Are you one of the many, many...many unhappy people who have purchased a computer recently that had Microsoft Vista installed? I don't have Vista and haven't even used it, but so many people are complaining about it that some companies are taking steps to insure THEY don't get blamed for Microsoft's problem.

NEC is now

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I wonder what it's like to be 31 like Matt Cohler and leave a company like facebook to head to an even bigger paying venture capital partner role.
facebook is a huge phenomenon but I don't use it much any more. It became a huge time suck and I couldn't stand how slow it is. For a fairly plain interface it sure took time to

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This post is about making it so your ads show up by circumventing adblockers. I didnt realize that this was such a problem until recently when I read about the new Internet Explorer and how it automatically blocks google ads (what do you want to be

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Microsoft is offering $44.6 BILLION dollars to buy Yahoo in an attempt to stop the bleeding caused by Google. Both Microsoft and Yahoo continue to fall behind Google. So will this new merger help? If Yahoo accepts the offer, can we expect new and creative things from either Microsoft or Yahoo? If history is any teacher, the ans

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The terms login and user are often used interchangeably within the industry. However, they are used consistently to refer to two different things in Microsoft SQL Server context. You will get a good idea of how they differs to Microsoft SQL Server in layman term.
This would be helpful in configuring security for business operation powers by

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Goggle said: 2008 will be the beginning of a new era. Nobody really understand what‘s going on but since last week all the piece of the puzzle get clearer everyday.
Google Vs Facebook the war begins?

Google tries to get facebook but Microsoft pu

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In a few simple steps the post describes how to restore missing icons in the System Tray in Windows Vista Home Premium. I personally had to perform this myself after a Windows Update grayed out the Notification Area check-boxes. Easy enough for beginners to understand and will prevent you from searching an hour for a fix. As always-back up yo

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For the most part, there are a lot of similarities with Vista and the the previous two versions of Windows, but they did make some subtle changes for the sake of change. One of those changes is where they put Add/Remove Programs.

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Don’t we all love Gmail? Well at least I do, there isn’t a single thing that I could think of that would make me stop using Google’s free e-mail service. Gmail is arguable Google’s best achievement and has been steadily growing into the best free webmail. The storage has climbed to almost 5GB, for most people more than they’ll ever need in a

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Some really lame guy is trying to Sue Microsoft and the makers of Halo for His Xbox freezing up while he plays. Is this the stupidist thing you have heard of? It is to me. People need to grow up and get a real life.

The Xbox is purely entertainment. How are you going to Sue over something you buy and use which has no bearing

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Apart from the select group of alpha and beta testers I have not seen much interaction between MS and users. The Microsoft company blogs are mostly personal with a view towards upcoming social events inside Microsoft with a few team blogs announcing the occasional product upgrades or service pack releases. Now Microsoft is trying to mold its

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Microsoft is stirring again - they have just released Internet Explorer Pro 1.2 last Tuesday which is quite an amazing add-on if early reports are to be taken seriously.

To use a hackneyed phrase, it looks like IE7Pro comes with all the "bells a

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Microsoft Introduced a coffee table that will probably change the world. This surface gadget is really neat. Featured with all kinds of cool applications: video puzzle, finger paint tool, music, video, photo, casino app and the coolest is the wave a

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FINALLY! Microsoft make some changes to adcenter. Some upgrade highlights are:

- Instant editorial feedback on your ads and keywords during the creation process.
- Receive one editorial e-mail per account per day for your newly disapproved ads o

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The development platform of Microsoft Dynamics Ax comes with an embeded TODO list.  I do not know if embeded is the right word as it actually written inside the code as a reminder.  It is similar to that seen in Microsoft Visual C++ few frameworks where there is a TODO in the code to tell the engineer what to do. X

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AOL says "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer." AOL has announced that they will stop supporting Netscape browser beginning February 2008.

Check out the

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Have you ever wondered why MS Word makes some truly appalling suggestions on the grammar check. This post tells you why it's a mistake to count on Word exclusively to tidy up your writing and points out some researchers who have put Word's grammar check to the test and found it wanting. There are some hilarious examples of e

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