Alt-This.com - your technology podcast

Jeff says we're back, I say we never really left. Sure, we stopped bitching and moaning to you about the daily tech grind but we still did it amongst ourselves. Do you want to know why we're back? I'll tell you why, Jeff has a lot of pent up frustrations at work and he wants to take them out on you. Sure, it doesn't help that every woman he runs into in California is nothing but a flake, making his life miserable and making him our version of John C. Dvorak. He's ready to bitch about Windows Vista, the new Office suite and the discontinuation of his favorite flavor of coffee at the evil empire Starbucks. Oh yeah, if you ARE a nice girl in her early twenties in the Bay Area we want to hear from you!

I must say that not much about Windows Vista is making me think it's going to be worth the hassle at least initially. When Vista was first announced it sounded like an ambitious move in a new direction that was going to bring all kinds of new functionality to the Windows experience. The end result seems to be more like XP with prettier icons and higher system requirements. There are without a doubt some very useful tools for the network administrator deploying and managing Vista in large scale corporate environments but that doesn’t help the home user or even the power user who has a couple of machines at home out all that much. The "clarification" of the license agreement which limits your license of Vista to one move to a new machine is also a pain in the ass for the power user. Microsoft has completely lost touch with it's more advanced user base and that's a shame because that is the group of people who are out there every day pushing Microsoft products to the masses.

You only thought we were dead and gone! We are currently gearing up to bring Alt-This.com back to the web. Our informative weekly technology podcast will cover the latest technology news, cool web sites, and much more. Darren and I will also be posting blog articles covering additional content that doesn't make our podcast. Be sure to check back soon for the first new episode!