Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Q&A: Bill Gates Spills About What’s Next for Microsoft

This is part 1 of an interview between Time magazine and Bill Gates: TIME: How do you think about innovation? What are your cues? Is there a way you look at the world and derive a vision of the future? People wonder how Bill Gates comes up with the next big idea. Gates:There are tons of great people here at Microsoft

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Memo Outlines Microsoft’s Plans

I couldn’t agree more with this Article, Microsoft’s decision to go Windows Live was a though decision it had to take, as with any re-branding decision there’s always going to be a high risk factor of failure and even though there has been and still is quite a lot of confusion over the name Windows Live because so many people

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Competition to develop a Shop/Cash Mod for Invision Power Board v2.1.5

About half an hour ago or so I posted the following post on the Invisionize Forum’s to see if I can finaly get the Mod I need for MS Discussion, some people might thing I shouldent do what I’m doing right now, but let me tell you this I’m doing this for the whole community of Invision and my Microsoft Discussion forums for

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MSN Spaces Social Networking trial goes live in Australia

MSN Spaces Australia was tonight updated to include a new Social Networking trial which enables customers to communicate and connect in a more meaningful way with their friends and their friends of friends, read more below: This week I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out in Sydney spending time with customers, partners, a bunch of cool bloggers as well as the folks from

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Writely who has been acquired by Google actually uses ASP .NET

I must say I find this kind of funny. 🙂 Congrats to the team who made Writely for getting acquired by Google. They built it in .NET. It used to be uncool to startup a company with Microsoft technologies, but I’ve seen more and more .NET stuff being done in the Valley. Who’s next? Via: Robert Scoble

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Installed Invision Community Blog on MS Discussion

A couple of hours ago I installed Invision Community Blog on my Microsoft Discussion Forums (MS Discussion), I’m hoping that by doing this we can attract even more visitors to the site especially with all the features the blog system has to offer: Invision Community Blog is a plugin for Invision Power Board. It uses the same skin, member, language,

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Windoes Live Safety Center Beta has come to an end.

The Windoes Live Safety Center Beta has now come to an end, which means the Beta Tag should be removed very soon. The Windows Live Safety Center team would like to thank all of you for being part of this beta. You have done an amazing job in identifying bugs and making suggestions for improvements. Some of the stuff we

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The New Microsoft Office 2007 User Interface Overview

New screenshots of the new Office 2007 UI (User Interface) have now been postsed on Microsoft’s Site, look’s pretty cool if you ask me! The New Microsoft Office User Interface Overview Published: September 13, 2005 | Updated: March 9, 2006 When planning the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, formerly code-named Office “12”, we took on the challenge of making