Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 20, 2009
The question I have been asking myself is “where are the software companies, whose cracked software can be found on the p2p networks?”. Software companies figure out long ago, that they can fight these phenomenon. Slowly, they had changed, now big companies offer basic free versions of their products, understanding that $$$ is “Business to [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 15, 2009
If your touchpad or mouse stop working after windows update of IdeaCom Technology Inc. – Input – IdeaCom HID Touch Screen (PS/2) update, then your not alone. I have Vista Business 64 bits and I have seen reports on the net that the problem occurred to XP and 32 bits versions. My hardware is a [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 13, 2009
Yesterday, I was looking for some information regarding the “Shrink Volume” Windows Vista utility, and found an article in Lifehacker on dual boot Vista and Windows 7. There in the Opinions section, is a post titled “In 2009, Microsoft Still Underestimates the Web”. The post is a constructive criticism, on Microsoft failure in distributing the [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: December 25, 2008
We will not have history lesson or fact listing of these three big companies, Wikipedia can serve this purpose. However, I’m here to point something out: Microsoft did it to IBM and Google is doing it (or did it) to Microsoft. Therefore somebody will do it to Google, yes it might be hard to imagine, [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: December 14, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I receive an email from Microsoft asking me to “help” them fight junk mail. After being in the program for three weeks, I got to the conclusion that this whole program is junk . Junk E-mail Protection Team is a cheap attempt to “crowd source” spam detection. They don’t have [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: September 17, 2008
Chrome “leaked”, the early adopters download Chrome to check it out, the world gasped in amassment, apocalyptic blog posts were written regarding the dominance of Google and the threat to Microsoft and suddenly everything went back to normal (see graph 1), turning our attention to our daily lives and waiting for the next big thing).
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Posted by: Geries Handal on: April 16, 2008
Called the Microhoo merger, is the name given to Microsoft hostile takeover [intentions] of Yahoo. This is old new right? Well apparently it has reached very complex levels (well not that complex just like WTF levels), but you get the picture. If you don’t get the picture here is one created by News.com:
Source News.com (click [...]
