Yearly Archives: 2005

.. the more they stay the same. Several major vendors got in a fight with Microsoft back in the day over their right to preload Linux on their systems. Microsoft (well, Ballmer) allgeded that PC’s without an OS were exclusively … Continue reading →

Why is it that my pages are attracting drunk college kids with nothing better to do? Case and point, the IM below. This came in from a school (clipper.rollins.edu % [66.195.118.2]) and someone out there is paying for this kids … Continue reading →

In the IT world its hard not to like Microsoft, especially when you consider the competition and other alternatives that many of us have been burned by in the past. However, to the people outside the IT world, Microsoft is … Continue reading →

I’ve blogged about this before but I just have to mention it again as its a real time saver, especially for some of you running your business from your cell phone. This little utility works on across the Windows Mobile … Continue reading →

Looks like some worth-while news are coming out of the MVP Summit after all: Office 12 will have native PDF support. This is one of those things that I doubt anybody would say “Why, Adobe Acrobat works so well” mostly … Continue reading →

In an interview with Bernard Ourghanlian from Microsoft France revealed that there are plans to come out with Microsoft Windows XP SP3. The service pack is planned for release after the release of Windows Vista and there is a slight … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing around with it and so far I’m impressed. There is a pretty good document for system administrators that has been updated with the SP2 content. The best part: advanced extranet configuration. Before SP2 there was one way … Continue reading →

I have to hand it to Bink, he can find a good story. You know how they say “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” – well apply that to a few German professors drinking out with their students and … Continue reading →

Over the last few days a number of Microsoft Office updates have been released in form of Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2. I won’t pretend to talk about something I don’t know so I’ll just talk about Outlook: New … Continue reading →

I am posting the following against my better judgment, having owned an HP Ipaq phone in the past and been remarkably disappointed by the marketing P’s: Price, performance, promotion. Too expensive, too many reboots, too many lies about it being … Continue reading →