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Microsoft denies alleged Hiring Freeze
Sunday, October 5th, 2008“It is not true that we have instituted a hiring freeze.What is true is that we are evaluating hiring as we always do and we might make projections that are different than perhaps we had at the beginning of the year.” said Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spoke…
Yahoo’s Home Page: Get A big Makeover
Monday, September 15th, 2008It was reported last September 12 that Yahoo Inc. will spend time and money for the controversial makeover of its Home Page which will happen soon for the next few months. The makeover is said to be their step to regain the supremacy in the internet se…
Google Chrome - a Maverick internet browser?
Friday, September 5th, 2008Tomorrow is supposed to be an historic day for the Blogger community of the Philippines, that’s because a Wordcamp is taking place in Manila for the first time. It’s too bad I’m booked to fly to Manila on the 18th instead which concludes how impractical it is for me to decide to fly in earlier [...]
Google Chrome - a Maverick internet browser?
Friday, September 5th, 2008Tomorrow is supposed to be an historic day for the Blogger community of the Philippines, that’s because a Wordcamp is taking place in Manila for the first time. It’s too bad I’m booked to fly to Manila on the 18th instead which concludes how impractical it is for me to decide to fly in earlier [...]
Hilarious Bill Gates Goodbye Video
Friday, June 27th, 2008I’m sure a lot of you are aware of Apple’s unabashed bashing of PC (symbolised by a Bill Gates look-alike) in their Mac commercials. Surprisingly, it appears to me that the funniest video I’ve seen that pokes fun of BG is one made by the people from the Microsoft camp! You have got to watch [...]
Yahoo: To Regroup
Friday, June 20th, 2008It is being reported that controversial YAHOO company has planned to reorganize. According to rumors, this is due to the failed bid by MICROSOFT to take over YAHOO and which cause some of the executives being dismayed and had planned to leave the compa…
Yahoo — Yang’s Yin no more
Sunday, June 15th, 2008When TechCrunch, ZDNet and other notable online publications and blogs trash a company or an individual, techies and people who spend a lot of time on the Internet will invariably take notice. But when it’s the venerable The New York Times that does the lambasting, virtually nobody will miss it.
In a recent article in this [...]
Bill Gates goodbye in tech-ed keynote
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Bill Gates keynote at Tech·Ed Developers conference at Orlando served as a preview of some of Microsoft’s soon to be released technology. Some of the mentioned technologies/data oriented products were; the go live edition of silverlight 2, a new data …
Microsoft acquired Kidaro’s tech
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Desktop virtualization is getting more better with Microsoft technology (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)) and Kidaro’s technology which produces new desktop virtualization product called Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. This prod…
Microsoft says GOODBYE to Yahoo!
Monday, May 5th, 2008I really thought that someday of this year, Microsoft and Yahoo, two great companies will fuse into one giant team-up, despite of the rumors that Yahoo had rejected $44.6 billion cash-and-stock offer to Microsoft. But then, May 3 of this year, Microsof…
Blogging Tool: Windows Live Writer
Sunday, April 13th, 2008I recently discovered a new blogging tool which can make our blogging experience better and more exciting. Windows Live Writer is a WYSIWYG standalone application which is used in authoring blog content. This blogging application supports a wide range of blogging platforms which uses API’s for content publishing. Among those currently supported by Windows [...]
Why Microsoft wants Yahoo!
Friday, April 11th, 2008Why does Microsoft want to acquire Yahoo? Is it because the software giant perceives an impending loss of share in the OS and office-productivity software markets? Research analysts from Gartner Research think so, but I have my doubts.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1: Available now!
Thursday, March 6th, 2008As i browsed Microsoft’s download page, i found out that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is definitely available for downloading. And take note, it is available for Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008,Windows Vista x64 Edition and Windows Server 2008 x64 Edit…
Internet Explorer 8 and Its Technical Challenge
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008One of the issues being raised by some of the IE7 users or even me, is that some of the sites showed in IE7 looked really bad but not with IE6. The reason?”The reason was that the sites had worked around IE6 issues with content that – when viewed wit…
Yahoo and Microsoft: Joining Forces against Google?
