Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Microsoft Silicon Valley Product and Career Open House 2006

Microsoft Silicon Valley is hosting a Product and Career Open House for 2006 to feature products and career opportunities in Silicon Valley, so if you’re looking to get into any of the following sections: Microsoft TV Macintosh Business Unit TV Services Live Meeting Windows Live Mail PowerPoint Windows Live Search Operations Xbox Hardware I would like to recommend that you

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The World’s Largest IM Network for May 2006

So you may have already heard that MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger is the World’s Largest IM (Instant Messaging) Network for May 2006, but have you actually seen the some of the stats from ComScore’s May 2006 Report where it reports MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger has 204m subscribers, Yahoo! Messenger 78m, AIM 34m and ICQ 33.9m. Well if not here’s a

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Windows Live Expo has launched out of Beta in the US

I was away for two days this week so I didn’t have a chance to blog about this up until now, but it seems like Windows Live Expo has now launched out of Beta in the US and at the same time is going into Beta internally in the UK. This new release includes some of the following exciting features:

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Virtual PC 2004 Is Now Free!

Not long ago Microsoft made Virtual Server 2005 R2 Free for Download, but as most people wanted to try Virtual PC instead, they have now made Virtual PC 2004 Free for Download as well. But it dosent stop there because in 2007 Microsoft will also be releasing Virtual PC 2007 for free along with support for Microsoft Windows Vista. So why not

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Win one of 100 Amazing New Philips Messenger Phones

Now’s your chance to win one of 100 amazing new Philips Messenger Phones by helping a little blue contact buddy find his little green friend, just check out this site for more information. Make phone calls to your Messenger contacts for free The Philips Messenger Phone will display all your Windows Live Messenger contacts and their presence (online, busy, be

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Team BritBot: Invasion of the Robots

Microsoft is challenging developers worldwide to create conversational Bots for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. The most original, useful Bots will collect £1000s in total prizes. And you can win loads more cool prizes when you enter the UK competition running alongside the global Robot Invaders contest! The first 50 Bot designers to sign up at www.britbot.co.uk will get