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Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and away

Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and awaySame old story"Results in the prior year were impacted by the deferral of $1.64 billion of revenue and operating income and $0.11 of diluted earnings per share from the second to the third quarter of fiscal 2007, due primarily to technology...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Financial accounting, Operational accounting, paragraph, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Q2 earning, Microsoft Q2

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Google cherry picks the best

Google News is cherry picking, it picks the best stories, and it picks the very best, and most valuable part of a news story: the headline, the first paragraph, and often, an accompanying photograph. As journalists we are taught to write an inverted triangle. We write news stories assuming that...

Tags: news site, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-17

Microsoft's eye on data protection

Microsoft's eye on data protectionWith All The Facetsof digital information this is a new one - 'securing digital information"". With this it isn't necesarily ,..copyrighted information ,..just 'rights for 'digital information. The explanation of just what 'Intertrusts software actually does was somewhat incohesive for detail. It is most likely the...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Paragraph, digital information, Microsoft Corp., performance, data protection

Discussion threads 2004-04-13

Additional Resources

My Notes Keeper 1.9.7 (Windows)

My Notes Keeper is ideal for storing notes, emails, images, URLs and document, etc. My Notes Keeper stores and represents your information in a comfortable and clear tabbed and tree-structured form, all items in a tree store as a note, so you can add many independent notes in one notebook....

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Note, Microsoft Windows, Wpg Computing, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Talking Clipboard 1.7.1.5 (Windows)

Talking Clipboard is a text to speech software, that can read text documents, RSS feeds and Web pages using realistic synthetic voices and can convert text to audio files for your music player. It has lots of useful features, and supports all SAPI 5 compliant voices. It can read text...

Tags: Audio, Voice, Microsoft Windows, Talking Clipboard, Keyboards, RSS, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-20

FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Pressure tactics don't always work

The key words are ..."don't always". Has always and still works for Microsoft.^o^How about an piece on DOA hard drivesIf you truly resist manufacturer pressure then I would love to see a truly objective piece on the quality and failure rates on SATA hard drives being marketed today. ...

Tags: Manufacturing, Storage management, cloud computing, Virtualization, manufacturer, DOA, hard drive, failure rate

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags

Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...

Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?

Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...

Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Memo to AT&T: When you're in a hole, stop digging

AT&T and Apple were made for each otherBoth are whiny multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporations that sell substandard products and services to customers who don't know any better. Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!You said it exactly rightquote- [b]"You see, the company thinks consumers are too dumb to know the difference between 3G and non-3G...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., 3G, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Canaware NetNotes 5.4 (Windows)

As you know, you can bookmark sites and pages, but maybe you're specifically interested in saving a particular paragraph, image, or maybe a snippet of code on a page, rather than the whole page. Canaware NetNotes, also known as web page saver, web page captor, and web page organizer, is...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Web Page, Canaware, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-10

Worm inflicts Rick Astley wallpaper on jailbroken iPhones

But... but... but... OS X is Unix! It is immune!Hmm, guess not.Now, let's list the "attacks" and then cue the double standards...1. iPhone must have the [b]worst[/b] security model out there because hackers only go after the low hanging fruit.2. I don't care [b]why[/b] no one attacks Windows Mobile, all...

Tags: Smart phones, NonZealot, Apple iPhone, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-08

Note-It 4.6.0.4 (Windows)

Enhanced desktop notes that persist Windows sessions, give you control of the look and feel, allow you to save and open notes, drag text to and from any application, and even e-mail the notes or just a selection of the note. Control the transparency of a note. Also has a...

Tags: Note, Veign, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Pixetell 1.2.10901 (Windows)

You start an e-mail, type a paragraph and realize there is far too much complexity to convey using text and attachments. You try to schedule a Web conference. Multiple schedules don't align, and now you're into next week. Time lost is opportunity lost. Avoid delays. "Say it. Show it. Send...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Schedule, Ontier, Pixetell 1.2.10901, Web Conferencing, E-mail, Productivity, Internet, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Microsoft doesn't believe Google Apps numbers

Google Apps has been picking up some steam recently -- announcing a huge deal with the city of Los Angeles, and revealing numbers that suggest over 20 million users and over 2 million companies using the service. Microsoft, on the other hand, doesn't believe the...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Schreiben 5.5 (Mac)

Most of us don't need Word. They want something more beautiful and easier-to-use than TextEdit without paying the price for an overloaded program with a mysterious look-and-feel. Schreiben German for the act of writing or a letter focuses especially on this and comes with some elaborate functions. This includes automatic...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Snippet, MOApp Software Manufactory, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-31

AbiWord 2.8.1 (Windows)

AbiWord is a lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support. It can also import Microsoft Word 97 and RTF Rich Text Format documents, as well as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, AbiSource, AbiWord, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites

Software downloads 2009-10-30

ReadTXT 1.6 (Windows)

ReadTXT can speech a paragraph of text or a text filetts. It can be play, stop momentarily. It can recognise interpunctions in Chinese, English sentences. It can recognise almost all the words of Chinese, English. It can dump speech to a specified .wav file. If you need to support more...

Tags: Speech, TimeSpaceLink Software, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-29

ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!

Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Microsoft drops 'Family Guy' special

Viewers watch Family Guy because they want tonot because it's forced in to their cubicles at work.That doesn't fit with the Windows brand, indeed.MSFT tried to alter the content of the show"Microsoft sent MacFarlane and Fox several notes expressing their concern over the show's content but ultimately decided just to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Family Guy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-27