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In recent years, Microsoft has made major strides in building up its community outreach. The company has invited bloggers to special events and conferences, established a “Featured Communities” program, and even actively sought feedback from enthusiasts for Windows Vista. Now, The Microsoft.com Community Technologies Team is taking that effort one step further by launching a series of beta Web sites
Wow it looks like tickets for the UK leg of the Live Earth concerts in July are more than three times over-subscribed, with 203,000 people having registered for the 60,000 available! I myself haven’t received a text message yet confiming wether or not I’ve been successful in the ticket ballot for the chance to get two tickets, but hopefuly I should
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In March 2007, Google Sites captured 48.3 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.2 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 27.5 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.9 percent), Ask
The second day of The Future of Web Design 2007 conference is today and though unfortunately I am not there to enjoy it. My friend Robert Gale is and while there he has been kind enough to send me this photo of a Conference Water Bottle which is advertising Microsoft Water… whoops I mean Microsoft Expression… Got to love Microsoft
If you haven’t heard or read about it yet, WordPress 2.2 will be released this coming April the 22nd which is less than a week away now. Many WordPress users are excited and looking forward to this release because of the following features: New User Features Tagging support Permalink redirection Improved comment editing Developer / Power User Stuff Atom 1.0 support
Well after much thorough testing (after the fiasco last time) I’ve now upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.1.3, and in addition to that addition I’ve also updated the blog theme from Lush v0.99.8 to Fresh-Compact v1.2 with some added improvements from Praveen Kumar’s version as well as some of my own improvements. I hope you will enjoy this new theme
Windows Live Hotmail has just been launched in Belgium and India. These two countries join the Netherlands, with more rollouts expected over the next few weeks. The UK and France are the most likely to see the launch of Windows Live Hotmail next as selected beta testers from these countries have been informed that Windows Live Hotmail is currently in
In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the Internet age. But rather than corn or cows, this farm teems with computer servers and data storage systems that will serve as the backbone of Microsoft’s effort to combat escalating competition on the Web from Google and others. Microsoft’s new data center in Quincy,
Microsoft has released the following statement by Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation, on the proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google: This proposed acquisition raises serious competition and privacy concerns in that it gives the Google DoubleClick combination unprecedented control in the delivery of online advertising, and access to a huge amount of consumer information by tracking
Today at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB2007), Microsoft officially unveiled Microsoft Silverlight, previously called Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E). Microsoft Silverlight, is a new cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Early supporters of the new platform include Akamai Technologies Inc., Brightcove Inc., Eyeblaster Inc., Limelight