Tag: Microsoft

  • Windows Live Academic

    Well, it looks like MS is chasing Google by launching it’s own Academic search tool (hmm… using the interweb for research – what a novel idea!) that unlike Google’s doesn’t work with Safari.

  • Bill, Bill, Bill… M$ vs the sub $100 laptop

    This story has been out there for a while today, but here is my take, and likely it’s shared by many others. Bill (Moneybags) Gates was quoted (rightly or wrongly) as saying: “The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk…and with a tiny…

  • Entourage now plays with Sync Services

    Well, this morning, I was greeted with MS update saying that the Sync Service update was ready for my Office install. I downloaded it, but then while in the gym, I pondered – do I really want to go to the “monolithic database driven beast that shall not be named”? (Sorry, I was watching the…

  • MovieMaker can be redeemed! And a bit of Re-Imagineering

    Working with a class cutting together short films today, I had to try to figure out a way that a student who has to for various reasons work on a laptop that only has Movie Maker to be able to share the finished product with the rest of the class. Previously my experience with Movie…

  • Microsoft Oragami Project

    It’s not hot off the press news by now, but there is a fair bit of stiff about Origami. It seems to be a device (in terms of size) that is one step above the intelligent magnets and watches that Bill and Co. were talking about a few years ago and it’s possibly just bigger…