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Today’s learning

Posted at 2:26pm on Monday, April 14th, 2008 by

You can’t do strike through in PowerPoint.  But that’s OK, because you can always replicate it using the drawing tool.

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A veritable lawyerclism

Posted at 5:14pm on Thursday, May 17th, 2007 by

You sue us, we sue you. The OIN threatens Microsoft with the nuclear option.

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Job Interview 2.0

Posted at 11:05am on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by

Apparently brain teasers are the new psychometric testing, or something. This is worth reading just for the payoff. It’s a “tea -> monitor” moment.

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Can it be the DRM?

Posted at 5:59pm on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 by

The horrifying possibility that Vista’s file deletion and copying problems may be in fact a ‘feature’ of the DRM is gaining some traction. Originally a conspiracy theory, more and more people are testing the case. Perhaps someone should make use of the Vista Bootkit to prove it once and for all?

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Ouch

Posted at 2:20pm on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 by

Ouch for Microsoft, at least. Dell gives the go ahead for Linux.

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Vista’s fine print, DRM and the general cost of being over a barrel

Posted at 8:48pm on Monday, January 29th, 2007 by

Doug puts it much more eloquently than me, so instead I will just point you at this article at the Toronto Star.

You can’t always get what you want

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99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows

Posted at 9:55pm on Friday, January 26th, 2007 by

This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation’s e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions because..,

Worth reading the rest…

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Patents; dontcha love em?

Posted at 11:47am on Friday, December 22nd, 2006 by

Yet another farcical American patent. This time it’s Microsoft attempting to patent RSS feeds and readers. Because of course, that was a Microsoft invention, wasn’t it?

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Does a ‘proper’ dictionary really cost that much?

Posted at 11:16am on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 by

UK users to pay 70% more for office than those in the US. Nice. Really nice.

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Vista. And how you may never upgrade your PC again

Posted at 3:57pm on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 by

You have to remember, it’s not your software. You’ve bought a license to use it in a way that they specify. Forget this at your peril… Apparently we will only be allowed one reactivation with Vista, and an unknown algorithm will decide when Microsoft think your machine has changed enough to need it. Phear.

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