Category Archives: Microsoft

Will Microsoft Use Office 10 To Push Internet Explorer and Silverlight?

In advance of the inevitable blogging orgy around Microsoft’s Office 10, only a couple of questions I’d like answered:
Will Office 10 work “better” in Internet Explorer, and will it require Silverlight to work?  It would be fascinating (and stupid) if Microsoft made that the case, but I suppose, perhaps, that its no different than Google [...]

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* Will Diggers Leave If Digg Is Acquired By Microsoft?

… and what about Google?  I think there’s one intangible that not enough people are yammering about with respect to new rumours that Digg maybe bought out — and that is, what happens to the community?  These are either geeks are geek wannabe’s that make up the Community at large (large “c”), irrespective of how [...]

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Jeebus Frackin’ … Come, Freakin’ *ON*, Microsoft!

You may have heard that Vista SP1 is coming / has come / will destroy you / devour small animals / capture all of your bases. There’s some more news that installing it will likely render even *MORE* programs unusable.
Well, if you could see me now, my eyes have rolled so far back into [...]

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Tafiti: Slick and Somewhat Unusable

Microsoft released Tafiti recently, and its is new “visual” type of search engine that rides on the Silverlight engine.  Hearing that its a slick piece of work (and being the kind of person who likes to try slick pieces of work), I checked out this slick piece of web candy.
Hey, did I mention how slick [...]

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Why Vista Enrages Me

I’d like to think of myself as pro-Microsoft.  I know it has its fair share of detractors amongst the geek community (at last poll: 95% of them, which had an error rate of +/- 5%), but I figure as long as you know what you’re getting into, as I feel I do (most times) it [...]

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