New Media + IT

BBC News reports that The British Library in cooperation with Microsoft, is preparing some 100.000 old books to go online.
The books are 19th century books which belong in the public domain — to avoid copyright infringements.
Google is also working in the digitizing of books department, but with other libraries: Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, [...]

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[ categorized as: Books, Google, Microsoft ]

Just saw that The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft might be very interesting in investing in social startup Facebook.
Facebook has — according to the WSJ — 40 million users, and Microsoft (and apparently also Google) is now trying to grab a piece of the action.
Microsoft's approach to Facebook in recent weeks with proposals [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Microsoft, Social web ]

I have a Hotmail account that I don't use a lot, since I'm hopelessly in love with Gmail, among other things because of the magnificent search.
Nevertheless, I just got a mail from Hotmail telling me, that my account has been upgraded.
Among other things, my account is now an impressing 5 gigabytes — a bit more [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google, Microsoft ]

Mary Jo Foley has a post, that Microsoft Works 9.0 will be free of charge and powered economically by ads.
She also writes that there might be a hosted version of the Works office productivity suite popping up in the near future. Read Foley's post for more info.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Office, Online applications ]

Just upgraded my Windows Live Messenger 8 to the 8.5 beta. So far I haven't seen any new features but mostly design improvements.
I found the installer at FileHippo.com (it's also available from Microsoft's Live.com site) and I could log in without any problems, but that may be because I'm enrolled at the Windows Live [...]

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[ categorized as: Instant messaging, Microsoft, Windows ]

MSBlog has an interesting, and incredibly disturbing, blog post about how much you can do with a Vista bootable DVD.
All a person has to do is to boot a computer into the recovery mode using the command prompt, which doesn't require user name or password. This means, that the cracker can get full access to [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Security, Software, Windows ]

I've just installed Microsoft's Office 2007 — legally of course.
And I must say, the first hand impression is quite nice. Expect more posts on this in the near future :-)

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Office, Software ]

Is Ubuntu (Linux) ready for the desktop?
I haven't read it yet, but InformationWeek has done a comparison between Ubuntu and Windows Vista.
It's quite a long article, but you can skip right to the conclusion. :-)
Found via Digg.
Update 1:
Ubuntu News also has a take on the comparison.

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[ categorized as: Linux, Microsoft, Open source, Windows ]

To allow better playback of Windows Media Files Microsoft is now issuing a Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox.
This is my first time installing anything Microsoft into my Firefox and for simply that reason I actually looked at the End User License Agreement, EULA. Here's a snippet of what happens, when Microsoft issues a plugin [...]

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[ categorized as: Extensions, Microsoft ]

Just got a notification in my Windows Media Player, that an update was available. After the upgrade all of my wave files (.wav) now have this logo:

I'm guessing this is Windows Media Player's work, since the same icon is used inside the media player. I like it.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Windows ]