vista

It has been reported that Jerry Seinfeld will earn about ten million dollars as part of a Vista advertising campaign. Here is an extended, minute and a half spot with Bill Gates:
link: Seinfeld / Gates
I guess I am not ‘with it’ enough to understand the humour in this. Perhaps it is intended […]

Three hundred million dollars is the approximate value of Microsoft’s new advertising campaign to promote Windows Vista. Jerry Seinfeld will pocket in the neighbourhood of ten million dollars for his efforts. The figures are only in the millions but it does bring to mind Senator Everett Dirksen’s comment about spending. Senator Dirksen […]

Microsoft has begun the process of the public introduction to Windows 7. The first look will be in October:
“A first glimpse at the technology inside the next version of Windows will be given in October.
Microsoft has said that engineering information about Windows 7 will be shared with attendees at two technical conferences it […]

To increase work speed, to avoid repetitive typing and to prevent keyboard errors, MacroMaker is a terrific program. This software has been available for years and years. It first made its appearance in 2000 and, personally, it is one of the programs I miss the most when I am using someone else’s computer.
Macros […]

Spelling errors impact upon the presentation of a written work. Poor spelling can detract from good material because it undermines the readers’ trust in what the writer has to say. There is a small application that will monitor what is being typed and flag errors as they happen:
“…tinySpell can watch your typing on […]

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 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 […]