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Be nice Microsoft
This is what you see when you try to log on to the Microsoft Partners website using my preferred browser, FireFox: Despite their charm offensive and attempts to be more open, old habits die hard.
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Windows Vista service pack 1
Microsoft have announced that service pack 1 for Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing. Microsoft claim “great progress in performance, reliability and compatibility”. SP1 will be rolled out...
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The great digital certificate ripoff?
Ripoff: A ripoff (or rip-off) is a bad deal. Usually it refers to an incident in which a person pays too much for something. A ripoff is distinguished from a scam in that a scam involves wrongdoing...
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Microsoft adCenter over reporting conversions
I have long suspected that Microsoft adCenter is over reporting conversions. Here is the confirmation from my adCenter reporting: I am guessing that the purchaser visited the ‘thank you for your...
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Unlock new customers?
Microsoft Adcenter helpfully sent me a link to lists of low cost keywords I could advertise on, categorised by sector, to “unlock new customers”. I had a quick look through the ‘sport and rec’ list....
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Mac OS X market share accelerates in 2008
2008 was a good year for Apple and Mac OS X. According to netapplications.com data (via sharewarepromotions blog) Mac OS X’s share of the OS market increased from 7.31% in Dec 2007 to 9.63% in Dec...
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Getting ready for Windows 7
I am currently downloading the new Windows 7 release candiate. It is 2.36 GB and the ActiveX download control predicts it will take around 10 hours in total (NB I am also doing a large FTP upload,...
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What are they smoking in Redmond?
I scanned the Microsoft ad below from a recent QBS catalogue. click for larger image I am still struggling to understand the underlying message. Use Team System and Microsoft will get its tentacles...
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Apple resort to FUD marketing
Apple have resorted to ugly FUD marketing in their latest ad. This seems a bit rich given that Mac OS X 10.6 has a bug that can delete all your user data. Posted in Apple, MacOSX, marketing, Microsoft,...
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App stores set to dominate future software sales?
Following the success of the iPhone app store (over 6 billion downloads to date), app stores are becoming more and more of a feature of the software landscape. In case you missed it, Apple announced...
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