jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 13 2008 | microsoft, search, Software
Quoted: Yahoo said Saturday night that it had rejected a renewed proposal by Microsoft, together with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn, to buy the Internet ...
- jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2008 | microsoft, online, internet
Quoted: Since 1993, Microsoft has been struggling to maintain its leadership position as the Internet has grown ubiquitous.
- jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2008 | microsoft, cloud
WSJ's Vauhini Vara decides to do everything in the cloud for a week . . . and has a few problems.
Quoted: I decided to test the software-is-obsolete premise by going for a week without the desktop programs installed on my computer, such as Microsoft's Word and ...
- jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | video, books, microsoft, adobe, ebooks
Blog by Bill McCoy of Adobe on ebooks. The beta version of Adobe Digital Editions he describes finally allowed me to rescue 17 ebooks I bought from Amazon from an old laptop computer, to which they had been tied for a couple of years. NB: Microsoft has to share blame for that as well. I tried to restore a backup of the laptop to run in VMWare, but the activation restrictions on the OEM version of Windows XP wouldn't allow it to start up.
- jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 01 2007 | search, microsoft, apple
Quoted: Windows Vista, for instance, has been saddled with the slogan "The Wow Starts Now" and an ad campaign that claims the OS leaves users speechless ...
- jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2007 | apple, microsoft
Fascinating comparison of the font philosophy of the two companies, reflecting deeper truths about them as well.
Quoted: Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out ...
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