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So, the Big Nerd is officially retiring today as head of Microsoft (or M$ if you are so inclined). I was just wondering how the majority of technophiles feel about him and how they will remember his reign. Personally, I view it as an over all positive. Sure, in recent years, MS products have...

Record EU Fine for Microsoft I know there is already a thread about this. I want to have a more reasoned discussion. I completely agree that Microsoft broke the rules and they are being fined because of it. My real question is this: Should dominating the market require you to do things to...

Yahoo! has rejected the merger offer of $44.6-Billion as being too low. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4271740 I have one question: WTF?

Article here, and another here. He doesn't, however, got grammar with him. Somehow, I don't think he's thought his cunning plan through.

Is there a date? They keep extending the date where they are willing to sell it. Just wondering.

About two months ago we had a power surge & bang went my computer. I took it to C.C.T computers near me (they are supposed to be a reliable company) They replace the power supply & the motherboard (they installed an asrock P4i65G motherboard) They informed me that the hardware has a 3 month...

I have an old version of Messenger on one of my PCs, not a very old one but the one before it changed to Live! or whatever it is now. Anyway, I don't use it much as I'm always on my laptop but tonight I am working on this PC and needed to sign into Messenger urgently to catch a friend before he...

Microsoft Takes On The Free World Hm.

My computer is quite comfortable with this site again thank goodness, but it has now decided to be very awkward about another! Dolphin Tech Support sent instructions about how to find a 'Dr Watson' report, which is apparently created whenever Internet Explorer comes up with a window which says...

this post is done with Microsoft's speech. while it's not perfect , it does seem to save a lot of time when you see by Samsung Q1, which has no keyboard . does anyone else use Microsoft speech and if so do you have any tips and tricks?

They're "champing" at the bit (OK so English isn't Computerworld's strong suit, big surprise) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9009143&intsrc=hm_ts_head

I have been trying this for a while--how do you get an X-bar symbol for a mean? I looked in symbols, but nothing. :( Is there a particular set I should check? Short of wasting a whole line doing this, anyway: _ X Thanks! Bug

So, I have access to a copy of the final version of Vista. I only have one computer that I feel could really run it and it's my primary. Do I back up seven ways from Sunday and give it a try or do I let someone else play the early adopter?

Here's a lovely little site that digs at Microsoft's latest browser, IE7: http://www.msfirefox.com/microsoft-firefox/index.html Enjoy!

I have Office on my PC, but lost the disk and cover that had the licence on it. Somewhere in the PC should be a file with that licence in it. Anybody know where that file would be or how to access it?

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060195313%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060195313&RS=DN/20060195313 http://techdirt.com/articles/20060831/144251.shtml If I'm reading this patent application correctly...

Can anyone recommend some good Microsoft listservs? If you know of some outstanding general computer listservs, I'd appreciate those too.

Wow. This is some goooood stuff. :D It gets better. Oh boy, this is a good article. Read the whole thing here.

My company needs someone to pass this exam by the end of the year. I was told about this today, and also informed I am said person. I have a 1000 page book that I'm going through now (SQL Server 2000 System Administration self-paced training kit, 2nd edition). Three other people in my company...

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This seems to be a bizarre thing to do. They're saving $80 million a year by annoying their staff, who have (up to now) been famously loyal and hard working. Microsoft bring in over $100 million a day. What is going on in the minds of their HR people? Full story

according to this, anyway. http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html Microsoft is funding SCO to attack Linux. It is not content to just take on Linux in the market place, it has to resort to underhand tactics. A virtual monopoly is not enough. It is to control everything. Take...

Microsoft admits 'critical' flaw http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

United States Patent #6,665,867 December 16, 2003 Self-propagating software objects and applications

http://www.theregister.com/content/6/34955.html "In what could easily be mistaken for an Onion story, Microsoft has unleashed the full fury of its lawyers on 17-year-old Canadian high-school student, Mike Rowe, demanding the handover of his Internet domain. The domain? MikeRoweSoft.com. No...

Microsoft is being sued by Burst.com over its use of instant-on streaming technology which Burst patented. This technology appears to be in Windows Media Player 9 and the latest versions of RealPlayer and QuickTime. From the article Stupid Microsoft Tricks by Robert X. Cringely . . . Burst...

Somebody out there will hopefully be able to walk me through this. I have the JREF database in Access 2000. I didn't create it; it was already here when I started at the foundation. One of the fields on both the membership form and the potential members form is for the email address. Scrolling...

Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13100775 Microsoft has made a big deal out of asserting that Linux is not fit for the enterprise. But Microsoft itself is using Linux to help protect its servers against...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2003-07-08-microsoft-retaliation_x.htm The MS settlement was widely viewed as a slap on the wrist. If MS hasn't even been complying with that, someone should put some serious hurt on them.