Category: Microsoft
iPhone and Exchange
Interesting news from Apple (read: Steve Jobs): the iPhone now supports Microsoft Exchange. Pretty cool. Too bad I’m stuck in a 2-year contract. But it’s okay, as I’d rather wait for the nth generation of the iPhone that I know will have more features and will have been tried-and-tested. Let’s see how this pans out…
Microsoft virtual launch
You can check out the virtual launch for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 here. You never know…Steve Ballmer may have another “developers, developers, developers” sweaty-armpit-speech. And why it’s called Heroes Happen Here, I don’t know. It’s worth looking into though.
Yahoo! to be Microsoft’s
For $44.6 Billion, Microsoft wants Yahoo!. If this happens, Google will now have a rival in its level and the Yahoo! and MSN messenger clients will be united, which is better for us. They’re saying the next company Microsoft will (aim to) purchase is AMD. We’ll see…
Microsoft Customer Support calls back 10 years later
You read the title right. A customer worried about Y2K had placed a call to Microsoft tech support 10 years ago, but only got a call back on 1/8/08. This is nuts! Here’s the explanation: The customer called on 1/7/98, and the rep noted a call back for the next day. Unfortunately, however, rather than…
Free Microsoft Press e-book offer
Just sign up with your Windows Live/Passport account and you can download all three e-books by Microsoft Press. It includes the following: Enjoy!
Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed
Here’s an interesting article that Bill Gates wrote for the BBC News web site, that talks about the skills one needs to succeed in any career.