Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Eight things I’d like to see in Office 2010

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

It may be a bit late for this, but here’s eight things Microsoft could do NOW that would dramatically make my – and judging by some of the web searches I’ve done, lots of other people’s – experience of Office better. (more…)

Exchange 2007 doesn’t work on Windows Server 2008 R2?

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Bit of an oddity, this. I spotted on All About Microsoft (written by Mary Jo Foley, who’s been covering the company long enough to know more about them than most MS executives, I should imagine) that Exchange Server 2007 doesn’t work on Windows Server 2008 release 2. The question is: why doesn’t it? Not that they haven’t got form for this kind of nonsense, of course. (more…)

5 things Windows ought to blatantly steal

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

In 2007 I talked about 10 things I do and don’t like about Windows Vista. So here are 5 things Windows doesn’t have that it ought to blatantly copy for Windows 8… (more…)

Windows Genuine – “Advantage”?

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Bit of disk corruption splattered all my emails in Thunderbird.  Fortunately most were still there in Google Mail, and I had a backup (from May) of the profile, and I managed to rebuild most of it. (more…)

VB5: hindsight is golden…

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Isn’t hindsight wonderful?  Just re-installed VB5 because there’s an old VB project I need to modify and saw this in the install screens…

vb5setup

“software that automatically downloads and installs on a user machine”.  Now who would ever have thought that could be a problem, eh?