Microsoft Weblog

August 15th, 2006

I’m getting tired of "Windows Live…."

I love the products, I’m just getting tired of everything beginning with “Windows Live…”
Would there be any confusion if it were just “Live…” so, maybe something like this:

Windows Live Writer = LiveWriter
Windows Live Search = LiveSearch
Windows Live Messenger = LiveMessenger
Windows Live Mail = LiveMail

Is that too simple? Why wouldn’t that work?
Tags: dead, Live, Microsoft, naming, […]

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July 26th, 2006

Domain Name Ownership - IE7.COM

How’d Microsoft let this one slip by? Wouldn’t you think they’d register pretty much any variation of a new project/application’s name?
www.ie7.com
It’s not what you’d expect.
Tags: browser, domains, Firefox, Internet, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Safari

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July 24th, 2006

Welcome Back to Me

Sorry folks for being away so long. Spent the last week down in New Orleans helping rebuild some areas still devastated by Katrina. I ended up not having the wi-fi access I was expecting. Wasn’t there a lot of talk about citywide, free wi-fi?
I went downtown one night and picked up a wireless network labeled […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

January 31st, 2006

Paul Allen Just Says “NO”

Mr. Allen has recently sacked six staff employees from his party boat for drug use. His “rich boy toy” is also widely used by other celebrites and business people. Interestingly enough, he’s also extending his zero-tolerance policy to them as well.
I would guess that most of his concern is over the act itself of having […]

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December 5th, 2005

Why do AOL employees love Microsoft?

Download Squad takes all of us by surprise by posting “Ten things we love about Microsoft“.
Tongue in cheek? Well, yes, a bit. Nitin Badjatia explains : “Here at Download Squad we know that the holiday spirit means more than just shopping for the coolest gadgets. … The holidays are also a great time to […]

By John -- 0 comments

November 30th, 2005

Shop in your undies, crows MSN

Cedric the Entertainer (Third from left) joins a crowd singing Christmas carols in New York’s Times Square, Nov. 29, 2005.
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Gimmicks galore. Anything to grab the attention of jaded shoppers already fed up with what has now become “the shopping season”. Here’s Microsoft’s latest press release in praise of […]

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November 2nd, 2005

Manhattan Retro-Chic at Microsoft

Must read : Om Malik.

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October 22nd, 2005

Is this the Microsoft cat?

Via Dave Winer
All organizations have a cat. If one isn’t adopted, a canny feline will find its way to HQ and adopt the CEO.
In the course of this blog’s researches into the many mysteries of Microsoft, one question couldn’t be ducked. What kind of cat chases the mice at Redmond? It would surely be […]

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October 13th, 2005

Scoble cranks up Wordpress.com blog

In a move not without controversy, Robert Scoble has shifted his Scobleizer blog from Radio.Weblogs to Wordpress.com. The controversy reared up over the special privileges he receives on the alpha-testing service. Matt Mullenweg, top brass at Wordpress, has admitted to personally hoisting Scoble’s famous header onto the site, a feature not available to other users, […]

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October 11th, 2005

What if … Microsoft didn’t exist?

There’s an amusing spoof over at ExtremeTech on the pretend scenario that Microsoft didn’t exist. Loyd Case imagines his day without the Beast of Redmond.
Interestingly, it’s not as wonderful as some might suppose. Software prices are very high ~ they’ve still got Wordstar, would you believe? Commodore remains a big player in the market, as […]

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