New Media + IT

If you consider upgrading/installing Microsoft Vista, perhaps you should take a lisk of "The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista" at PC World.
Found via Winforums blog.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Windows ]

If you're a Mac person (I'm not) and can understand Danish (I can) then you might appreciate this joke cartoon from Engineering Weekly.
Basically, the guy standing up is saying: »I think it's working now. But isn't it just a poor copy of Apple's Dashboard?«
And the guy on the floor says: »It just needed more RAM«.
I [...]

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[ categorized as: Mac, Microsoft, Windows ]

Apple lunched an iPhone and now CrunchGear has been tipped, that ZunePhone is in the works – "Zune" is the name of Microsoft's portable media player.
Does this indicate that the market for dedicated portable media players is starting to die? Me thinks.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Mobile ]

According to Mary Jo Foley, "Microsoft starts gathering IE 8 input".
On January 25, a number of testers reporting receiving e-mail from Microsoft, notifying them of the availability of an IE 8 survey on the Microsoft Connect tester Web site. The survey included a number of questions around RSS feeds, Favorites and browser navigation, in general.
Be [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Software ]

According to LiveSide, MSN is to launch new mobile beta homepage named "MSN to go".
Similar to its Windows Live counterpart, MSN to go offers users a homepage for their mobile device, with both Windows Live Mail and Search integration. Where it differs though is that unlike the mobile Live.com, MSN to go does not have [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Mobile ]

On the Internet Explorer blog Tony Chor — Group Program Manager at the Internet Explorer team — is writing that Internet Explorer 7 now has 100 million installations.
The only browser more popular than IE7 in the US is its predecessor, Internet Explorer 6.
Now, 100 million might seem impressive, but keep in mind that Microsoft [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Microsoft ]

SoftPedia is reporting that Microsoft is running post Internet Explorer 7 builds on the inside.
However, Bruce Morgain — Software Development Manager, IE Team and responsible with leading the Vista RSS
platform — states in a thread at Microsoft's Channel 9 that the rumours are somewhat exaggerated:
While they're not flat out wrong, they're not right, either. [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Microsoft ]

As I've posted earlier, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 8.
Today I just came across InternetExplorer8.net which labels itself as »Your Guide to Microsoft's Next Browser«.
From what I can make of it, it appears to be a site that lists the latest news stories and/or blog posts regarding Internet Explorer 8.
Below is a poll, a [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Microsoft ]

Read it and weep.

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Microsoft ]

The success of Firefox certainly got Microsoft's Internet Explorer team moving!
ActiveWin.com is reporting that the work on Internet Explorer 8 has begun.
Internet Explorer 8 will, according to the plans, be ready in 18-24 months, and the team is working on the new release instead of a service pack.
If Internet Explorer is going to be as [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Microsoft ]