Loved this new site called www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk, every weekday they publish a new educational fun cartoon. Would love to have this as a widget app. (via Legend Steve Clayton)

For the last year I have been using a Dell M1530 XPS laptop as my main computer, meanwhile all around me my other friends have been converting to the dark side (Apple ). Above is a new promo video for windows 7 from Dell (via friend and legend Steve Clayton)

Here are a few reasons why I’m happy to stay a PC guy:

• As a chap that helps run an education company for online marketing, I feel it’s helpful in numerous ways to use the same brand of operating system that over 90% of the people that we teach use themselves.
• Windows 7 has been a pleasure to use for the last 4-5 months even in release candidate version. It’s much faster than Vista and in my experience XP, and even some friends Mac’s, its easy to use, visually nice, and works with all my numerous random bits of software.
• Microsoft have now finally released a fantastic free antivirus software suite called “Microsoft Security Essentials”. Have been using it now for a few months and its the least intrusive (both notification wise and processing power wise)  anti virus software I have used.
• Great software, mostly free such as Windows Live Writer (for blogging), Photosynth, Silverlight, Microsoft Tags, and Live Mesh, inspire me and give me great hope for an even brighter future for the company.

Feel free to disagree but I’m one happy PC.

Love this little spot for UK phone store “The Carphone Warehouse”, on the history of communication. Very much like a bigger budget CommonCraft video. Found via Microsoft’s innovative blogger Steve Clayton.

Love this spot that was aired on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Fans of the show were surprised when they realized that there would be an extra two minutes of their favourite show. The two minutes was brought to them by the new decision engine Bing. Bing breaks through search overload so you can get more of what you want. Like The Daily Show. Great work by Microsoft’s new agency JWT New York p.s. Microsoft thank you for Windows 7, have been using it for a couple of months and has given me no headaches, works fast, super easy to use and looks fantastic, is even making some of my Mac friends jealous! congrats guys. To read about great Microsoft innovation in plain English check out Steve Claytons blog, and if you pre-order Windows 7 now you can get it half price !

I was born in the 80’s and I think one thing that has remained a constant in my life is the huge leaps in tech innovation that seem to happen every month.

I can remember clearly been taught when I was 7 about basic programming on BBC computers (I recall we made a game so probably not surprising I remember it), I then remember learning how to boot up programmes with DOS, then windows, and now my mobile phone can do it all and more!.

Its the same story you hear every day from friends: “But how can my new laptop be out of date? I only bought it 6 months ago!”. Well now Microsoft have shown us the above video on what they are working on for circa 2019 just to show us how out of date we will be soon. I must say my initial thought was “Holly ***t !”.

Everything shown is Microsoft’s inspirational view of what they are working towards, based on research and tech exploration from within Microsoft and their partners. Basically this is stuff we will see in some guise or another in the near future.

All the products shown are designed to improve productivity for businesses and individuals.

I personally cant wait to be able to carry around just one card that can be my everything from a wallet to a phone and in between. I also would love the huge touch video wall in my sitting room for work, video and catching up with friends (imagine the innovative parties you could have!).

The Video was first shown at the Wharton Business Technology Conference by Microsoft’s Stephen Elop a few days ago.

For more info go to Steve Clayton’s Blog from Microsoft. He’s a great chap to follow and has all the links to the full video and presentation as well as all the latest updates from Microsoft in plain English.