Category: Microsoft

  • More bad news for Vista

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    According to an article in InformationWeek, a privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in Windows Vista. The vulnerability was reported to Microsoft by eEye Digital Security on the 19th of January. Marc Maiffret, Chief Hacking Officer of eEye said: with this vulnerability, you can elevate yourself to system-level access. Any normal user can do anything…

  • The real reason why Vista isn't selling?

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    Wow! Avowed Microsoft fanboy, Chris Pirillo, is dumping Windows Vista and reverting to Windows XP! I’m “upgrading” from Windows Vista to Windows XP. I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best. This is a serious blow for Microsoft – the fact that someone so publicly…

  • Windows Live Hotmail – when branding goes bad!

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    There is a post today on the Hotmail team blog called We Heard You Loud and Clear. In the post, Richard Sim, Hotmail’s senior product manager says: As we prepare to launch the final version of our new web mail service, we recognize the importance of ensuring that our 260+ million existing customers come over…

  • Windows Mobile Edition 6 – no RSS support?

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    Endgadget are reporting that Microsoft has announced Windows Mobile Edition 6 – Microsoft’s operating system for mobile phones. According to the article, the major new features of WME6 are HTML support in email Windows Live for Windows Mobile File transfer capability in Windows Live Messenger New versions of mobile Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with…

  • More lies from Bill Gates about Vista

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    I see Bill Gates has been caught lying about Vista again. Once could have been a slip but when it starts to happen again and again, you have to start to think it is intentional. What do you think, is he really that clueless? Or is he deliberately spreading FUD

  • "An operating system has never had parental control features before" – Bill Gates

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    “An operating system has never had parental control features before” Bill Gates came out with this incredible statement two and a half minutes into the following interview on NBC http://www.youtube.com/v/BO1pvWUELIUReally Bill? So how do you explain this screenshot of the built-in Parental Controls on my Mac? There have been Parental Controls on the Mac for…

  • "People should just buy a cd and rip it"

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    In a previous post on Digital Rights Management (DRM) I said: DRM is an evil, market restricting, anti-consumer device (why shouldn’t I be able to play DVDs bought in the US on my DVD player in Ireland?) It seems I have an unlikely ally – Bill Gates! At a meeting in Microsoft with bloggers yesterday…

  • it@cork 2006 Conference – Jacques-Etienne Grandjean

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    Jacques-Etienne Grandjean is the Senior Director, Comm Sector Western Europe of Microsoft. Jean-Etienne’s presentation title is “Are Desktop Applications the way of the past?” Jacques-Etienne is unfortunately doing a sales job on Microsoft Live rather than addressing the actual title of his talk. Not once, even when discussing search, did he mention any of Microsoft’s…