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Posted by: vinitneo on: February 9, 2009

In: Internet| Microsoft
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One of What I Think reader Pavithra wanted to know how to send an email with an expiry date, so I did bit of a research and here it is -
There exists no simple way to send email with expiry date except in Microsoft Office Outlook where you can do this with the custom header [...]

Tags: email, Microsoft

IE 8 is doing rather well

Posted by: vinitneo on: February 6, 2009

In: Internet| Microsoft| Web Browser| google| softwares
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Internet Explorer 8 release candidate 1 which was released last week is getting a lots attention and might pose competition to Google Chrome, the browser which is supposed to get IE users to switch to Chrome.
Both the browsers now have 1% market share and considering IE 8 was released last week it do doing [...]

Tags: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft, Windows 7

Too many browsers

Posted by: vinitneo on: January 29, 2009

In: Microsoft| Web Browser| softwares
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We’ve all heard the anti-trust tirades before, but the EU just doesn’t want to let up on Microsoft. They’re not happy with claims that OEMs are "free to include other web browsers." Nope. That just won’t cut it. The answer: more bloat for the end user! Yes, the European Commission is [...]

Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft

Access denied : File in use

Posted by: vinitneo on: January 17, 2009

In: Microsoft| softwares
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You want to delete a file or a folder and you are greeted by the words Access Denied, you don’t even know why access is denied and which program is using the file and deleting such file is really a headache.
Not anymore Windows 7 tells you which program is using the file so that you [...]

Tags: Microsoft, operating system, Windows 7

Unlimited Downloads of Windows 7 Beta

Posted by: vinitneo on: January 13, 2009

In: Microsoft| softwares
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Microsoft Corp. has reset the number of downloads to its Windows 7 Beta from 2.5 million to unlimited to accommodate more PC users who want to try the new operating system.
The software giant made the move Saturday in response to an overwhelming demand for the trial version of Windows 7 that overwhelmed its servers. [...]

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Windows XP Expiry Date Extended AGAIN

Posted by: vinitneo on: December 23, 2008

In: Microsoft| softwares
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I have a feeling that XP would be a operating system that just won’t die. Microsoft has stopped offering retail copies of the operating system and were intending to tell computer makers to stop preloading the software on new notebook and desktop systems earlier this year. But Microsoft had been delaying this decision [...]

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP