Microsoft

What would Mr Dewey say about her?

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There is a new search tool on The Internets. It might even have been made with w in mind. I’ll let Professor Myers describe it for you:

Microsoft has added everything to a search engine that you’ve missed in Google: long load times, half of the screen space dedicated to flash animation and another quarter just empty charcoal grey, results that are shown 3 at a time and displayed in a light gray font on a distracting pale graphic, and most importantly, the most annoying librarian in the universe, Ms. Dewey, who seems to be there to nag you to type faster and mock you if she doesn’t understand your request.

Yes, she will mock you:

Are you just letting your dog type now?

It wasn’t hard to get her to say:

It’s easy to make jokes about the president. So easy, I’m going to pass on it.

Maybe if they gave her a few more waiting for input routines one wouldn’t get totally annoyed by the time you are able to read the 3 search responses and figure out how to scroll for more that you can’t read.
If you are not in a hurry for your answers or turn out to be more interested in hers….well, go try it out.

NB: Ms. Dewey will show you her hands tied behind her back, admits to being coded overseas and does give a page of the Kama Sutra an intrigued bit of study. All of which means that I’ve wasted way too much time at this site!

The Vista

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As we were just talking about correct usage we should also note that Microsoft is officially releasing The Vista and other stuff this week:

At an invitation-only affair in New York this week, CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft’s market-leading e-mail platform.

The title of the above article is 100 Things You Must Know About Microsoft’s Most Important Product Launch Ever.

User Friendly saves you the work of reading all the details:

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More in the series here and here

Do You Care….

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…that IE 7 will not run on Windows 2000 machines?

Microsoft has confirmed that it won’t release a version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 7 for Windows 2000, putting an end to speculation — some of it fueled by Microsoft — that the Redmond, Wash.-based developer would offer a more secure, revamped browser to users of that the aging-but-still-used operating system.

Well, no, I don’t care! Firefox runs just fine on the one W2000 machine we still have as well as on the XP SP2 machines we have.

Microsoft Malware

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Perhaps showing their true colors Microsoft makes it pretty clear that they are no better and perhaps worse than the proverbial fox guarding the hen house:

Microsoft should be ashamed of itself for trying to turn its own security flaw to its commercial gain. There’s no reason to believe that customers installing a mandatory security fix also want to change their browser home page to an MSN portal, and there’s even less excuse for trying to spring a change on the unwary.
Interestingly, the test version of Microsoft’s new AntiSpyware program does something similar.

Of course, if you are not using IE as your browser you did not notice this happening to you. Hint, hint.
And, why shouldn’t Microsoft owe, say, $5 compensation to everyone who had to spend time reconfiguring their systems as a result of this theft.