Browse by Tags

Update to Live Search

Sometime over the weekend the home page for Live Search at http://www.live.com has been updated. It is a lot cleaner and loads a lot faster. I have only done a few searches with the new page and don't have any feel for changes to the search results. I like the new clean interface but to be honest...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-12-2008
Microsoft to Give Up Buying Yahoo! --- For Now

I just saw that Microsoft is not going to sweeten the deal for Yahoo! any more than it has and has decided against a hostile takeover . I am not sure what Microsoft would have expected to gain but with all the moves that Yahoo! has made lateley to make sure that it is an unattractive takeover target...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-03-2008
Everyone Loves to Hate Spam

I saw a piece in the RISKS digest at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.13.html#subj4 that says spam (unsolicited e-mail) has hit its 30 year anniversary. I also saw an article this morning off the MSN home page http://tech.msn.com/security/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6679669 talking about spam. With all...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-02-2008
Expression 2 Released

Yesterday Microsoft released version 2 of Expression Studio. You can find a lot more information at http://www.microsoft.com/expression but some of the key new features include Silverlight support Importing Adobe Photoshop files Support for ASP.NET AJAX Convert XAML into WPF user controls New codecs...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-02-2008
Microsoft Live Mesh Tech Preview now Live

Last night Microsoft announced that the technology preview of Live Mesh is available to a limited number of beta testers. Live Mesh is a way for me to sign up all of my devices (mobile and Mac coming soon) and designate libraries (files) on each one to be synchronized to the others. I also get a secure...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008
Flash does HD

I got back from vacation and got a few prompts this morning to update software installed on my machine. This one for Flash player caught my eye since the biggest sale point of Microsoft's Silverlight over Adobe's Flash has been that Silverlight can play HD videos. Now it looks like Adobe has...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-21-2008
PayPal to Reject "Unsafe" Browsers

I saw an article on the BBC News technology web site that said PayPal would start warning users who have older, less secure browsers and eventually would block them from accessing their site. My first reaction when I read that there are users using IE 3 and 4 to access PayPal was "you gotta be kidding...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008
If You Know That Why Didn't You Tell Me Sooner?

I heard the other day that the difference between ranting and constructive criticsm is the offering of a solution so let me rant first and then I will offer a possible solution. So first the problem. I sent out an e-mail with a Microsoft Project 2007 .mpp file attached. I heard back from one of the people...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-12-2008
NCAA and OOXML Part 2

This is a followup to my post last week. I just checked and I moved up in the NCAA rankings. I guessed half of the teams in the final 4 correctly. Next week I guess I will finally find out if I was lucky or one of the teams I didn't pick wins. On the OOXML front things are looking up as well. According...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-31-2008
NCAA and OOXML

While you are watching the NCAA basketball tournament and wondering if Davidson is going to win again or end their Cinderella story there is another "contest" going on. Actually it is a vote and not maybe not as dramatic as the NCAA tournament but possibly more important. I can tell you that...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-28-2008

Page 1 of 3 (27 items) 1 2 3 Next >