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Wired News: Beware those insidious Vcards

AnotherOutlook security holehas been discovered. Those annoying Vcards (you know, the .vcf attachments no one looks at) can be used to crash or remotely control your computer.

Posted on 24th February 2001 Details

Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS01-012)

Microsoft has released apatchfor the Vcard exploit in outlook.

Posted on 25th February 2001 Details

Microsoft Clippy

Microsoft has a sense of humour. Find out all there is to know about thedemise of that annoying paperclipfrom Office.

Posted on 16th April 2001 Details

Microsoft: Prizes for Rat Finks

Job opportunity of the year: you too canbe a snitch for Microsoft.

Posted on 30th April 2001 Details

Cnet: Mac OS X versus Windows 2000 in the heavyweight round

Ladies and Gentlemen! In the right corner: MacOS X, in the left corner: Windows 2000.Fight!

Posted on 10th June 2001 Details

Linux Today: Microsoft SDK license disallows the use of 'viral software'

Microsoft really has it in for the open source movement. Betterforget about using their development tools.

Posted on 22nd June 2001 Details

SiliconValley.com: Microsoft's desktop `concession' taken from same old bag of tricks

Microsoft is stillup to it’s old tricks.

Posted on 12th July 2001 Details

G4PC: Make A PC Out Of A G4 Case

Can it get geekier than this? Make aPC out of a Mac case, or make aMac out of a PC case.(via MrBarrett)

Posted on 10th August 2001 Details

Security Focus: Code Red II spreading

My gateway is getting hit by thecode red 2 wormapproximatively every 5 minutes for the moment. It’s unbelievable, there are shitloads of people on the same cable network as me who’re infected. I can’t even reach most of them to let them know their computers have been compromised.

Posted on 13th August 2001 Details

LA Times: Windows, Windows Everywhere

Ooh! Anemail from the future, and it looks like it’s Windows, Windows Everywhere… Now, excuse me while I go and flagellate myself in public.

Posted on 26th August 2001 Details

Ballmerfunk Music Video (5.8MB quicktime)

Steve Ballmer’sgot the funk!

Posted on 2nd September 2001 Details

Microsoft Technet: Information on the 'Nimda' Worm

Microsoft has releasedinfo and patchesfor protecting yourself against the already infamous Nimda worm. Windows users, I’d go there right now if I were you.

Posted on 19th September 2001 Details

Cnet: Microsoft to hackers: Don't publish code

Microsoft to hackers and security experts: "please don’t tell people about holes in our products". Why, of course!

Posted on 18th October 2001 Details

HardOCP - xbox screen grab

So, will this be referred to as thegreen screen of death?

Posted on 17th November 2001 Details

Newsbytes: Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft - Expert

A suspected member of Al Qaeda is claiming that Islamic militants/hackersinfiltrated Microsoft and sabotaged Windows XP. All this rumour mongering is just getting ridiculous. In any case, who needs to sabotage Windows? Microsoft does a pretty good job on its own.

Posted on 17th December 2001 Details

Mactopia: Download: Internet Explorer 5.1 Macintosh Edition

Internet Explorer 5.1for Mac OS Classic is out.

Posted on 21st December 2001 Details

ZDnet: .Net vote rigging illustrates importance of Web services

The lengths Microsoft will go to to push their products are unbelievable, they’revote-riggingnow. How desperate can you get?

Posted on 9th January 2002 Details

F-Secure: Donut .NET virus

It’s a time for firsts… after thefirst Flash virusdiscovered recently, meetthe first Microsoft .NET Virus.

Posted on 10th January 2002 Details

Newsforge: We can put an end to Word attachments

Richard Stallman says we canput an end to Word attachments. Go for it, I say.(via camworld)

Posted on 12th January 2002 Details

Washington Post: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

AOL wants to take on Microsoft in more than just the browser arena, they’re innegotiations to buy Red Hat, makers of one of the top Linux distributions.

Posted on 19th January 2002 Details

Wired: PCs Are Incorrect on TV

Apple user = Goodie, Windows user = Baddie, at leastin film and television.

Posted on 19th February 2002 Details

Newsforge: Microsoft's next scandal - More questions about secret DoJ negotiations

Is the microsoft antitrust caseabout to blow up?

Posted on 23rd February 2002 Details

Business Week: An Anti-Mac Corporate Conspiracy?

This is something I’ve often wondered about. Macs need much less tech support and maintenance than Wintel boxes, are IT managers keeping their companies in the windows world in order toinsure job security? The truth is probably somewhere in between.

Posted on 15th March 2002 Details

Infoworld: Codeweavers runs Office without Windows

Run Microsoft Office on your PCwithout Windows.

Posted on 31st March 2002 Details

news.com: High-profile anti-Unix site runs Unix

Caught with their pants down: a web site sponsored by Microsoft and Unisys intended to steer companies away from Unixruns on FreeBSD.

Posted on 1st April 2002 Details

Yahoo News: Judge Allows Windows Demo, Blow to Microsoft

Microsoft says Internet Explorer can’t be removed from Windows. Someone is about toprove the oppositeto the judges.

Posted on 8th May 2002 Details

Newsforge: Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick

Did you know Microsoft wasconvicted of software piracylast year by a French court?

