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
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,
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
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
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
Earlier today I was just finishing of one of my college assignments when I thought that it would be a good idea to include a Web Server Survey Graph from Netcraft, I loaded up Netcraft.com and to my surprise instead of seeing the usual increase of Apache Web Serves being used on the Web, it actually showed a reduce of
Last month I was contacted by Séverine a team member of Ziki and asked if I would like an invitation to join the Ziki Private Beta, I thought this was a nice offer to make so I accepted her invitation and signed up to Ziki straight away of course there was one condition that I had to accept, that was
Great news for us Beta Testers of Microsoft’s Expression Web Designer, it looks like we will have a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of the Expression Web Designer by the 2nd of May 2006, here’s a post from Devindra S. Chainani’s Blog, a Group Program Manager for the Expression Web Designer: Expression Web Designer will release a confidential CTP1 for
The guys over at the Microsoft Origami Project Team Blog have now announced the I Love UMPC Contest. Which gives you the chance to win a Samsung Q1 UMPC and Slingbox or an origamiproject.com t-shirt. Your entry will be judged on theme, creativity and originality and it also helps if they’re well-written. You have until midnight PT on the 28th of April 2006 to
Looks like the wordpress.com bunnies are working hard to fix the downtime issues Update! Matt here again. We have everything back online, checked, and verified. However we are going to keep blogs offline for a few more minutes to synchronize the backup machines and prevent this sort of problem from ever happening again. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Downtime