Category: Microsoft
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Etrawler Ltd owner of Car Trawler and Argus Carhire.com could learn a lot from Easycar!
The letter wants me to remove a comment by a user calling himself Timmythedog on my post about issues I had with car rental company Easycar. The comment says: You need to pick and choose – we’ve never had a problem with Easy Car but be aware of Argus Car hire and their supplier National…
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Worldwide Telescope launches half-baked!
Microsoft launched their much-hyped WorldWide Telescope this morning. The application has a lot of promise as an educational tool, in that it can make astronomy fun and engaging. First off, there is no Mac version. Boo! For this reason alone, I should have just walked away. But I didn’t because it promised so much and…
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Live Maps Bird's Eye now includes (some) Irish towns
Via Clare Dillon the Virtual Earth blog and Martha Rotter on Twitter I spotted that Microsoft’s Live Maps now includes images of Cork, Galway, Carlow, Limerick, Navan & Wexford – cool! The Bird’s Eye button becomes active when you are over an area that Microsoft has detailed aerial imagery of. The image below is of…
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Get off your high horse Ed!
There was a big bruhaha on the intertubes over the weekend when Apple ran its software update on Windows and offered the Safari 3.1 browser download as the default selected option. Now I am not for a second condoning this kind of behaviour. I believe opt-in is the only way to do optional updates, especially…
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Vista SP1 To cause more problems than it cures?
Microsoft have published a list of programs which it says will be broken by Vista SP1 according to a story on News.com. The applications listed are not the only ones which will be broken it seems and Microsoft is advising anyone who encounters problems to: first restart their PC and, if they still encounter problems,…
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Microsoft embracing 'Open' – can a leopard change its spots?
In a surprise announcement yesterday, Microsoft vowed to increase the openness of its key products! Yes this is still February, April 1st is several weeks away yet! So what did Microsoft say in this release? Well, Specifically, Microsoft is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: (1) ensuring open…
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Microsoft gives development software free to (some) students
Microsoft announced a program called DreamSpark recently. DreamSpark is a program to give over $2,000 worth of Microsoft development software to students free! The free software available to students includes: Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition XNA Game Studio 2.0 12-month free membership in the XNA Creators Club Expression Studio, which…
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Yahoo! indirectly upping the cost of acquisition for Microsoft?
Microsoft made an offer of $44.6bn for Yahoo! recently which Yahoo! rejected saying it “substantially undervalues†the company (personally I think it waaaaay overvalued Yahoo! and Microsoft caught a lucky break that the offer was spurned). The New York Times is reporting today though that Microsoft are determined to follow through on this. However, both…