November 2006

Microsoft Launches Vista, Office 2007 & Exchange Server

November 30, 2006

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, announced the launch of Windows Vista on Thursday.  The launch is the largest attempt by Microsoft in five years to put Windows on top of the OS world.  Ballmer predicts an international install of 200 million users by the end of 2007. In addition, Microsoft has launched both Microsoft Office [...]

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Google Does Lose Once In a While

November 30, 2006

Google is shutting down Google answers after only four years in operation.  The service charges the person asking the question.  On the other side of the fence, Yahoo Answers is thriving from all indications.  Yahoo doesn’t charge for their service. Google isn’t as perfect as one might think.  They need a little elbow room too [...]

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French Drop Microsoft for Open Source

November 29, 2006

The French finally did something smart.  The parliament voted to drop Microsoft for open source platforms for all their government computers.  Linux, Firefox, and OpenOffice will complete the new computer platform. Linux replaces Windows, FireFox replaces Internet Explorer, and OpenOffice replaces Microsoft’s Office suite.  Linux, FireFox, and OpenOffice cost nothing and the combination is very [...]

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Web Applications Replacing Traditional Software

November 25, 2006

 Two years ago the term Web 2.0 was coined by the technology industry.  The phrase is easily misinterpreted as a newer and faster version of the Internet.  A select number of universities are developing a newer generation of the Internet dubbed as the Internet 2, but it is not the same as the Web 2.0. [...]

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Send Another Large File….

November 24, 2006

Previously I posted information on sending extremely large file via e-mail without violating your ISP‘s space limitation policy.  YouSendIt limits the size of files, via e-mail, to 100 MB. Pando Networks, Inc. is another similar service, but their file size limitation is 1 GB.  Pando offers a different approach.  Their product is downloaded to your [...]

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