How did your site look in 1997?

Posted by BA on Jan 6, 2012 in Apple, Google, Internet, Microsoft | 0 comments

I just came across this amazing web archive. If you had a website several years ago or you want to see how your favorite websites looked like a decade back, this is your best bet. I just dug up and found the face of my websites and it was really great to visit so many websites back in time. For example, this is how the Google logo looked like back in 1998/1999.

And this is how Apple’s website looked like in 1997.

Is it Microsoft vs Apple all over again? HP Pulls the plug on Web-OS.

Posted by BA on Aug 19, 2011 in Apple, Google, Microsoft | 0 comments

The news is spreading fast that HP is discontinuing the Web-OS device operations. While this news needs more detailed analysis and we have a long way to go but we are left with lesser number of players when it comes to operating system for the hand-held devices. Google, Apple, RIM and Microsoft are the four major operating system developers. While RIM and Google are no naive souls, I can’t rule out the possibility of a Microsoft vs Apple battle again a few years down the road if these two can eliminate Google and RIM from the race. With Microsoft’s strategic alliance with Nokia and Apple’s discontinued success story gives rise to the support for this possible traditional rivalry coming to the Smartphone and Tablet’s world soon.

Windows 7 phones in Lahore now -HTC HD-7

Posted by BA on Dec 2, 2010 in HTC, Microsoft, Smartphones | 0 comments

Windows 7 mobile is creating news everywhere. Mobilink today has announced HTC HD-7 and it is exclusively available on Mobilink. The phone has quite good specs and what’s new is … errrrm…  Windows 7. You can get this great phone from Mobilink office for Rs. 55,999. You can get detailed specs of the phone here.

Internet Explorer-I did not expect they’ll promote it on the roads

Posted by BA on Nov 15, 2010 in Internet Explorer, Microsoft | 0 comments

Microsoft’s latest advertisement on Karachi road-side kind of astonished me. It’s  nothing strange but it’s really unusual. Is this really time to move on to IE 9 beta? I’m not an IE fan but this ad seems to be working … downloading now

And if you cannot read the link on the board, its http://www.microsoft.com/pakistan

** UPDATE **

And that’s a put-off for those who have not upgraded to Windows 7 yet. The download link only gives you an option to download it for Windows 7 32bit or 64bit. No options for a download for Vista or earlier versions.