jboomer's blog

The long awaited Xbox dashboard update is here. All I have to say is "wow". Not only has Microsoft doubled down on it's use of the MetroUI and the motion based Kinect, but they filled this update with more features than we could have hoped for. From a features perspective; they have added a search for content that is of course powered by "bing". They have also added cloud storage for games...it's not full SkyDrive capable yet and only boasts a whopping 512 Mb but it is a step in the right direction.

Well with Microsoft numbers out for this quarter, it is no surprise that Bing (Microsofts' search engine) is loosing the company fistfull after fistfull of money, with no sign of stopping. Even with Yahoo teaming up this year, it has done little to over through Googles place at the top of the search engine list. So why is Microsoft still pooring money into this sinking ship?

Now a days you can’t look at any new system without hearing about “the cloud”. What is this magical cloud that will fix all there technology problems? Well in its simplest terms the “cloud” has always referred to the internet. So what’s all the hype about? Well more and more software manufacturers and programmers are designing programs that run completely on the internet.

Over the New Year Brickwall had the opportunity to help with the office move of a prominent local Kansas City business. When they moved they also decided they were going to upgrade there phone systems. I wanted to highlight a few items that will always help in the transition.

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