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Microsoft Office vs Open Office

2008-06-05 – 12:44 am

Two pertinent questions have been raised by Paul Murphy in ZdNet seeking real-life experience with the comparative features of both the Office suites, the ubiquitous proprietary Office of Microsoft and the Opensource Open Office.
The comments recorded by the users make a highly educative and illuminating treatise on the individual aspects of both the programs and [...]

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Sharp and clear font on your screen

2008-05-02 – 3:41 am

Do you use an LCD monitor and the text looks pixelated and hazy?
You have an in-built help in Windows called “ClearType” which makes the fonts on LCD monitors sharper and clearer. In fact they will become razor-sharp and clearer than ever before on notebooks. No harm in trying it on CRT monitors, but there is [...]

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Interesting times with Microsoft!

2008-03-02 – 3:29 am

I wanted to try the bonanza of 5 Gigs of online storage offered by Windows Live. Armed with my old Hotmail ID, I fancied myself a winner. But alas, it was not to be!
Though I remembered the id, I forgot its companion, the password. What with having completely forgotten Hotmail after leaving it in disuse [...]

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Negotiation tips for Yahoo!

2008-02-25 – 7:51 am

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Bill Gates’ Last day!

2008-01-18 – 8:07 am

Who said the great Bill doesn’t have a sense of humor! He can take a dig at himself, for a change! Yoohoo, Bill-baiters! You are summarily disarmed!
Give Bill his due, guys. You can’t beat Bill, so long he is in the midst of bill$!
YouTube - Watch - Bill Gates in CES

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Britain shuns Vista

2008-01-13 – 5:00 am

According to an InfoWorld report, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has instructed that British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft’s Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite. It also supported use of the international standard ODF (Open Document Format) for storing files, specifically avoiding Microsoft’s OOXML (Office Open XML) document format [...]

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Microsoft is the darling of wisecrackers!

2007-12-24 – 6:32 am

The other name for Windows, Microsoft’s ubiquitous operating system is “crash”! It’ll crash at the slightest suggestion and at the most inopportune times. The internet and print media have dealt with the malaise of crashing ad nauseam.
Here is a whiz who has divined the reason for the crashy-crash. He avers it is after all, you [...]

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