Considering a Zune?
Microsoft is resorting to some questionable ways of promoting its new portable media player, the Zune. Not exactly subtle! (via Daring Fireball).
A bit of advice to Microsoft… ‘Welcome to the social’ isn’t a sentence, even if your marketing department says otherwise.
Cleartype in IE7
I’ve been testing out IE7 in Vista for the past week or so to see how it measures up against Firefox. Most of my usual web haunts seemed to look and work fine, although I’m not a big fan of the interface layout. The positioning of the stop and refresh buttons still catches me out - I guess I just have to get used to it. One thing that was definately strange was the font rendering. I couldn’t really put my finger on it until I switched back to Firefox: suddenly everything was much easier to read and less fuzzy. It turns out that IE7 in Vista uses Cleartype font rendering even if you have disabled it for Windows in general. The offending option is found in the browsers options dialog. I find Cleartype rendering horrific to read at best. I can’t understand why IE needs an independant control for this…
