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Multiple versions of IE

Monday, 24 November 2008  

A clever bloke by the name of Yousif Al Saif has come up with a way of having multiple versions of IE running on your windows workstation. Handy for us poor sods who still have to support what is probably the worst standards-compliant browser ever made.


Microsoft gives away fake prizes

Monday, 7 July 2008  

I got spammed by the giant of Redmond a couple of weeks ago, offering me “cool prizes”, just to search the web using their struggling search engine.

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Microsoft’s cashback and Yahoo

Monday, 2 June 2008  

Microsoft recently announced that it’s willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Microsoft aren’t after Google, they’re actually after Yahoo.

With their failed takeover attempt fresh in everyone’s minds, this might just be Microsoft’s “work with us or we’ll spend as much as we need to bury you” message to Yahoo.


Bruce Servicepack and the Vista Street Band

Monday, 28 April 2008  

A fake band with its own fake groupie in an embarrassing internal video promo which aims to get a corporation to eat its own dog food:

You’ll love the lyrics, I promise. Not to mention the enthusiastic jumps into the air, complete with freeze-frames.


Live advertising on Google

Monday, 17 March 2008  

Live advertisement on Google

I just noticed that Live now advertise on Google.

How peculiar that a Google’s competitor would pay money to Google, just to have a user redirected back to its own search engine results page.

Knowing that the overwhelming majority of our own visitors prefer Google, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Microsoft will spend lots of money, just to remain competitive as a minor player.

But paying for keywords and hoping users will click on the sponsored link instead of the organic results seems a bit naive to me.


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