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 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 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 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 Microsoft’s 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
Microsoft’s researchers are working on yet another operating-system research project which can trace its roots to the company’s 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 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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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 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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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 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 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 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 in an enterprise environment. Availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds are built for enterprise-level monitoring. Both local and remote connectivity checks help ensure database availability.
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5.6.2006 Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - September CTP
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.
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24.9.2006 Podcasts: Microsoft IT Showcase: How Microsoft IT Architects and Configures DFS Replication
Edit: Something close to my heart! I sure hope the R2 changes to DFS are as good as they sound in all the marketing documents!
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25.2.2006 Microsoft Showcases Platform Advancements in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Second annual Microsoft Office System Developers Conference highlights opportunity for custom solutions development utilizing innovations in the 2007 release.
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23.3.2006 Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23
Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23.
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18.6.2009 Microsoft is 30 years old today! have a look at the Microsoft Timeline
It's hard to believe that Microsoft is already 30 years old. The company that made Redmond, Washington, a household name was actually founded in 1975 in another city by two young Seattle men, one of whom was a college dropout. From this inauspicious beginning came an equally improbable vision: A personal computer on every desk and in every home. Thirty years later, it seems so obvious. But at the time, when only a handful of people knew what a personal computer was, it was a great leap of faith and daring.
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Microsoft Windows Microsoft Application Verifier 3.2.0038
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing.
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26.7.2006 Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras - Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft has silently released 3 updates for Windows Ultimate users today.
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23.9.2008Foreign 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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11.06.2009Managing 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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30.10.2007EU 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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24.04.2007Microsoft 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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16.09.2009Yahoos 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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11.04.2008Microsoft 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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16.12.2005Microsoft Project 2007 SDK December 2007 Update Available
The Microsoft Office Project 2007 SDK is a release for solution providers, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Project
Server 2007 platform, and how to extend and integrate Project Server 2007 with other applications for enterprise project management (EPM). It features
conceptual and how-to articles, sample code, and programming references.
The download file for the Project 2007 SDK is updated
from the July 2007 SDK download. The pj12ProjectSDK.exe download includes two HTML Help files: PJSDK2007.chm (conceptual topics and managed code
reference), and pj12ReportingDB.chm (the Reporting Database Schema reference). OLAPCubeSchemas.xls is a Microsoft Office Excel file that lists the
dimensions, measures, and properties of the 14 Project Server OLAP cubes. Additional references include the default Project Guide files and the XML
schemas for Project 2007 and the ChangeXML parameter for Statusing methods in the Project Server Interface (PSI).
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13.12.2007Top 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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01.10.2007Microsoft's worst run project: Windows 2000
Microsofts Iain McDonald,
director of project management
for Windows Server, says the
worst run project at the
software giant was Windows
2000.
That tidbit
comes from an
interview
Mary Jo Foley just posted.
To folks that arent
familiar with the intricacies
of Microsoft this revelation
is a bit of a stunner. Was
Windows 2000 really a worse
run project than Vista, which
had a do-over in the middle of
the project? Windows ME? That
couldnt have been so hot. When
you ponder all of Microsofts
worst hits“and the projects
behind them“Windows 2000
doesnt instantly register. In
fact, Ed Bott gave Windows
2000 a 9 on a 10 scale in his
rating of Windows versions...
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04.07.2007Microsoft's project "Pink" specs revealed?
Over the past week there have been a ton of rumors in relation to a variety of Microsoft's upcoming products and services. The folks up in Redmond
have been hard at work for over a year on a top secret project codenamed "Pink". We get the question all the time, "What exactly is
‘Pink'?" The people working on the project have been extremely quiet, not much is known except that the device isn't going to be
manufactured by Microsoft. A few weeks ago
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12.05.2009Google 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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14.08.2005Perspective: 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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23.10.2007Bill Gates on Project Natal and Windows
Project Natal was unveiled as a revolutionary new gesture-based controller for the Xbox 360 during this year's E3 games expo, but while you may be
looking forward to using it to control games in your living room it could also find its way into your office, according to Bill Gates. In an
interview with CNET News, the Microsoft chairman and former CEO Bill Gates revealed that the company is looking at ways of using the Project Natal
hardware with Windows PCs through the same "software libraries and applications." The ideas started in Microsoft Research, which is the "crown
jewel in terms of always feeding neat new things into Microsoft" in the eyes of Gates.
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16.07.2009Microsoft Offers More Origami
Hints
As expected, Microsoft on
Thursday revealed a few new
hints about its much-hyped
Origami Project, which is
expected to launch in the form
of an ultra-portable PC with
touch screen and media
capabilities. However, details
of the project are still
sketchy and Microsoft is
remaining cryptic...
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02.03.2006Microsoft Origami: Mobile PC,
Runs XP
As expected, Microsoft on
Thursday revealed a few new
hints about its much-hyped
Origami Project, which is
expected to launch in the form
of an ultra-portable PC with
touch screen and media
capabilities. However, details
of the project are still
sketchy and Microsoft is
remaining cryptic...
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03.03.2006Palm 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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