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Microsoft still a haven for irony

Submitted by Damien on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 4:11am

Microsoft's latest ads, that attempts to Apple's "I'm a PC" persona in a different light, are not without their irony. I turns out that the ads were actually compiled on a Mac. Go figure.

Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.

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Working around Exchange Webmail / OWA constant logoffs

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 7:03am

I've always found that Exchange's webmail system, aka "Outlook Web Access", to be extremely buggy regarding remembering who you are. It sets sessions cookies with a pretty far-away timeout but regardless of whether I'm connected via a VPN or from the public internet it always delights in logging me out as quickly as it can. Well, I've worked out a work-around for these all too frequent occurrences. Here's what you do:

Vista is infinitely breakable, megap0wnd!

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 1:23pm

Good news today via /. as a research team have discovered fundamental flaws in Windows Vista that make its "security" system completely useless and unable to be fixed to stop the flaw. In other words, WIndows Vista is broken and cannot be fixed. Yay :-)

Windows Vista's security platform rendered useless

Time for my D&D half-orc persona's ceremony of choice.

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Fifth sign of apocalypse - Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 1:42pm

An unbelievable story item today - Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo for $44 billionMicrosoft wants to buy Yahoo for $44 billion. Yowzers. If that isn't the fifth sign of the apocalypse then I don't know what is.

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The world wisens up about OOXML

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 3:29pm

The world is finally realizing that Microsoft’s OOXML “format” is the old dog’s usual tricks - incomplete, relies heavily on undocumented tricks to work, which puts full control back in their hands. This week both Brazil and India have decided to vote “no” at the upcoming ISO meeting where OOXML’ s fate will be decided.

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