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Category Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft and Yahoo? 2 + 2 ≠ 4!
All this Microsoft and Yahoo stuff has got me thinking — how desperate are the CEOs of Microsoft to narrow the gap between them and Google? At the current time Google have a 55% market share, up 20% in 2 … Continue reading
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How to Hack Silverlight for Linux in 21 days
A developer and his team from the Mono project were offered by Microsoft a 10 – 20 minute presentation on the Mono project's efforts on bringing Silverlight to Linux. As all they had working at that point was a rectangle … Continue reading
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MS Slide7: Go to hell Hull
I recently went to a Microsoft event in Reading called SLIDE7. We were informed of the event by a lecturer at the University. It is a Web development day put on by Microsoft, dedicated to students; Or at least I … Continue reading
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Apple release Safari Beta for Windows
In a move to further Apple's brand on PCs, they announced yesterday that the new Safari 3 beta version is to be made available for Windows users. In a statement, Steve Jobs said: "We think Windows users are going to … Continue reading
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Borisbot Chatbot
I have now finished and handed in my Chatbot final year assessment project for Programming at Reading University. Whenever I get the time I will release the source code, and executables for Windows and Linux as open source. The following is an extract … Continue reading
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We’re in the second round of the Imagine Cup 2007!
Me and my team, Rediverse entered the Web Development invitational for the 2007 Imagine Cup competition in Korea run by Microsoft and other companies. Stage one consisted of around 200 teams and required each team to produce a document detailing … Continue reading
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Microsoft and the cheesy vision of the future
It may sound stupid, but Microsoft are thinking way into the distant future (3 years) of what using their collaboration software will be like in 2010. This is one of the most corniest things I’ve seen in a long time, … Continue reading
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Lots of work, stress and virus troubles. Cancel or Allow?
I have got alot of work to complete recently – my algorithms assignment, software engineering and final programming project (to be uploaded in the not to distant future). So I, Andy Callaghan, officially blame Windows Vista for making my life … Continue reading
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Windows Live OneCare fails basic virus detection tests
An independent security group that test the effectiveness of the major virus scanners have failed to certify Windows Live OneCare because of it’s crappy performance in the tests. The following programs were tested: Avast AVG AVIRA BitDefender Dr.Web eScan NOD32 … Continue reading
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Europe not happy with Microsoft. Again.
The chair of the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), has recently accused the big M of trying to ‘hijack HTML’ and take the web away from open standards with the new XML-based declarative language XAML, which is only available … Continue reading
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