“Depending on the nature of your response, Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!’s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal.”
Part of Microsoft’s letter to the Yahoo board of directors that reserves the right to pursue a likely hostile takeover attempt [...]
Microsoft have updated their Docx /open XML plugin for Mac office users. The add on requires Office 2004 or Office v.X in order to work and will not work with the upcoming Office 2008 which is due for release in January.
Docx Office file converter for mac
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The update extends the expiration [...]
Things must be bad when Becta, the UK department of education IT advisory agency, of all people decides to report Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading. When I worked in education and IT support it was hard to get anybody to think outside the box in terms of the true cost of licensing and [...]
BBC’s iPlayer which allows UK television viewers to play catch up with BBC TV and radio programmes ran into a bit of trouble when Microsoft’s Windows Media player was chosen as its primary method of delivery and so locking out a percentage of license fee paying Mac and Linux computer users.
A hurried decision following the [...]
(A larger and clearer 2.4Mb mpeg4 version is available here)
(A separate 3.6Mb mpeg4 video of the tree view search option is here)
Out of curiosity I tried Microsoft’s new Tafiti search which requires Silverlight , their rich Internet application technology which is available for Windows and Mac OS X. If you don’t have Silverlight [...]
