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June 3rd, 2008

More Integration of Windows Update

After hopefully finding a solution to my wife’s laptop problems, I began wondering to myself, why in the world didn’t Windows Update notice there were BIOS updates available for my wife’s laptop?
Although my wife is running Vista, you can tell from the graphic to the left from my Windows XP Pro machine that Windows […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

June 5th, 2007

Is Microsoft Making Us Dumber

Could Microsoft be responsible for making all of us stupid? I shouldn’t really narrow Microsoft down in general among all the other tech vendors, but the original article on WXPNews was about Microsoft I’ll continue to run with it.
The argument is this:
With every iteration of another piece of software or operating system, the developers continue […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 15th, 2007

DirectX 10 Still Only Available for Vista?

Originally Microsoft planned to only have DirectX 10 available for machines running their new Vista operating system. However, with less than stellar sales of the new operating system and people not running to jump on purchasing the new software like it’s a PS3 or Xbox 360, have caused the possibility of DirectX 10 becoming available […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

January 24th, 2007

OneCare Beta Is Ending

I received an e-mail yesterday from the Microsot OneCare Beta team letting me know the beta program would be ending at the end of February and I would need to uninstall and purchase a full version of the software.
We wanted to give you advance notice that the (v1.5) beta will be coming to a close […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 22nd, 2006

Microsoft Charity Pricing Program

Nine months ago was the first time I had ever really heard of Microsoft’s Charity Pricing program and that’s when Jason Powell introduced me to it before.
Now Jason reminds us again of this great opportunity that Microsoft provides to charities.
Link to Microsoft’s charity pricing list … it gives all the SKU’s and retail prices open […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 16th, 2006

Software vs. Service

With the recent changes mentioned at Microsoft and Ray Ozzie beginning to take over the reigns from Bill Gates. Microsoft’s products will begin to take on more of a service mentality than the software mentality that’s built Microsoft to what it is today. But what’s the big difference?
Software is a single product, one-time sale type […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 16th, 2006

Role Changes at Microsoft

Big news today is that the man himself has said he’ll be reducing his role dramatically by 2008. Much of his role will begin to be filled by Ray Ozzie, who’s big push is to change Microsoft into more of a “services” organization and not so much software. Granted, the two of those could be […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments