Despite rumors to the contrary, but in keeping with the schedule that was posted months ago, Microsoft is planning to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 in late 2005, not in early 2006. According to internal documentation, Vista Beta 2 is scheduled to be “feature complete” by September 29, 2005. Then, Vista Beta 2 will enter lockdown mode between October and
I found this posted at Chris’s Msn Space today, what do you think about it, will this really work? What is the MSN Customer Network Initiative (CNI)? “[MSN CNI] is a web-based product for pre-releasing service and application software to the world. Our product is designed to grow our partner’s pre-release programs from thousands to millions of customers through a
Here’s an extract of a classic letter to Google Talk from Leah the Program Manager of MSN Messenger. But I love this about us, I love that we’re so different because it means that we have a lot to learn from each other. Maybe you will build up a robust feature set and I will improve my usability. Maybe your
This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting ‘Starry Night’. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images. See it here
NASA is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery by sending a new probe to Pluto called Horizons. But here’s to good part and that is that you can actually have your name on it, now isn’t that great, all you have to do is visit the site and give them your full name, please be aware that the e-card
The Internet Browser Opera is now 10 years old and to celebrate it they are going to an online anniversary party held on its own site which will commence on Tuesday, August 30th 2005, 3PM CET. Visit it now
There’s a post over at Microsoft’s Channel 9 Website which contains a comic strip about Google and what it’s really doing, this post was posted by Jamie a member of the site becuase he wanted to honour the 10 most recent google threads there. 🙂 It’s quite a laugh! See it here
Ok so I have now reached 100 posts on my blog this post being post number 100! I think I’ve done very well with my blog considering that I actually didn’t think I would but I can safely say now, so far so good, it’s all going to plan. I’ve learned a lot from this blog and the things I’ve
It’s now one o’clock in the morning here in the UK and I would just like to say that I’ve finally finished reading The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver and I would just like to say thank you to Lianne (elnube) for recommending it to me and that I too would like to recommend it as it truly was a