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February 21, 2008
I'm extremely flustered with e-mail right now. When it comes to options for retrieving e-mail we have POP3 protocol or IMAP4 protocol. POP3 is basically one way and only works with the inbox and only the inbox. You can grab...
After my recent post explaining why a MSFT/YHOO merger would be good for the combined company because it would establish an obvious #2 for pay per click advertising dollars, I was pleased to learn that I was not alone in...
April 6, 2007
Microsoft has disabled some of the functionality of their search engine due to excessive resource demands caused by automated queries. Live Search's WebLog : We are flattered, but... "For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax...
March 10, 2007
Steve Borsch over at Connecting the Dots has a great article on switching his father over to a Mac from a PC after growing tired of removing spyware and adware from his father's computer. My Dad + Macintosh = Ahhh......
March 9, 2007
I find it interesting to track what makes certain posts rise to the top of the heap each month. In February, we have Slashdot to thank for picking up on Bob's Microsoft Dirty Tricks articles. A lot of Minnesota bloggers...
March 6, 2007
I followed the Microsoft prescription for fixing Exchange for the Daylight Savings Time change. The VM, on installation, asked me to set a new password and then confirm it. But after entering the new password in setup, I couldn't...
February 16, 2007
In my last post here I revealed that a former Microsoft contract worker had come to me some time ago to reveal details about the possible destruction of evidence in the Burst.com v. Microsoft case -- destruction of evidence...
February 14, 2007
Microsoft settled today its anti-trust case with the people of Iowa, which may well be the last anti-trust case against the world’s largest software company, at least in this cycle. Iowa was all that remained of the original 18 states...
January 20, 2007
I noticed in our web stats that visitors are asking whether pinging a blog will increase inbound links. Here's the short answer: Pinging your blog does not increase the number of inbound links your site receives. And here's the long-winded...
January 4, 2007
Net Application's latest newsletter included a look at year over year operating system market share as detected by their stats software installed on websites across the web. Here is what they found: Looks like a 27% increase for Macs over...
December 27, 2006
Powerpoint holds an interesting position as the most popular yet hated presentation software. Of course, the reasons for being hated have nothing to do with the software itself. They're caused by PowerPoint abuse: using a great tool to create awful...
December 21, 2006
Jeff Sandquist is from Microsoft and works on channel9.msdn.com. He was on a panel talking about evangelism success stories at GnotE. He talks about birds eating and elephants pooping. If you want to know what that means watch the...
November 16, 2006
Dear Microsoft, If I promise to listen to only independent artists, podcasts, and music ripped from CDs I own, can I get a discount on a Zune? "Microsoft is working with all major and independent labels to establish similar revenue-sharing...
October 19, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 has launched and the reviews are starting to come in. One big change in IE 7 is better integration of RSS feeds. I'm not entirely sold on the concept of being tied to a browser for RSS...
August 28, 2006
Marketwatch is reporting that Google has landed an exclusive ad deal for Ebay's international properties. Yahoo will remain Ebay's ad network of choice for the US property: eBay, Google up on ad deal - MarketWatch Shares of the largest Internet...
August 27, 2006
Om Malik reports that 17 companies are currently building web based Office applications.
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