Posted on 10th May 2002 Details

Cloudmark Spamnet

Outlook for Windows users, fight spam collaboratively withCloudmark Spamnet.

Posted on 9th August 2002 Details

ZDnet: Mitch Kapor: Good luck fighting Microsoft

Mitch Kapor’sannouncementof an open-source multi-platform challenger to Outlook created quite a storm on the net. Charles Cooper of ZDnet thinks his venture is fated to go down in the annals asan act of knight-errantry. Time will tell. I’m certainly curious to see what this PIM will look like.

Posted on 28th October 2002 Details

LinuxGuru: WINE: A new place for KLEZ to play

Windows worms could bepropagated by Linux boxesin very particular circumstances.

Posted on 28th October 2002 Details

Guardian: PowerPoint of view

Is Powerpoint the most loathsome, vicious and immoralpiece of software ever produced? Probably… that and Microsoft Project. Both responsible for decreasing corporate innovation and productivity all over the globe.

Posted on 8th February 2003 Details

Opera releases "Bork" edition

After the Opera browser being blocked from MSN, Opera software has reacted by releasing theBork versionof their browser, specifically designed for our friends at Microsoft.

Posted on 14th February 2003 Details

Yahoo News: Microsoft: ILoo No Hoax After All

So, first the Microsoft net-connected toilet press release makes the rounds, then they announce its a hoax. Now they sayit was realbut has been canned (ahem). Do we really care?

Posted on 14th May 2003 Details

Zeldman: R.I.P.

Well, Internet Explorer for Mac is dead and it looks like Windows users will be stuck with IE6 for a while… not much to look forward to. Zeldman has writtena good analysison the situation.

Posted on 15th June 2003 Details

currybetdotnet: MSN will protect your children

An obviouscounterpointto the great PR stunt pulled by MSN recently (all the national press has published it here… scary.) Of course, once everyone is running messenger, making them upgrade to the new version of windows in order to keep chatting might just have crossed their minds.

Posted on 25th September 2003 Details

The New Yorker: The End Matter

Dwelling on the nightmares ofwriting with Microsoft Word.

Posted on 1st October 2003 Details

OJR: Microsoft Move Likely to Be Death Knell to Pop-Up Advertising Format

Looks like popups are well and truly on their way out. The next version of Internet Explorer will featurea popup blocker.

Posted on 15th December 2003 Details

CNN: Does PowerPoint make us stupid?

David Byrneturns PowerPoint into art, moving away from the vision of Edward Tufte.

Posted on 31st December 2003 Details

Neowin: Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks

Pssst! Wanna buy somesource code?

Posted on 13th February 2004 Details

User Friendly: Free Billy

That “liberated” source code meme isspreading.

Posted on 15th February 2004 Details

linux-elitists: Microsoft goes after Linux kernel downloaders?

More on the Windows leak; Microsoft gets heavy with people offering source on file sharing networks,Linux included.

Posted on 18th February 2004 Details

Bugtraq: Exploit based on leaked code released.

The firstsecurity exploitbased on the leaked Windows source-code has been discovered. It only affects IE5 users but what’s next?

Posted on 18th February 2004 Details

msgoogle

If Microsoftbought Google...

Posted on 3rd March 2004 Details

Macworld UK: Engineers pulled off Gates' Longhorn

Amusing title choice for anarticle at Macworld:

Posted on 2nd April 2004 Details

sndrec3213

Making music with Windows’interface sounds.

Posted on 6th April 2004 Details

Daring Fireball: For Whatever Reasons

I’ve been havingthis exact conversationseveral times a week. The signs are certainly there, people are getting restless and uneasy with all the security failings of Windows.It will take more to provoke mass migration to another platform though, neophobia and apathy combined are doing a great job.The first step isthe browser.

Posted on 28th September 2004 Details

Google desktop search

In case you somehow missed the noise:Google for the desktop(windows only)

Posted on 14th October 2004 Details

Monkey Methods: Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983

Bill Gates probably cringes significantly when he remembersthis photo spreadwhere he nonchalantly flips his floppies at the camera for a 1983 edition of Teen Beat magazine.

Posted on 16th January 2005 Details

Yahoo: Norway Proposes New Digital Copyright Law

Denmark seems to be freedom black spot of the day. What with the local government proposing a new law that would make itillegal for Norwegians to rip their own CDs into MP3 format for personal use(would that make Apple or Creative Labs accessory to these outlawed acts?) and Bill Gates attempting toblackmail said governmentinto supporting the European directive on software patents.

Posted on 15th February 2005 Details

Microsoft UK training videos featuring Ricky Gerva...

Microsoft UK training videos featuring Ricky Gervais as his “The Office” character, David Brent: part 1 and part 2.

Linked on 18th August 2006 Details

Diegem, start your photocopiers!

I thought it was about time I posted something about this as I receive emails every day on the subject, including strange offers of revenge. Yes, I am aware one of my designs has been ripped off. For those who haven’t seen it yet, take a look at the previous version of this site, then take a look at this site for a Microsoft event featuring his royal Gatesness himself. (hat tip to Eric for spotting it first)

Posted on 1st October 2006 Details

The saga continues

Looks like I’ve been ripped off by proxy this time.

Posted on 20th November 2006 Details

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