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The Windows XP Pro installation discs were wrapped in clear plastic. On the plastic was a sticker with the registration code. It is a multicolour sticker with a bar code, proof of licence, product key and other information.
Obviously, the product key is essential for installing the operating system. However, the print is [...]

Over the weekend, another offer was made from Microsoft to take over Yahoo. Again, the takeover was rejected:
“Microsoft would have bought Yahoo’s search engine while Mr Icahn would have ended up with the rest of the business.
Yahoo objected to being given only 24 hours to consider the offer and there being no opportunity [...]

This is a personal observation of Internet Explorer 7 on both a desktop and laptop. Both these machines have ample RAM. IE 7 is problematic on resources on both these machines.
The decline in memory resources begins at approximately the ten minute mark. This is with only a couple of tabs opened. [...]

The on-again off-again on-again acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft took a decidedly hostile turn. Microsoft has set conditions that include having the Yahoo board of director’s tossed:
“Microsoft set the stage for a full-blown battle to overthrow Yahoo’s board of directors on Monday when it declared it was interested in reopening talks to buy all [...]

The old adage used to be that “the customer is always right”. Microsoft seems to have modified that into “we will tell the customer what is right”. In a supply and demand marketplace, Microsoft is ignoring the demand and controlling the supply. In fact, in the case of Windows XP, there will [...]

Microsoft has put an abrupt end to its book digitizing project. Next week, the sites will be taken down:
“…”Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week,” wrote Satya Nadella, a senior vice president at [...]

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer was attacked with eggs in Budapest:

Microsoft is losing corporate business. The business sector is reluctant to upgrade to the Vista operating system:
“…General Motors may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer operating system from Microsoft. The automaker has encountered so many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that it may just wait for the next [...]

Steve Ballmer says one thing. And Microsoft appears to refute it in its next public statement. It leads to confusion and Microsoft customers are left wondering. Jared Proudfoot from the Microsoft lifecycle group attempts a clarification:
“…Windows XP will remain in what Microsoft calls “mainstream support” to April 14, 2009, and continue in [...]

I am in the process of deciding what parts to buy and what I really need for a machine that will meet my data base / computing needs for the next three years. The parts have been recommended to me by a Lockergnome friend in Norway. He also recommends that I use XP [...]