Category: Microsoft

  • Information Cards now working on Live.com (sort of!)

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    Interesting, I noticed today that you can now log into Windows Live sites (and all sites which accept Live ID credentials ) using an Information Card. This is in Beta currently. This could be a major step forward in federated identity. However, it only works on IE7 with .NET Framework 3.0 for now – hopefully…

  • Steve Ballmer mashup!

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    Kinda speaks for itself, doesn’t it? via Fake Steve Jobs

  • How long is 5 minutes in Microsoft Support time?

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    Four weeks ago tomorrow I contacted Microsoft about problems I was having with their OneCare product. I spent two hours on the phone (after trying to get it working for the previous two hours) with a Sam in tech support and we failed to get it working. Sam had me uninstall Norton (which came installed…

  • Microsoft post Vista fixes

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    Microsoft has released two significant fixes for Windows Vista today. One is a performance related fix and the other is a reliability related fix. These fixes have to be manually applied for now although according to Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is promising to make the two new Vista fix packs available via Windows Update at…

  • Could Microsoft tackle piracy through Open Source?

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    Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. Updated due to lateness of the hour when posting originally 😉 Well, despite being on holidays, Tom is not completely cut off from things technical – when I was talking…

  • Windows Live OneCare is crap

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    I have talked about what a piece of sh*t Windows Live OneCare is previously. OneCare is Microsoft’s entry into the security arena. I have serious reservations about the ethics of Microsoft selling OneCare. It suddenly gives Microsoft a financial incentive to write buggy software. You can just imagine if, up to now, there was a…

  • Microsoft Vista Service Pack 2?

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    Microsoft’s Windows Vista is a buggy product. Heck, even I found an unreported bug in it after playing with it for less than ten minutes! I was talking to Microsoft folk in Madrid last week and I said to them that I couldn’t wait for Service Pack 2 for Vista to be released. Their response…

  • Ad supported Office in the works?

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    I see Microsoft are following Google into the Advertising business with their announced purchase of aQuantive for $6bn. Advertising definitely seems to be where the money is at right now – as Michael Arrington put it earlier on TechCrunch: Google bought Doubleclick for $3.1 billion in April. Later that same month, Yahoo acquired competitor RightMedia…