Posts Tagged ‘ Microsoft ’

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta – Free Download

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta – Free Download

Microsoft is inviting you to work with Office Professional Plus 2010 on your secondary PCs in order to help ensure smooth adoption when the final product is available and gather feedback from real world settings. With Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, your people get a wide range of powerful new ways to do their best work from more places â’“ whether theyâ’re using a PC, smartphone or web browser. From insightful updates to Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook, to new server integration capabilities that make it easier for everyone to track, report and share vital information, Office Professional Plus...

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7 Sins of Windows 7

7 Sins of Windows 7

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) undertakes to promote the use of Free software among users and companies and started a new campaign to educate possible users of Windows 7 of the “Windows 7 Sins“: poisoning education invading privacy monopoly behaviour lock-in abusing standards enforcing digital restrictions management threatening user security Windows 7 Sins is an aggressive campaign. The Free Software Foundation has emailed 499 of the Fortune 500 companies (not included in mass email, Microsoft), with the subject heading “Important notice regarding impending lack of privacy, freedom and security from Microsoft Corporation” There is an unhealthy dependency on Microsoft...

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Marriage of IBM and Linux

Marriage of IBM and Linux

IBM and Red Hat(a leading provider of open source solutions) announced that Handelsbanken (one of the four largest banks in the Nordic Area) has achieved strong business continuity, security and cost-efficiency results by deploying virtualization technology using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z servers and IBM System z operating system, z/OS. The bank’s newly deployed technology solution will help maintain a highly resilient and secure network that scales based on business demands. (Read More . . .) One more step away from the Microsoft monopoly.

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Microsoft Scam

Microsoft Scam

I have a PC that installed XP professional around 2004.  This computer has always been with me from Washington DC, BGSU, Eau Claire (WI), Minneapolis (MN) and now in Ashland (WI). Granted for almost two years it sat in the closet until I had my own office area. I am now in the attic space I am pulling all my computers together for projects and freelance opportunities.  I boot up my XP Professional with a an issue – my XP Professional is not validated and it will cost me an additional $149.00 to make it legit. I did purchase...

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999 is the new 666

999 is the new 666

Kindle owners are staging an online protest over Kindle e-books that cost more than $9.99. The weapon they’re using is Amazon’s tagging system, as price offenders are getting hit with a special “9 99 boycott” tag. It is getting so popular that a Connecticut librarian C O’Brien, who daily tags Kindle’s over priced books with the  ’9 99 boycott’ tag and removing only when  price drops below the threshold.” Who’s fault for the high prices : Publishers, wait didn’t we hear that same song and dance with Apple and the iTunes? Where is the 999 boycott for Apple prices?...

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