Finally our friends from Redmond, WA just released the long waited update to their Live Sync for Mac. This tool if you never played with it, has some pretty cool features. It allows you to sync folders you choose between computers in real time, mac or pc and the best part, it is FREE.

Microsoft took over FolderShare, the creator of this cool idea and merge this technology with their existing Sync framework. For the Mac users, this is an incredible tool, but it stopped working a few months ago after Apple released 10.6 (Snow Leopard). But now a few months after the Windows team just launched a fix that bring this tool back to the hands of the mac users! Thanks Redmond folks for not letting us out!

Windows 7 released the official final version of his operative system. We tried and so far works pretty well although we still see the same clumsiness we always feel with this OS, specially in terms of the UI. It requires users to authorize pretty much every single time all the actions slowing down the working process because of security. Why asking the user by default every single time they launched an application they previously agree to open, non sense.

Also there are some weirs black outs - flashes when you install new applications, it just makes the user think something wrong is happening to the computer. We still can't figure out why MS can't find a better way of communicating with their users through the interface. you think by now they should master the interface but they still struggle to get original good ideas well implemented. We tested the applications built with Real Software and we didn't find any issues although some screen handling refresh issues were noticed.