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MS OS Running Your Home? Be Afraid!
Talkback I saw some of the CE show demos and was gobsmacked by the idea anyone would allow MS Windows to run a house? Not an MS way of working. MS have not the first idea of resilient integrated systems, their OS can barely hang together for a decent...
[January 10, 2007, 15:40]
File Formats - MS V OpenOffice
Talkback For older versions of MS formats Microsoft made the National Archives (UK) use Vista running Windows Virtual PC running Windows 3.11 running Office 95 (which all require licences per machine). OpenDocument (ODT), Open Office (SXW), MS Word 6.0/95...
[January 30, 2008, 8:20]
MS Audio 4.0 Will Eat MP3...
News Security is what the music industry is looking for, so obviously MS Audio is important. I compared an MP3 file created in Xing software recorded at low/normal VBR mode and compared it to a 32Kbit MS Audio file.
[April 14, 1999, 15:36]
MS Office 2007 Does Fully Support OOXML
Talkback MS Office 2007 produces a very good implementation of OOXML. In fact he immplementation of MS Office 2007 of OOXML is a lot better than any existing implementation of ODF. MS Office 2007 implementation of OOXML is may not 100% perfect which...
[February 28, 2008, 12:48]
MS Should Be Accountable
Talkback You do business with MS, they should be accountable. And I say full credit to you, Pressell.
[February 22, 2007, 10:52]
MS Stays Behind.
Talkback People are getting smarter and are looking beyond MS products for solutions. Microsoft started out behind and remain so. Apple innovates, Microsoft imitates. They buy up companies and claim their IP, turning it into a Microsoft product.
[January 10, 2008, 8:37]
MS .doc Bug Hibernates On Net
News The Google search engine reports that there are over half a million MS Word .doc files presently available for download from dot-com Web sites. US Government Web sites also appear vulnerable to these potential legacy leaks with some 240,000 MS Word...
[May 7, 2002, 14:33]
MS And Mozilla Make Deal On RSS
Talkback MS no longer has the clout to pull this off single handledly. Interesting.
[December 18, 2005, 0:50]
MS Office 2007 DOES Write OOXML As Its Default Format
Talkback Of course MS Office 2007 default format is OOXML. It has XML schema which allow XML dation so you can actually verify that MS Office does support OOXML very well. [quote]Office 2007 can read OOXML (so it is said), but certainly can't write it.
[February 28, 2008, 19:19]
MS-Windows Only
Member Review This product depends on an active-x applet, and is therefore MS-Windows only. If you happen to be in a MS-Windows environment and if you do not manage the images and video yourself (e.g.place the image on a website), this can be a nice camera.
[December 19, 2006, 13:07]
MS HPC
Talkback Where MS HPC makes sense is where for whatever reasons Linux is too expensive in time or people. If you're a small company with no Linux expertise, lots of Windows smarts and a particular HPC requirement, then you don't mind the inefficiencies or...
[April 11, 2007, 16:53]
US Report: Experts - MS Paying Fortune In Legal Fees
News But as the MS-DOJ case widens in scope, the numbers of lawyers taking part has also climbed, the source said. The software giant is simultaneously in litigation with government trustbusters, Caldera Corp.
[September 29, 1998, 15:25]
Intel Rolls Out Four Low-power Pentium Ms
News The new chips include two ultralow-voltage Pentium Ms with clock speeds of 1.1GHz and the 1GHz and a low-voltage chip in the same family that runs at 1.4 GHz. One sign of this is that they need less cooling than other Pentium Ms.
[July 21, 2004, 12:15]
More On The MS Linux Patent Kerfuffle
Blog I keep trying to give MS the benefit of the doubt - I really do - but the company's not making it easy. And as to why MS isn't divulging details: "We do go into more detail and talk about specific patents in discussions that we have with companies...
[May 15, 2007, 19:48]
Hacker Scams Are Down The Priority List Compared To MS Vista Itself
Talkback Nice one MS We needed a Gateway laptop with Vista Business, but at Best Buy could only purchase with Vista Home preinstalled along with an "upgrade disc which will enable online upgrade". We were not given the option of upgrading to a business...
[February 27, 2007, 11:20]
We Expect This From MS Though...
Talkback This was to be expected.anyone who has had a long relationship with using MS products know that this is to be expected within a week or two of launch. Admin staff by the dozens know to stay WELL clear of new MS products as they will have security...
[December 12, 2006, 17:14]
Microsoft To Attack MP3 With MS Audio 4.0
News Microsoft could announce its MS Audio 4.0 technology as soon as its Windows Hardware Engineering conference in early April, according to sources. MS Audio 4.0 could potentially create music files that are about half the size of MP3 files and with...
[March 18, 1999, 9:38]
Don't Pirate MS-Office: Use Ours, Says OpenOffice.org
Talkback Well, there is always the Mozilla calendar app and while it may not be as automatic and hand holding as MS Outloo it is free.
[May 5, 2006, 21:51]
A Look At MS's Next OS
News Exclusive MS-DOS applications and real-mode drivers no longer work. Earlier in the week, Betanews.com and another online tester site, Activewin.com, were reporting that Microsoft planned to release a build of Millennium before the weekend was over.
[July 26, 1999, 7:46]
Intel Delivers Cheaper Pentium Ms
News The 700 series Pentium Ms are made with new underpinnings: a 90-nanometre processor design dubbed Dothan, which Intel has said offers a performance boost over its preceding Pentium M design dubbed Banias.
[June 23, 2004, 16:20]
