Tag: Microsoft

  • 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…

  • Lot of travel coming up!

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    In the next few weeks I am flying to Bilbao where I have been selected to be on the prestigious jury forStartup 2.0 – an international competition judging startup companies. Then I am off to Copenhagen for Reboot 2.0 where my suggestion for a talk about the energy efficiencies in the CIX data centre has…

  • Does Silverlight kill Internet connectivity on Macs?

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    I had a problem with my MacBookPro the other day. It lost Internet connectivity. It couldn’t get an IP address from the DSL router. Restarting the router didn’t help. Nor did stopping and starting Airport or using a wired connection. At first I figured the router was fried. But then, I restarted the Mac and…