Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Windows Live Dinner at Gabrielle’s in London

Ok well I’m now safely back home after attending an informal Windows Live Dinner at Gabrielle’s last night in London, this event was organised and paid for by heaven.fr, an online marketing and communication agency for MSN Europe. I wanted to mention that heaven.fr paid for this because I think it was really great of them to do this, especially considering

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MSN Europe’s hello messenger quiz game

Are you a msn messenger expert? Find out now by playing Msn’s “hello messenger quiz” were all you have to do is answer three simple questions for the chance to win some instant prizes. Netherlands Hallo Messenger? Quiz http://hallomessengerquiz.msn.nl UK Hello Messenger Quiz http://www.hellomessengerquiz.co.uk/ Denmark Hallo Messenger? Quiz http://www.hallomessengerquiz.dk/ Belgium Allo Messenger Quiz http://www.allo-messenger-fr.be/ Belgium Hallo Messenger Quiz http://www.allo-messenger.be/ Sweden Yo Messenger! http://yomessenger.msn.se/ Norway

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Question & Answers: Microsoft’s EU court battle

Microsoft was fined millions of euros by the European Commission two years ago and today Microsoft has started it’s fight back in the European Court to get that money back and argue that it’s been treated badly, but this time it’s not just money that is at stake but the reputacion of both Microsoft and the  European Commission, here’s part of a Question & Answers article from the BBC about the

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Net Neutrality Video

Check this Net Neutrality Video out; its a little video that explains why discrimination on the Internet is a problem and will continue to be as long as net neutrality rules are not enforced, those of you who understand nothing or very little about net neutrality should understand this very well as it’s been made as straight-forward as possible. Thanks

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Earth Day 2006: Microsoft goes solar!

Microsoft Campuses are now going solar panel powered or at least they have started too, Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus was the first to install the new solar panels as a commemorative for Earth Day 2006, hopefully it will be a success and we will start too see Solar panels being used on other Microsoft Campuses and Buildings other than just

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The Queen’s (Queen Elizabeth II) 80th birthday

So it was the Queen’s (Queen Elizabeth II) 80th birthday today, but unfortunately I was at work nearly all day so I have only just came round to blogging about it and seeing what happened today, but know I would like to know what everybody else thought about the celebrations today, and also did anybody go to any of them,

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Windows Live Mail African Safari Sweepstakes!

Ben Poon yesterday announced on the Windows Live Mail beta team blog that the Windows Live Mail beta is expanding to 3 million users and that as an incentive for users to try it out they are letting users sign up for the Windows Live Mail African Safari Sweepstakes, which will give users the chance to win an African Safari trip for

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Microsoft is planning on developing a Windows Live Drive

Mary Jo Foley from Microsoft-Watch has today revealed that the Msn team at Microsoft is planning on developing a new virtual hard drive service for Windows Live, currently code-named Live Drive, it will provide users with a virtual hard drive for storing hosted personal data, here’s an extract from the article: “Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer

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Use Gabbly to chat on any webpage!

Ever heard of Gabbly? It’s been around for a month or so now but is only now really starting to catch on.Basically Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around on any webpage by simply typing gabbly.com/ in front of a webpage’s URL; like this you will be able to chat with anyone else visiting the page at