook is bigger than big — over 2.7 billion comments are posted to the site each and every day. That's far more content than Facebook's 3,000 or so employees can moderate, so they largely rely on special filtering software to weed out offensive content. But that filtering process has landed Facebook in hot water after mother Diana Cornwell was forced to remove photos of her child with Down syndrome after they were flagged as offensive content. Read more...