Microsoft

Updated Post with more new under the hood features of IE 8.
In the recent news it was announced that IE 8 Passes the ACID 2 test and will render in standard mode by default. The folks at Neowin have managed to uncover links to Internet Explorer 8 Download page and also a list of upcoming […]

Damn just when I was going to do a blog post predicting that the reason why Microsoft is so quiet about IE 8 is because they want to surprise everyone and I was right. This is going to make Opera look really bad. The IE blog latest post says that IE 8 has passed the […]

George Ou who writes for the security column at ZDNET did an analysis of security for Mac OS and Windows using data from impartial Secunia. The Results maybe pretty surprising depending on what your views are regarding MAC Vs PC. I am personally not surprised but I certainly didn’t expect such a big difference. I […]

Everybody loves to hate Microsoft. If you don’t thrash talk about Microsoft or IE you are not considered a Uber Web Geek. Opera took upon it self to sue Microsoft by complaining to the European Commission and force them to follow web standards. And its the lamest thing they could do. At least some people […]

Did you know you can test drive Office 2007(Excel,word, IE 7.0 etc) from the comfort of your browser. All you required to have is JAVA and install a small Java Plugin take a look here. Unfortunately this works only in IE, but believe me it can work on any Browser that supports Java. I know […]

Microsoft has released FastCGI for IIS. Also did you know that PHP on IIS is about 10-15% faster than on Apache(Linux). Here a list of guides to installing Popular Open Source Php Applications on IIS. You can install IIS only If You have Windows XP Professional version. Here is a guide to installing WordPress on […]

One of the very few apple ads that I completely agree with. One of the Biggest screw ups with Vista are the various different version.

The Window Live Messenger Team has launched a web based Messenger widget that can be embedded in blogs and website. This is similar to the widgets provided by meebome.com and plugoo.com. But unlike meebo and plugoo which are flash based this widget is javascript based. Using this widget even anonymous users who visit your blog […]

If you don’t know what I am referring to then take a look at this article from Paul Graham that claimed Microsoft was Dead and caused a major ruckus in the BlogSphere a while back, with most blogger agreeing blindly. Right after which we had Surface, Vista, Silverlight, .NET 3.0 3.5, WPF, ZUNE and the […]

Well I never thought I would be a making a blog post praising the ZUNE. A year ago when the Zune 1 was launched it was bashed left and right by everyone. With the release of Zune 2 Microsoft has received nothing but praise. And as usual TechCrunch had the only ZUNE bashing post, talk […]

Update: Looks like MS closed this again. better luck next time.
People always seem to be finding loops on Microsoft’s site to get themselves @live email address. This is like the 3rd or 4th time Url hacks have been discovered. I managed to get clazh[@]live.com last year.

Go to www.hotmail.com, click on Sign up, and choose a […]

Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management System for music and video has been cracked, this allows people to strip their music and video free of the DRM restrictions and to allow unrestricted use of their music and video. This isn’t the first time it has been cracked (hacker have cracked it twice before). Just like how apple […]

Mary Jo Foley reports that her source in MS confirmed that Service pack for windows Vista will be out in the middle of july. Here’s what’s there in the Windows Vista Service pack 1.

Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files and shut down Vista machines (Yeah, I know Microsoft said […]

Microsoft is getting on the the Web 2.0 Bandwagon slowly. They recently announced the Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery, both of which are in Closed Beta. I just realized that I was part of the Windows Live Folders Beta tester. I gave it a test run. The Live Folders is nothing ground […]

If you are a Microsoft fan or would simply like to visit Redmond and take a look around, here’s a quick way to get them to fly you to Redmond for free and give you the red carpet treatment. GET A ZUNE TATTOO. Yes its that simple, I am what the heck its just a […]