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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Omniture to Measure Impact of Microsoft’s i’m Initiative

Omniture, Inc. a leading provider of online business optimization software, yesterday announced it will work with Microsoft on its new Windows Live Messenger i’m Initiative. Every time a customer has a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with the participating i’m Initiative organization of his or her choice — creating a simple and effective way

By - Darren Straight

Windows Vista ‘Ease of Access’ Backdoor Logon

Follwing my recent post about removing or disabling the Ease of Access Icon, located in the lower left hand corner of the Windows Vista login screen. I just found an article titled “Windows Vista – Backdoor Logon” which exlains to you a method which you can use to exploit the ‘Ease of Access’ menu at the bottom of a regular Windows

By - Darren Straight

Disabling Ease of Access on the Windows Vista login screen

It looks like quite a few people out there (here, here and here) would like to know how to go about removing or disabling the Ease of Access Icon which is located in the lower left hand corner of the Windows Vista login screen as you first boot up to Windows Vista or when you lock the screen. Well it looks like a

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Hotmail launches in Spain the 25th of April!

In a weeks time, the 25th of April to be exact, Microsoft will finally launch Windows Live Hotmail in Spain (España). This exact date of when Windows Live Hotmail will launch in Spain (España) comes from a recent press inviatation that was sent out. In it also states “actualmente hay más de 9 millones de cuentas activas de Hotmail en España.” which