Tag: Microsoft
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Hotmail Evolves – Windows Live Mail Beta
Well it seems that everything in the MS world is going live. This includes mail. Hotmail users can sign up for a beta test, so I did. The only thing that I use Hotmail for is spam and Messenger – the latter being almost a requirement these days to communicate with teenaged relatives. Typical of…
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Xbox 360 Starting to crack
Found this on The Register today, it seems that it’s not going to be long before the hackers get into the 360. Maybe even by New Years.
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COTS only on 360
Well it look like MS has really put up a few hurdles to hacking the XBox 360. Not that many in the educational realm would be hacking consoles anyway to put educational content on them (not worth the time or the effort). But Engadget has posted some of the protective measures that are in place.…
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It’s Here!
Engadget has got what to me are the first pics of the XBox 360 being unpacked. Early reviews seem positive, but it’s going to be a long while before this machine is common enough that we’ll see any COTS type educational value from it.
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MS wants to “Just work”
The Financial Times has uncovered some emails that Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie (CTO for MS) sent out that outline some of the ideas that MS wants to use to try to stay on top as the world enters the “services era” (web 2.1?) and then prompted by a quick conversation with someone in the…