Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Bing Australia: look less, find more
I happened to see last month on Channel Nine an ad for Bing. I only caught the last 5 seconds or so of it, and never saw it again. I was looking at Long Zheng’s site this morning and noticed he had a post about the Bing Australia Ads and seems that there is a series of them.
Tags: ads, bing, Microsoft, tv
Internet Explorer 6 lives until 2014
I know this is old news, but I felt like I needed to post this information. It seems that Microsoft has extended support for Internet Explorer 6 until 8th April 2014, despite campaigns to kill off IE6. If you have a look on IE Blog it states that the upgrades to newer versions are the responsibilities of the end user or the company.
The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have.
Microsoft has extended their support for Windows XP until 2014 and Internet Explorer 6 was supplied with Windows XP, so there will still be updates for another 5 years.
Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft
Windows 7 RC Screenshots
I decided to install Windows 7 RC on my laptop today. It is running quite quick and I am loving it, I don’t think I will go back to Vista anytime soon. The last version of Windows 7 I ran was the original beta (7000) that was released to the public.
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows Live Messenger 9
Email Hoaxes
I have received not only one, but two email hoaxes from friends within three days of themselves.
The first one is the good old “Bill Gates will give you money if you forward this”, the other being “Ericsson giving away free laptops”.
Now here is some of the transcript from the emails, and why they are hoaxes.
First email, Bill Gates / AOL giving away money (Seems too good to be true).
Subject: Please read!!!! This was on Oprah!
Content: THIS WAS FEATURED ON TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY – IT IS FOR REALDear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, you will regret it later.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay
you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on,
Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives
it, You will be paid $241.00. Within tw! o weeks, Microsoft will contact
you for your address and then send you a check.
Now how does Microsoft know your address and where to send the cheque too. Further down in the email, it states one person received $24,000. Bill is also putting most of his money into the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. So what makes you think your so important for Microsoft to give away money for nothing?
Tags: Ericsson, Hoax, Microsoft, SPAM
{Open Source} Heroes Happen Here
Yesterday I received my Hero Hack Pack from Microsoft, which is Microsoft’s way of getting into the Open Source community. The pack looks quite good, as you can see in the gallery. It contains a copy of Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, trial editions of course.
I’m sure Microsoft have gotten quite some publicity or bashings from trying to get a slice of the pie for the open source community. What do you think about Microsoft; Open Source or Monopoly?
Tags: Hero Hack Pack, Microsoft
Unified Communications Lauch
I received my package in the mail yesterday from Microsoft, containing the Unified Communications Launch 2007 discs. The package consisted of 2 discs, containing:
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 – Full Version
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 – Full Version
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 – Trial Version
Microsoft Office Live Meeting – Trial Version
It was quite a good pack from Microsoft promoting it products I will eventually get around to giving a go, in the meantime you can view some photos I took of the pack over in the Unified Communications Launch Gallery. There is also a current Microsoft Heroes Pack available, includes trial versions of Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 which would be quite nice.
Tags: Communinications Launch, Exchange Server, Microsoft, Windows Server 2008
Some Beta Testing
As most of you probably know, Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta has been floating around, and Microsoft just released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. I was thinking the other day of testing WLM9, and just saw about IE8 getting released, and thought what better time to test it.
I am in the process of downloading them now, and I will report back on how they work, if they crashed. If you have used either, please tell me what you thought of them.
Update: Okay, so I removed Internet Explorer 8, as it’s more of a “development” release, so some site’s didn’t want to work. On the other hand, Windows Live Messenger 9 is quite good, I’m starting to like it. Some of the new features are that if someone has a link in their display name / personal message, your able to click it now. Also another feature is the ability to have animated gif files as your display picture.
You are now also able to sign in at multiple locations, the same way you can with Skype. There is also a list of new sounds (called signature sounds) which you set, and it’s what people on your contact list here when you sign in.
Tags: Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft, Windows Live Messenger 9