Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft?
I'm doing a short project on Microsoft and its impact on society.
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15.12.2006 I hate Macs
Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, which has taken over magazines, newspapers and the internet in a series of brutal coordinated attacks aimed at causing massive loss of resistance.
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6.2.2007 Microsoft's Origami Project
A strange site has popped up recently and caused a little stir amongst the Windows communities.
Origamiproject.com is owned by Microsoft and hints at some announcement being made on the 2nd March 2006.
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25.5.2006 New project for converting WordprocessingML to HTML
It looks like there is a new project starting up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community for transforming WordprocessingML into HTML using XSLT.
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17.7.2006 Bill Gates' new project: Farming
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.
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26.1.2008 Microsoft taps Transmeta for secretive project
Transmeta's work with Microsoft involves a variation of its low-power Efficeon chip
Just weeks after Microsoft pulled back the curtains on its Origami project, chip design company Transmeta has slipped out a few more details about another of the software giant's secretive development projects.
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20.3.2006 Microsoft Search Head Denies New Project
Reports of a secret Silicon Valley search engine project are news to the company's head of search and advertising.
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6.6.2007 Download Duke Nukem 3D: Hi Res Project
Manhattan Project is occasionally frustrating, but when it's good, it's very, very good.
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Microsoft Origami Project pictures leaked online
Just three days before an official announcement it to me made from Microsoft it appears photos of the new Origami Project have been leaked online.
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6.3.2006Just three d OSx86 project offers $1 bounty for a Vista boot
The ink is barely dry on narf/blanka's checks, and already the OSx86 project has launched a new contest for getting Microsoft Vista to dual-boot on an Intel Mac (although it seems copies of that particular OS may be rather scarce for awhile), but this time the prize will be a bit smaller- thousands of dollars smaller, actually.
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22.3.2006 Microsoft and Ford to Announce Joint Development Project
As 2007 dawns on us, automaker Ford and software powerhouse Microsoft are expected to announce plans for Windows based, in-car computers.
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31.12.2006 Project Indiana: Could Sun outshine Microsofts Silverlight?
At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana."
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8.5.2007 Microsoft Debuts Project 2010, Beta Test Soon
Microsoft today is expected to unveil key details of the next version of Project, which will roll in key improvements while strengthening its ties with other Office software. The new edition of Project will feature the Office "ribbon" user interface, as well as a new timeline view and the ability to sync with SharePoint task lists.
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16.9.2009 Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch
Microsofts researchers are working on yet another operating-system research project which can trace its roots to the companys Singularity project.
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28.9.2009 Microsoft to Unveil New Certification Program for Office Project 2007
Microsoft will introduce a new Office Project 2007 certification program and a new portal, the EPM Connect, at the Project Management Institute Global Congress 2006 conference in Seattle the week of Oct. 23.
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21.10.2006 Project Codename Sundance Beta Windows Security Accelerator
Microsoft has debuted into Beta a new project designed to bulletproof the Windows platform along with the Office System.
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17.12.2008 Windows Mobile 7 info 1000 engineers working on project
Microsoft has confirmed that the current team of 1,000 developers, working on Windows Mobile 7, are planning to feature social networks as a key element of Windows Mobile 7.
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17.9.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1007 Download with Project and Visio
Another new build of Microsoft Office 2010 from beta branch has been compiled by Microsoft mid October, and had since leaked to Internet. The Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 with build version 14.0.4514.1009.
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12.11.2009 Screenshots of Microsoft Office 12 Project Dogfood Build 12.0.3111.1011
From Activewin: "We have posted 8 screenshots of the early preview build of Microsoft Office Project 12. The shots feature a wide variety of the program features, including gantt charts, and more."
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Bing Project Silk Road Now with Bing API 2.0
The Live Search to Bing rebranding covers the complex variety of nooks and crannies associated with Microsoft's search engine, including the application programming interface.
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10.6.2009 Do you understand MS EULA?
Get a hotfix - without having to call MS..
In this new age of the internet... You now can obtain a hotfix without having to interact with a single soul ( no phone calls etc.. ) Easy and convenient.
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26.7.2007 Better living without MS Office
Ten years ago to this very week, Apple called a truce in its market share war with Microsoft. After all, the Mac then had a 5 percent market share or so and the company and its OS plans were in disarray.
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11.8.2007 Who uses MS Live Search?
". . . its mostly people that are searching for files on their own hard drive who accidentally click the search the net button."
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3.4.2008 MS Geneva Beta 2
At over half a year since the introduction of the first Beta for Microsoft's open platform for claims-based user access, the Redmond company has produced the next development milestone. Microsoft Code Name "Geneva" Beta 2 is now available for download.
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12.5.2009 MS: Windows More Reliable Than Linux
Microsoft made a statement on Thursday that is sure to rile its detractors: the Windows Server operating system is being chosen in greater numbers by corporations over UNIX and Linux for its reliability.
To support the claim, Microsoft said companies such as Altera, Rayovac, and CompUSA cited that fact in their decisions to choose the Windows platform.
