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Spoke Too Soon About XP SP3?
Blog Comment I already had XP SP3 RC1 installed, so I followed MS instructions to remove it first. On completion my computer properties showed that I only had XP SP2 installed. So, firstly since installing SP3 RC1, I was apparently unable to install any further...
[February 21, 2008, 23:52]
Microsoft Sees Online Future For Works
Talkback I agree with the previous guy, i had to reinstall windows (it messed itself up again) and i had to call up the activation line to get my product activated, i was asked a few pointless questions, and after a few quick lies i had my activation code.
[September 15, 2006, 17:10]
Microsoft Adds IP Indemnity To Linux Fight
Talkback I also have to add, that if MS had faith that it's product could sell by it's self in a fair an competitive maner it wouldn't need to run around trying to sue anyone who had a website or name that sounded faintly like it's self.ex, Lindows, Mike...
[November 11, 2004, 8:43]
Microsoft: We Took MikeRoweSoft Too Seriously
Talkback This was innocent though, and I am sure, if they had offered him to purchase the domain name for a free 1year MSDN subscription, he would have taken it. That way MS wouldn't have had to spend a dime, and Mike Rowe would have been given...
[February 27, 2004, 16:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News MS showed a video to the American court that's trying the anti-monopoly case, and a sharp-eyed prosecutor spotted that it had been fiddled. MS was caught bang to rights, and had to admit it. In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang...
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog MS showed a video to the American court that's trying the anti-monopoly case, and a sharp-eyed prosecutor spotted that it had been fiddled. MS was caught bang to rights, and had to admit it. In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang...
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
SP2 To Be Forced Out
Talkback When he took off all the SP2 shit I've had no problems for at least 5 months now so there is no way in hell that I'm going to allow MS SP2 back onto my system again. I even had to get a computer tech in to fix my computer.
[March 5, 2005, 11:18]
SP2's Firewall Is Not Good Enough
Talkback Neil Roy wrote: "In fact, when I first installed SP2, I had ZoneAlarm (free version) running, SP2 detected this and it automatically DISABLED Windows Firewall. As for the notion thas MS is in a no win situation, if they did not try to bundle...
[March 31, 2005, 7:06]
An Impressive Week With Ubuntu
Blog It also had "Evolution Mail" installed, but I have no desire to have to learn yet another mail client, and to have to switch back and forth from that to Thunderbird on my Windows laptop, so I just downloaded and installed Thunderbird, no problem.
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
Emergency Sausage Incident Shames BT
News I have had calls from 20-year-olds and people in their 70's," an exasperated Ms MckEnzie told The Guardian. I had so many that in the end I had to put my answer machine on because the line was being inundated.
[May 5, 2000, 9:11]
Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users
Talkback As someone that has seen both sides of the coin, I know that this can be somewhat annoying and yes, while I do like Windows *gasp*, I believe that this is just another example of jerk tactics from MS.
[February 26, 2005, 18:51]
Microsoft: Office '10 Years Ahead' Of OpenOffice
Talkback After years of MS Office failure to support previous versions of it's own .DOC format, after countless hours of migraine-inspiring overtime trying to troubleshoot why MS Word refused to stop padding the documentation with useless background data...
[March 16, 2006, 0:43]
Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users
Talkback Furthermore, everyone of them has had instances where MS updates have resulted in downtime because a required security patch "broke" a critical application that they could not find a UNIX-based version of.
[February 26, 2005, 19:33]
Major Bug In MS Excel 2007
Blog Comment If I were running a company critical application on a spreadsheet, I'd really want to know what had happened, how it had been fixed, what the chances are of knock-on or related problems, and so on. I've left a request for more info on the MSDN blog...
[October 11, 2007, 13:16]
EC Gets Stuck In To XP Embedded
Talkback Or that it costs money, and the MS offering is apparently free (since you paid for it when you bought the operating system - or more likely, when you bought the machine which had it pre-installed. Quote: "I do not understand what gives the EU or...
[April 14, 2004, 18:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I think I'm forgiven). At developers' conferences now, the independent software houses queue up to ask MS what it isn't going to develop - because nobody can afford to risk competing with the robocops from Redmond.
[May 16, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I think I'm forgiven). At developers' conferences now, the independent software houses queue up to ask MS what it isn't going to develop - because nobody can afford to risk competing with the robocops from Redmond.
[May 16, 1998, 7:00]
Interoperability And The Binary ODF Conversion Dilemma
Talkback But what i do know is that Sun and IBM have had the binary blueprints since early 2006. Fortunately the reverse engineering and conversion of the MS binary formats is a sector as rich with success as it is rife with MS inspired turmoil, confusion...
[February 29, 2008, 7:24]
Microsoft Sued Over Use Of 'Forefront' Name
Talkback I agree 100% that MS should not use this name, but as for the point made already, MS themselves have had to suffer precedent - and in direct oppostion! Not defending MS, but I think it would be far worse if MS took C+D's app ideas and reengineered...
[September 21, 2006, 2:36]
Gates Takes A Side-swipe At Apple, Linux Security
Talkback And if linux is so un-secure why hasn't anyone hacked google and had all 10,000 of their boxes doing DOS attacks on SCO/MS etc? And I wish MS would stop harping on about people not upgrading to the latest patch all the time when they know perfectly...
[January 27, 2004, 18:04]
