Archive for the “Microsoft” category

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

by Tony Hung on July 13, 2009

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) (…)

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* Will Diggers Leave If Digg Is Acquired By Microsoft?

by Tony Hung on March 7, 2008

… 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 (…)

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

by Tony Hung on February 21, 2008

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. (…)

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Tafiti: Slick and Somewhat Unusable

by Tony Hung on August 21, 2007

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 (…)

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Why Vista Enrages Me

by Tony Hung on August 11, 2007

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 (…)

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