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24.3.2006 MS beta's Screenshots colection
Now are available Screenshots of: Windows Vista Build 5308, Windows Vista Build 5342, Windows Vista Build 5365, Windows Vista Build 5381, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007 !!!
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15.5.2006 Demystifying the MS Stance on BitTorrents
Whats the deal with the BitTorrent sites springing up to mirror the Beta 2 release of Windows Vista? As youre probably aware from reading this blog, we ran into some issues delivering the download of Windows Vista Beta 2 to everyone who wanted to test out the release.
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3.7.2006 MS investigates Word zero-day
Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory that warns of exploits for a previously unknown (zero day) hole in various versions of Microsoft Word.
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6.12.2006 MS KILL BILL AIO
Are you tired of dealing with the antics of Bill Gates and company from the small
town of Redmond? Are you willing to do something about it?
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15.2.2007Foreign language hate group slides under Facebook's radar
Facebook has been translated into dozens of foreign languages, but a hate group on the site in Serbian was left completely unmoderated, despite a
tremendous user outcry against it...
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12.12.2008Bang On: It's easy to hate the Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 has had quite a poor record when it comes to build quality. My experience with Microsoft's wonder console does little to change what
so many people already know: The Xbox 360 is more fragile than paper-mâché in a rain storm. It's almost as though simply glancing at
the console in the wrong way can send it into cardiac arrest. It's just so easy to hate it. I've already complained about my excruciatingly
frustrating experience with Xbox support, so we can all rejoice in the fact that this tale does not include any dealings with them. Working for a
major retailer, I've had the extended warranty, from the store, since day one.
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24.03.2009Facebook kills anti-Muslim group
Facebook has disabled an anti-Islamic group called "I Hate Muslims in Oz" after the issue was brought to their attention by CNet's Chris
Matyszczyk. Facebook's stance toward Holocaust-denying groups is more ambivalent. The company's terms of service prohibit content that is
"hateful" or "threatening", and, according to Matyszczyk, Facebook does not consider simply denying that the Holocaust happened to be "hateful"
or "threatening". Facebook's Barry Schnitt clarifies the situation: "We disabled the 'I Hate Muslims in Oz' group a day or so ago
because it contained an explicit statement of hate.
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11.06.2009EU MPs to ISPs: Take hate sites offline
A group of European Parliament
members have submitted a draft
declaration to the European
Parliament requiring ISPs to
better monitor the content of
the sites they host in order
to keep hate speech off the
web. The five European (from
the UK, Hungary and Germany)
MPs sponsoring the declaration
would like to see racism and
hate speech banished from the
Internet completely, starting
with Europe. Should European
ISPs not go along, the MPs
will try to get the European
Commission to enact
legislation on the issue. The
MPs hope the EC uses the Safer
Internet Plus program, which
intends to " promote safer
use of the Internet "
while fighting against
" illegal content and
content unwanted by " end
users.
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24.04.2007Managing Increasingly Complex Project Portfolios
Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution delivers end-to-end project governance to ensure alignment with business objectives and
regulatory compliance, and seamless integration with Microsoft Office opens out new project management capabilities to designated employees...
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30.10.2007MS Accelerates Campus
Expansion Plan
Microsoft said Thursday that
it was pumping an additional
$1 billion into its planned
15-20 year plan to expand the
company's Redmond campus.
With the additional funds,
about half of the project
would now be completed in
three years...
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10.02.2006Yahoos Hate AOL Deal, But Too Scared To Tell Jerry
Kara Swisher
called up a half-dozen of her senior Yahoo (YHOO) sources and asked them what they thought of Yahoo's new
merge-with-AOL-to-escape-Microsoft-plan (MSFT). In short? They hate it. Unfortunately, they're too scared to tell Jerry...
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11.04.2008MS: How we really designed the look and feel of Windows 7
Brandon LeBlanc: An inaccurate quote has been
floating around the
Internet today about the design origins of Windows 7 and whether its look and feel was "borrowed" from Mac OS X. Unfortunately this came from
a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7. I hate to say this about one of our own, but his comments were
inaccurate and uninformed...
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12.11.2009Top 10 reasons you shouldn't be a project manager
You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not
for everyone. Many people have some of the traits to be a good project manager, but they also have many traits that make them a bad fit for the
position. Here's my list of indications that you may not be well suited to be a project manager. Note: These are not in any ranked order.
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01.10.2007MS Open XML, ODF Converter Finished
The open source project to
build a translator between
Microsoft's new Office Open
XML format and OpenDocument,
the standard backed by OASIS,
reached its first milestone
Friday, releasing 1.0 of the
technology for both Microsoft
Word and competing
ODF-compatible office suites...
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03.02.2007Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Project 2010
Today, at Microsoft Project Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced that the public beta of Microsoft Project 2010 will become available later this
year, and revealed the products enhanced project and portfolio management features for the first time. Microsoft also disclosed packaging information
that streamlines the number of Microsoft Project editions from four to three. Starting today, customers can pre-register for the Microsoft Project
2010 beta at
http://www.microsoft.com/project/2010.
