Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft seeks open antitrust hearing, EU says no.

Microsoft has now asked the European Commission to open up to the public a hearing that could lead to a large fine for Microsoft, but the European Commission has said that procedural regulations require it be closed, which in my opinion isn’t good at all! BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT – news) asked the European Commission to open to the

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Blog upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2

Just thought I would let you all know that I’ve now upgraded my Blog to WordPress 2.0.2 after a security issue was found: An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.

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Microsoft 10 is now live on the air

Microsoft’s evangelism group has now launched a new community web site called “10” My team and I have been working night and day for some time to launch an all new community called 10. Our dream is to create a place for those people who want to use technology to change the world. Every weekday at 10:00 am (PST) we’ll

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What’s Next for Bill Gates?

This is part 2 of an interview between Time magazine and Bill Gates, in which the Microsoft chief talks about the battle against Google, Origami and other new products from the Microsoft machine. TIME:What other innovations are coming from your research group? Gates: Videoconferencing is another good example. There’s more of it going on today than in the past. But it’s

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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