Iconic Icons: Designing the World of Windows https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416
Iconic Icons: Designing the World of Windows https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416
Sending Large Email File Attachments from Microsoft Outlook with OutDisk SFTP Add-in ⌘ Read more…
Closing LinkedIn
Not long ago—not even a year now—I re-created a LinkedIn account, mostly following an invitation to join from one of my friends. I did it against my will, because for whatever reason I have hated LinkedIn even since before it was acquired by Microsoft. Yet, I joined, filled very little information, set privacy settings to fully closed—or so I thought—and moved on.
Soon after I started receiving UCE from medical, or pharmaceutical related companies. As many as ten emails per day. I calle … ⌘ Read more
https://www.microsoft.com/ie/ 404s. End of an age, I tell you.
OutDisk FTP Add-in for Microsoft Outlook has been Updated. ⌘ Read more…
I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history/
White Mirror: How did Microsoft’s 2009 predictions for the world of 2019 hold up? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/how-did-microsofts-2009-predic.html
Hey, maybe now that microsoft is pushing chrome, things will get bad enough that electron will be dropped & developers will remember that cross-platform GUI toolkits exist that don’t involve spamming HTML
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? – The Old New Thing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063
Disk Compressor History: A Microsoft Antitrust Prelude https://tedium.co/2018/09/04/disk-compression-stacker-doublespace-history/
The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf
GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button
Hot take: the endgame of any company is 90s Microsoft or death. If Microsoft had not bought Github, Github would have become Microsoft, because it has a profit motive.
‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years
âCrush Themâ: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years
What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict
Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/expression-web/expression-web-4-tutorial-1.shtml
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft launched its free (non open source), cross-platform, code editor early this year (April, 2015), at its Build Developer Conference.
I have been tempted to try it, as I read its file comparison is very nice, its intelliSense, and it’s based on the [same platfor … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft and global cybercrime
From The Official Microsoft Blog:
On June 19, Microsoft filed for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for Nevada against No-IP. On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route a … ⌘ Read more
MCITP - Enterprise Server Administrator
The last two weeks were very busy ones. I went through a Boot Camp and obtained the Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional certification, as an Enterprise Server 2008 Administrator. Much more to do with the product, but migration is on my close horizon.
As a side note, and totally unrelated, I will change the way this weblog look soon. I will probably start over as well, all the old content gone. Not sure yet about that last part, but … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft DRM server going offline
Rob Bennett, head of MSN Entertainment and Video Services, wrote to customers in an email:
As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers. You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, and you must do so before August 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additi … ⌘ Read more
Within ten days!
Thank you for submitting your registration to Microsoft Heroes Happen Here: 2008 Launch Events.
You can print this page for your records using the “Print” button at right. Please expect to receive a confirmation email from [long email] within ten business days.
The key words here are “within ten business days”. Ten “business” days. A confirmation email! Do you find that as crazy as I do? What in the world!? If there are using Exchange, and Microsoft web technologies to … ⌘ Read more
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft – despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses – to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between the … ⌘ Read more
Lets us make sure
Comes v. Microsoft – Plaintiff’s Exhibit 2991 – (PDF)
From: Bill Gates Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM To: Bob Muglia; Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky Cc: Paul Maritz Subject: Office renderingOne thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most de … ⌘ Read more
Want the darn thing?
Beta of XP update made public, A blog by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
Microsoft issued a release candidate version of XP SP3 in November and expanded its testing earlier this month, promising the public test version would come at some later date.
For anyone who still wants to try the darn thing, Microsoft says, the beta should be up on Microsoft’s Web site later Tuesday and ready in final for … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft is a crying baby
What does Microsoft do when they don’t get it their way? They cry like babies, they snitch and they try to use their mu$cle to get things their way.
Microsoft Urges Review of Google-DoubleClick Deal – Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United States and Europe, is urging regulators to consider scuttling Google’s plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company.
Microsoft contends that the $3.1 billion deal, announced on … ⌘ Read more
Heavy Microsoft ads on Freshmeat
Freshmeat is, in their own words, “the first stop for Linux users hunting for the software they need for work or play.” and it also “offers a variety of original content on technical, political, and social aspects of software and programming, written by both Freshmeat readers and Free Software luminaries.”
I have been very surprised to see, more and more, Microsoft ads on Freshmeat. All over the place. Quite often. Fre … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Security Bulletins
This is the second time that I receive a Microsoft Security Bulletin and, since Microsoft uses PGP to sign their bulletins, I have decided to check their signature validity. I don’t know if this has been a flaw in the past as well, since I delete those bulletins without even reading them most of the time, but in the two occassions I have checked them, they had failed to verify, since the signature is bad.
[-- Begin GPG Output (Wed Jul 13 08:30:48 2005) --]
Sign ... ⌘ [Read more](https://collantes.us/2005/07/13/microsoft-security-bulletins/)They advertise with the best
Imagine my surprise when I saw the following Google Ad showing under one of my posts this morning:
[Was a screenshot of a Microsoft MSN advertisement on Google]
I guess Microsoft knows who is the best, right? I mean, the only way to see that advertising (other than serving adds on your own web space) is by searching the web using Google. I think it is funny… and interesting. ⌘ Read more
It is the Marketers fault!
While reading my daily doses of irrelevant information on Slashdot today, I saw that “ _…The UK Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints that Microsoft misled consumers by running advertisements claiming Linux is 10 times more expensive than Windows…_” While they did not lied, they forgot to mention that the … ⌘ Read more
A busy week
It has been a busy week. On Monday classes will start and, as you can imagine, a lot of things are left to the last moment on a Campus. It is also true that Murphy’s Law applies as well on that final week: if something is going to go wrong, it will certainly go wrong. If you are thinking Microsoft Exchange you are on the right track.
You see, when I installed Exchange 2003 I swear I installed the Enterprise version. Of course I did not; I guess Windows 2003 Enterprise Server got me confused. Running th … ⌘ Read more
Flipping the switch
Next Monday (August 2nd) we are flipping the switch from the old reliable Linux based email system (Sendmail, Washington University IMAP/POP3) to a relatively newly deployed Microsoft Exchange 2003. Needless is to say that we – TRC staff– all have been busy wrapping things up to minimize the impact. But things –bad things, unexpected things– are bound to happen. It is just a matter of t … ⌘ Read more
Do you want to try it?
A demo of Office 2004 for Mac is available for Mac users to try. From Microsoft MacTopia Office 2004 page:
“…There’s time for fun and time to focus. When you’re ready to get down to business, Microsoft’s Office 2004 for Mac provi … ⌘ Read more
On a training, for two days
I am going through a Windows 2003 training for two days. A few things we are talking about here I have already played with, some others are boooring! But it could be worse, at least it is not a Microsoft sales pitch.
It does feels weird to be away from work, I am not used to Trainings of this kind. It feels weird as well to be typing this from the classroom, while the instructor is going through his Powerpoint presentation. Botton line is, the chair where I am sitting is ve … ⌘ Read more