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16.09.2009Google Puts Library Project on Hold
Search giant Google said late Thursday that it would stop an ambitious project to scan and index the entire catalog of five libraries until November. The project originally launched in December and quickly came under fire from several groups, including one that accused Google Print of promoting a "unipolar world view."..
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14.08.2005MS Research project solves mobile touch screen problems
A computer science
student and a developer at
Microsoft Research have
created a technique designed
to make it easier to select
items on a mobile-phone screen
with a finger and not a tiny
pointed stylus.
The development comes just
before Apple Inc.'s much
anticipated iPhone, with its
touch screen, hits the market
in June.
The
Microsoft Research project,
called Shift, automatically
displays an image on the
screen above where users place
their finger showing the area
under the users' finger. The
image is circular and includes
a small X. By toggling the tip
of the finger, users can move
the X to place it on top of
the item they want to choose.
Lifting the finger from the
screen selects the item. ..
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17.05.2007Perspective: On the ground with Apple's MacBook Air
PERSPECTIVE Love him or hate him, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has the keen ability to get people excited about anything and everything, regardless if
you even care what he's talking about...
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16.01.2008Facebook users unite in outrage over changed layout
Some don't like it when others clean out their houses while they're gone on vacation, and a few might hate it when someone else cleans up .
Facebook is now cleaner, brighter, and whiter, and tens of thousands are unhappy...
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13.08.200810 Warning Signs of Project Failure
Unless you are in a mature industry such as banking or insurance, where information is the life-blood of what you do, chances are you will be familiar
with at least some of these 10 project management failings put together by Robert Francis Group analyst Mimi Ho.
"One, they're
right on the button and two, if you take a look at the large majority of them, it all has to do with project planning and early stages of analysis
that companies like to jump over," said Jeff Monteforte, owner of Exential, an independent project management consultancy in Cleveland, Ohio.
In other words, when IT projects fail it rarely is a result of the technology. At its core, project management is all about people.
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23.10.2007Windows Live PhotoZoom Alpha: Silverlight powers new Microsoft Live Labs project
There's a new project brewing
in Microsoft Live Labs,
Windows Live PhotoZoom. This
alpha project from Ray
Ozzie's Concept Development
Team is Silverlight based and
allows seamless zoom controls
on consumer photos in a web
based application. PhotoZoom
also makes use of the
Photosynth / Seadragon
technology developed by Live
Labs, which most recently has
been seen in the
http://www.on10.net/Blogs/larr
y/bbc-launches-six-photosynth-
collections/>Photosynth
collections released by the
BBC. While you may not yet be
able to recreate the BBC's
work, PhotoZoom is another
step towards this.
According
to Matt Augustine of the
PhotoZoom team, "PhotoZoom is
an experimental site that
brings the zooming
capabilities first shown
during the Silverlight demos
in the Mix07 keynote to
consumer photography." Note
that the currently available
alpha/beta builds of
Silverlight do not feature the
zooming feature that is
required for PhotoZoom, so the
timeline for this Live Labs
project being released is
dependent on when this
Silverlight update becomes
public...
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07.06.2007Palm joins Adobe's Open Screen Project, Pre supports Flash
As Business Wire is reporting, Palm has joined Adobe's Open Screen Project, a project in which many industry leading mobile phone developers are
"working together to provide a consistent runtime environment and user experience across mobile phones, desktops, and other consumer electronics
devices." The Open Screen Project has many well-known partners, including Nokia, Intel, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and even the BBC. The
Project benefits many people, from OEMs down to end users, because it focuses on 'reducing fragmentation through a consistent runtime environment
that reflects the needs of the various ecosystem constituents.' For more information about the Open Screen Project, please visit its website.
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16.02.2009Microsoft Buys Project
Software Firm
Microsoft on Friday announced
plans to acquire software and
intellectual property from
United Management
Technologies, which it will
integrate into the next
revision of Office. UMT
provides project and portfolio
management software that
already connects with
Microsoft Office Enterprise
Project Management...
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16.12.2005MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work
Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the
shift to many cores on client systems. There are several Microsoft Research projects focusing on various aspects of the many-core challenge. The
newest and seemingly most far-reaching of these is MS-ManiC.
According to a new page on the Microsoft Research site, the
MS-ManiC (Memory Systems for Many Cores) projectis focused on
designing scalable memory system architectures for future many-core processors. The memory system is not only one of the major performance bottlenecks
in chip multiprocessors, but its design can lead to serious energy inefficiency, unpredictability, and security holes. Our goal is to design a
scalable and balanced memory system using a holistic hardware/software approach. We are interested in designing high-performance, energy-efficient,
and secure memory system that at the same time provides quality of service to applications utilizing it.
Sounds ambitious. What form would such a
memory system take and when might it move from research to a product group? No word. In fact, theres very little information (yet) on the MS-ManiC
site, other than a link to a newly published whitepaper, Memory Performance Attacks: Denial of Memory Service in Multi-Core Systems, (which is part
of the proceedings of the 16th USENIX Security Symposium from August 2007).
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