You seen this ploy. It happens repeatedly on sites such as eBay. A shady seller will offer an item for a real reasonable price. When you check carefully, there is an outrageous shipping fee attached. And this is a similar scheme that is being used with Windows 7:
“The free Windows 7 [...]
The irony is striking. Microsoft is in the security news for its free computer security package. The emphasis is on the “free“:
“… Microsoft said the software would be available to anyone who wanted to use it and downloading it would not involve registering with the software firm or having a limit on [...]
It is a bad news for some Microsoft employees. Five thousand Microsoft positions will be eliminated. Some of those jobs will be terminated immediately:
“Microsoft Corp. plans to cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, including 1,400 immediately, as its profit tumbles amid PC market weakness.
The software giant said Thursday [...]
If you are a Vista user or a user of an early version of Windows 7, there is a security alert for a dangerous worm:
“…Drives such as USB sticks infected with the virus trick users into installing the worm, according to researchers.
The “Autoplay” function in Vista and early versions of Windows 7 automatically searches [...]
There are many people (myself included) and businesses that have stayed with or returned to Windows XP. It may be a matter of economics or a matter of too many Vista glitches. Now Microsoft is preparing to market Windows 7 as the “latest and greatest” operating system. For many of those Windows [...]
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has focused on advocating the new Windows 7 operating system. Mr Ballmer has given the new operating system “best ever” status:
“…As expected, Ballmer announced that Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Windows 7, which will be available for download beginning Friday. The news [...]
There is a serious issue with Internet Explorer (IE). The problem is critical enough that a security firm has advocated not using IE until the problem is resolved:
“Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.
The flaw in Microsoft’s [...]
On the Google Chrome page, any mention of ‘beta’ has been removed. It seems that Chrome has left the ‘beta’ stage and, as the Guardian reports, the Google browser is becoming mainstream:
“Google claims its three-month old web browser Chrome has already been used by 10 million people in 200 countries, the web giant said [...]
Microsoft has stated repeatedly that it is no longer interested in Yahoo. However, there have been changes at Yahoo. Jerry Yang has stepped down as the Chief Executive Officer. The stock market has reduced the value of the Yahoo stock significantly. It is not a surprise, then, that there is a [...]
It is rare that the general public is privy to the private interchanges between corporate giants. However, because of an ongoing lawsuit, some confidential email exchanges between Microsoft and HP are now a matter of public record:
“…”I can’t be more clear than to say you not only let us down by reneging on your [...]
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