Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007 to businesses

At a press conference at NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the business availability of the Windows Vista operating system, the 2007 release of Microsoft Office, and a host of other new product offerings designed to enable businesses to thrive in a world of instant communication, expanding information and constant change.Today’s announcement that

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Pixelotto Public Launch Tuesday the 5th of December 2006

Remember Alex Tew and his pixel website The Million Dollar Homepage? Well I certainly do as I was one of the first to buy a spot on The Million Dollar Homepage in early september, and haden’t heard anything from him since, well that is until I got his email today. Seems like he’s now back in action with a new pixel website called Pixelotto which

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MSN Shopping Sees Record Traffic From Holiday Gift Buyers

Shoppers rang in the traditional start of the holiday gift-buying season with unprecedented traffic on MSN Shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend.From the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday in the retail industry, through Cyber Monday, the unofficial kickoff of the online holiday shopping season, MSN Shopping (http://shopping.msn.com) recorded 21 percent more visits compared with the same period in 2005.

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Microsoft Adcenter Coupon Codes

I’m sure there are quite a few of you out there wanting to try Microsoft/MSN AdCenter, but just don’t have a lot to spend on actually seeing some results! So well now’s your chance to give it a go because Microsoft is offering a $100/$200 credit for new accounts. All you have to do is sign-up for a $5.00 account

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Interview with Kent IT Clinic (KITC) Next Week!

Looks like next week I’ll be having an Interview with Kent IT Clinic Co-ordinator David Soud as next term at the University of Kent at Medway one of the modules I’ll be taking is IT Consultancy Practice which involves working with The Kent IT Clinic (KITC), which provides consultancy, computer systems support and software development services to small and micro-enterprises in

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Britons make more time for friendship than ever before

BRITONS MAKE MORE TIME FOR FRIENDSHIP THAN EVER BEFORE Modern friendship study reveals the average Brit has 21 more friends than in 2003  The average number of friends a person in Britain has today is 54, a rise of 64% compared to 2003, according to the ‘Windows Live: Anatomy of Friendship Report’, a comprehensive study of the friendship patterns of

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Email your 2006 wishlists to Santa’s MSN Hotmail address

Santa and his helpers have been busy this year trying to keep up with today’s high tech kids. Building on the success of last year’s new Hotmail account that allowed kids to email Santa instead of mailing a letter, the big guy has created his own website and blog so he can keep in touch with all the good little

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Taiwan telco offers MSN/Windows Live Messenger

Far Eastone Telecommunications in Taiwan has begun offering MSN/Windows Live Messenger to users of i-mode mobile phones, one of just a handful of companies offering the service globally. The launch of the service also makes Far Eastone the first company in Taiwan to offer MSN/Windows Live Messenger, the Taiwanese company said Wednesday. Users will be able to send instant messages over