I’ve been attempting to troubleshoot some issues with sending Excel files back and forth between my Mac at home and a professor who uses a Mac at home and a Windows PC at school. Even though we’re both using current versions of Excel, and though the files opened fine on her Mac, she was having consistent problems on the Windows machine.
Categories: Microsoft,Technology
Tagged: bug, excel, mac, Microsoft, troubleshooting, windows
Microsoft’s partnership with Digital River for electronic distribution of Windows 7 is a customer service nightmare. For the record: as of November 6th, 2009, Digital River’s customer service phone number is (952) 253-1234.
Categories: Internet,Life,Microsoft,Technology
Tagged: customer service, digital river, Microsoft, windows 7
With the news of another weblogger losing his job because of posts on his weblog the issues of what webloggers can and cannot expect to be able to post on their weblogs has started bubbling ‘round the blogosphere again. Now there’s a proposed Bloggers’ Bill of Rights — but how useful is it? And which companies should really be singled out?
Categories: 15Minutes,Microsoft,Weblogs
Tagged: 15 minutes of fame, bill of rights, ellen simonetti, employment, Microsoft, privacy, publishing, rights, Weblogs
Musings on Microsoft, XBoxes, and PowerPC Processors.
Categories: 15Minutes,Apple,Games,Microsoft
Tagged: 15 minutes of fame, Apple, g5, Games, Microsoft, powermac, software, via authenticgeek, virtual pc, xbox
Last Friday, the Seattle P-I ran a nice story on the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft, which included a photo of some of the Mac BU staffers seated in front of racks of Mac computers.
Categories: 15Minutes,Microsoft
Tagged: 15 minutes of fame, Apple, mac bu, macintosh, macintosh business unit, Microsoft, seattle pi
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