For some stupid reason which I have no idea… I got 3 calls from a call centre while I was at home trying to work today. It got to be a bit of joke by the second call because with … Continue reading
July 16, 2011
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March 10, 2011
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Kinect the fast growing, all down to the hackers
Microsoft announced today that it has sold 10 million Kinect sensors since the Xbox 360 accessory launched in November. In addition, Microsoft reported that over 10 million Kinect games have been sold. The global sales figures, according to a company … Continue reading
January 28, 2011
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Hacker friendly: Microsoft turns over a new leaf?
I never thought I’d see the day but it seems Microsoft have really got into the hacker spirit recently. I mean what would Bill Gates say about this new leaf of openness, who knows… but I can imagine a shudder … Continue reading
December 28, 2010
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Kinect for XBMC
Once Microsoft released a open source driver for the Kinect it made sense someone would release a hack/fix to support XBMC, Boxee and even Plex. Well of course it happened…of course there’s lots more on Kinect Hacks
December 7, 2010
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Time to hack the Pacemaker
I love my pacemaker but Tonium have really screwed the community of pacemaker djs. It started when they moved lets mix from a pacemaker community to a generic dj community. I understand the reason why they did it but the … Continue reading
December 6, 2010
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The end of the road for Windows Home Server?
Just read about the changes to the Windows Home Server on my Kindle via Ars Technica. Microsoft’s Windows Home Server is a funny little product. The company’s ambition when developing the product was to have us all run little home … Continue reading
July 3, 2010
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Microsoft's forward vision
I don’t get it. Ubuntu can be a server or a user system but its certainly not a home server. I have no idea what happened to the ubuntu homeserver project but Microsoft have got the upper hand when it … Continue reading
January 10, 2010
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Microsoft Joins W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics Effort
Brendan sent me this one last week, shocking news that Microsoft are joining the SVG working group. To be honest I never thought it would ever happen but hell has somewhat frozen over. “Microsoft is joining the World Wide Web … Continue reading
July 31, 2007
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Windows Home Server add-ons in the near future?
So I'm still having problems getting my XP laptop to back up to the home server but while looking around I found a load of ideas for what could be added to Windows Home Server to improve its experience even … Continue reading
February 14, 2007
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XSLT 2.0 supported by Microsoft?
At a time when the W3C just announced XSL 2.0 as a official recommendation. Kurt Cagle has the scoop. Microsoft has formally announced that with the publication of the XSLT 2.0 Recommendation the XML Team has commenced working on a … Continue reading
January 4, 2007
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Not moving to vista
What is going on with Windows Vista? I pledged not to move to Vista a while ago but after hearing about some of the major improvements (specially in the x64 version) I won't lie – I was tempted. I also … Continue reading
October 15, 2006
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Is XNA, Microsoft learning from the community?
I saw this a while ago and started thinking that XNA could be the result of this. A lot of interesting data came out of Ars Technica's interview with Matt Lee, a Microsoft software developer in the Xbox division. The … Continue reading
October 6, 2006
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Zune all about sharing of media?
I'm watching a video about the Microsoft Zune. Its quite interesting but there's not enough to make it much better than a ipod. The sharing has been talked about a lot but the thing which I think Microsoft missed is … Continue reading
October 1, 2006
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BBC issues recently
The BBC has been getting quite a lot of attention recently. I obviously can't say anything from a BBC perpective only my own personal view. So in lawyer speak, these are the views of myself and myself alone. They are … Continue reading
July 15, 2006
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SVG support in IE 7.2?
Don't know how I missed this in my aggregator but… Microsoft publicly stated IE will have core engine support for SVG in IE7.x (most likely 7.2) Honestly, I like to think this will happen, but I got a feeling there … Continue reading