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The first Office 2007 Service Pack 1 beta is out

The first Office 2007 Service Pack 1 beta is outoffice 2007 sphopefully they'll address the speed issues. all of the code i've written takes twice as long to run in office 2007 than it does in office 2003.Things includedBetter support for VSTO ver 3.More complete Object Model documentation for coding.Better...

Tags: service pack, Bloat Farm, bloatware, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows XP, memory, Office 2007 Service Pack 1 beta, Microsoft Office, processor

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

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Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via Update

Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via UpdateIt's the .NET Framework Assistant 1.1...The description says:"Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET framework versions to the web server."Oooh.. Sounds ominous...Heavy flow day?.RE: Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via UpdateJoe Brockmeier you are an idiot. What extension? What does it...

Tags: Firefox extension, Microsoft Corp., blog

Discussion threads 2009-05-31

Minimizing XP SP3 woes

Minimizing XP SP3 woesWhat did you expect......it to be as easy as apt-get ? ;]:)RE: Minimizing XP SP3 woesThats a lot of work to install a service packThemes are a problem.If your theme has replaced the logon screen the one with the animated vertical bars you have to remove...

Tags: Firewalls, Microsoft Windows XP, XP SP3, Minimizing XP SP3 woe, Minimizing XP SP3, firewall

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating systemIn the long run, Live services...will not make the big splash everyone is hoping for. Individual consumers may find it useful but Enterprises will move the services back in house. Especially with Open Source providing more and better services that can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Internet, Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, cloud computing, Google Inc., computing, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Inside one PC buyer's mind (aka: A message for Michael Dell, Microsoft and other PC makers)

Inside one PC buyer's mind (aka: A message for Michael Dell, Microsoft and other PC makers)Interesting concept"But, the more I think about it, the more I realize that Sue is 100 percent right to not know what operating system she's using."Too bad, to not know there are alternatives to the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), RAID, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Bloatfarm, PC

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Citrix + XenSource: Microsoft's worst nightmare or dream-come-true?

Citrix + XenSource: Microsoft's worst nightmare or dream-come-true?Looks like the giant is starting to loseit's teeth and influence! I mean if their own partner is going to pull a Microsoft on them! You know, get in all chummy then stab them in the back! So now karma returns... ]:)Hard to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Citrix Systems Inc., XenSource Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Office feature bloat is no skin off my nose

Office feature bloat is no skin off my noseI agree. All software vendors try to fool us this way!I do whole heartedlly agree: Take notice at Apple adding features to it's Operating System, Microsoft does the same to Windows, Adobe Photoshop, Quark, AutoCAD, Pagemaker.These software vendor's problem are [i]that when...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-04-26

News to know: Apple shines; Microsoft search exodus; Flex goes open source

Notable headlines: IBM to wed game chip with mainframes.David Berlind: Google gets an F for planned weekday disruption to Google Calendar. Google does the right thing: Cancels weekday outtage of Google Calendar.Microsoft responds to commentary regarding Office bloat.Mary Jo Foley: Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits.Photos: Stellar views...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Tool helps programs befriend Vista

Tool helps programs befriend VistaThree Vista Stories every day on ZDNETWhy? This is an OS not scheduled to come out for 7 months. Why do we need three new stories on it every day?it's not enoughvista is still insecure and prone to buffer overload attacks.Add the bloat...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, vista, tool

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

Writing an end to the bio of BIOS

Writing an end to the bio of BIOSWhat are the other companies alternate solutionsWhat solutions are they working on and will document, or do they see even a need to change the old solution? What do they want to produce?MS and replacing BIOS? I smell disaster.Not that BIOS has...

Tags: BIOS, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-12-30