Microsoft’s software engineers are “working hard” on a slimmed-down version of Windows XP for the One Laptop Per Child project, but company officials say there is still much work to be done. James Utzschneider, GM of Marketing and Communications of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group, says in his blog that contrary to earlier media reports [...]
December 6th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "microsoft"
Mozilla Takes A Page Out Of MS Book
It wasn’t too long ago that FireFox 2.0.0.10 was released to the public. Now, just a few short days later, Mozilla releases 2.0.0.11 to what can only be described as (A Patch To Fix A Patch) I’ve spent some time browsing around to try and figure out what it is they changed and I simply [...]
December 1st, 2007 | Jeffro | 6 comments | Continued
Attenda Picks Up Miomi.com Hosting Deal
Attenda Limited (www.attenda.net), the Always On Managed Services Company, today announced that it has signed a new 3 year contract to host and manage Miomi.com.
Recently named as one of Microsoft’s five UK tech companies to watch in 2008 and heralded as the UK’s answer to Skype and YouTube, Miomi.com has the ambition to democratise time [...]
Steve Ballmer On Search And More
This is a video clip of John Battelle asking Steve Ballmer questions relating to search. Steve describes search the way he and Microsoft sees it. In his outline of a successful search strategy, he pretty much describes the way Google does it. Go figure! It’s an interesting interview that goes beyond search. For example, John [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Windows Home Server Now Available
Just an FYI for those interested. Windows Home Server is now available to the public for purchase. Windows Home Server software, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, Best Buy.com, Buy.com, Circuit City.com and CompUSA.com. According to Microsoft, Windows Home Server will be shipped to customers and available via other leading retailer Web [...]
November 5th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
Time For A New Poll
Wow. According to YOU, blogging is not dying.
Is Blogging Really Dying?
* No (77%, 27 Votes)
* Yes (23%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 35
I chose this particular question because at the beginning of October, Techmeme was launched which caused a bunch of bloggers to confirm that blogging will be killed off thanks to Techmeme. Not sure what [...]
Image Previews In Win XP
Each time I reformat my machine, one of things I like to do is make sure I enable Image Previews within the MyComputer windows explorer view. Each time I want to enable this feature, I can’t seem to remember the process. Here, I’ll document the option you need to change to make sure this feature [...]
October 23rd, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Microsoft Updates Live Search Engine
Microsoft has updated is LIVE search engine today. The updates were focused around the core search technology as well as the vertical search areas of entertainment, shopping, local and health. Collectively, these improvements mark a quality milestone based on the company’s focus on delivering a better search experience for consumers and advertisers.
Here are some [...]
First Big Move For Silverlight
According to AppScout, Microsoft has signed it’s first major deal involving Silverlight, Microsoft’s competitor to the Adobe Flash Player. The deal took place with Internap Network Services Corporation. The company will equip websites of several large radio groups with the Silverlight media player. Radio stations that will be participating in this deal include, Citadel Communications, [...]
September 12th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
Skype Blaming Redmond For Outage
After initially telling users that the downtime experienced last week was due to an authentication glitch, Skype is now blaming Microsoft for the downtime. Here is the supposedly real reason why their service went down:
“The disruption was initiated by a massive restart of our user’s computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as [...]