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008It was circulating in the internet world, Yahoo and Microsoft; teaming up to defeat Google’s Top power on the Search engine advertising market. But this was failed, after yahoo rejecting Microsoft’s US$44.6 billion cash-and-stock offer, and saying Offe…
Windows Vista SP1: Soon to unleash
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008As what Mike Nash of the Windows Vista Team said, “I’ve personally been running Windows Vista SP1 pretty exclusively for a few months and I’ve noticed that my systems run faster and more reliably than they did with the “Gold” release of Windows Vista.”…
Stephen Elop: New Microsoft Leader
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008“Stephen Elop is a 44 year old individual who stretches his wings to MICROSOFT.”Elop has mostly worked at midsized tech firms, not behemoths such as Microsoft Corp. with its 79,000 employees. Macromedia, where he was CEO, had 1,500 employees at the tim…
Microsoft being sued by SEC
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Inquirer.net reported yesterday that a college in Pasay City, the Southeastern College (SEC), is bringing a lawsuit against software giant, Microsoft Corp., and its in-country subsidiary, Microsoft Philippines. The case is that MS Phils. has allegedly infringed on copyright laws, in that the college’s intellectual property rights were allegedly encroached upon.
The news article elaborated that [...]
DocSyncer updates service: You can now choose which folders to synchronize
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007DocSyncer, a service that synchronizes Microsoft Office documents in your computer with your Google Docs account, has just updated its application to allow you to choose which folders should be synchronized.
When I first tested it (read the previous post), it immediately synchronized all compatible files in the desktop and the My Documents folder. It offered [...]
Synchronize Microsoft Office documents with Google Docs using DocSyncer
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007I finally got an invitation to try out DocSyncer, a service that allows you to automatically synchronize Microsoft Office files in your PC—documents, presentations, and spreadsheets—with your Google Docs account.
DOCSYNCER. The service synchronizes your Microsoft Office documents with your Google Docs account. It’s still being tested and far from being a dependable day-to-day application. [...]
Top-Selling Music Player - Microsoft’s Zune
Saturday, December 1st, 2007The most popular Christmas gift this holiday season and top-selling music player is Microsoft’s Zune. This is the Hot Item in Amazon’s where it is the “Bestsellers in Electronics” and beats its competitor Apples’ new iPod Nano and the 80GB iPod in term of sales.
A report by the Associated Press says there’s a shortage of [...]
Microsoft’s Zune Still Fails against Apple’s iPod
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Microsoft’s Zune was developed as killer competitor of Apple’s iPod but until now it’s far from dethroning iPod. Here in the Philippines i still have to heard anyone who owns a Zune and can proudly displaying it against mostly iPod users here particulary in Davao City. Myself is a fan and user of Apple’s iPod [...]
Microsoft Wins Patent Suit
Friday, November 16th, 2007Thursday, November 15, 2007 6:00 Prime Minister PST Recommend this story? Please Wait…Microsoft won a patent of invention difference over engineering that assists computing machines boot up faster Thursday. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Cou…
RP Police Seized 200 Computers With Fake Microsoft Software
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 14 Mar) – Police on Wednesday seized some 200 computer sets running on counterfeit Microsoft software in two separate raids in the southern Philippine city of Davao.Police said members of the Criminal Investigation and…
Microsoft training & certification
Thursday, March 8th, 2007iThink Technologies, an IT training facility in Davao, launched its Microsoft training and certification program today at The Venue. Together with iThink was Microsoft Philippines and edupro inc., a Manila-based training institute and Microsoft-Certified Partner for Learing Solutions.
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor 1.0
Thursday, March 1st, 2007Will you upgrade to Windows Vista?Microsoft released a tool for Windows XP users that will tell what hardware and software you need to upgrade or if you need to upgrade at all.Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor will scan your current pc and determine whethe…
Microsoft’s List of Verified Vista Apps
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Microsoft has just released a list of applications that have earned the Vista Certified Logo. These applications are officially supported on Windows Vista.Software applications that has been tested as part of Microsoft’s Vista Certification Program for…
Microsoft’s Digital House of Ice to promote Windows Vista
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007This is part of Microsoft’s half a billion dollars Windows Vista marketing worldwide. Another way of showing how cool Windows Vista is, Microsoft construct a 1,800 square foot structure “Digital House” made completely of ice in Toronto, Canada.more cov…
Try Windows Vista with your browser…
Friday, February 2nd, 2007wow this is cool… a very impressive emulation of Microsoft Windows Vista using WPF/E(Windows Presentation Foundation/ Everywhere…) - is a browser enhancement module that enables browsers to render rich content in addition to HTML. ‘WPF/E” is c…
the WOW starts now!
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007wow after over 5 years Microsoft released their new operating system Windows Vista, which many claimed it was just a copycat of Apple’s OS X.for me Windows Vista looks similar to OS X but with a wider support of applications.