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southpark asked:
I want to delete Microsoft Outlook 2007. I tried using it, but I just do not like it. I want to go back to using my school’s webmail service. I can access that from anywhere. How do I go about getting rid of Microsoft Outlook 2007 and thus restoring emails to my school account?
I want to delete Microsoft Outlook 2007. I tried using it, but I just do not like it. I want to go back to using my school’s webmail service. I can access that from anywhere. How do I go about getting rid of Microsoft Outlook 2007 and thus restoring emails to my school account?
Angela Rogers asked:
Have you ever wondered why there are vastly increasing number of Web designers and developers who don’t like using Internet Explorer?
Maybe you have wondered what’s the big fuss about internet explorer and why so many people are negative towards its use?
After all; it loads pretty fast, looks okay and does the job.
I once had same opinion!
As a web developer it is part my job to ensure websites work in all major browsers. And here lies the problem. If you look at Internet Explorer, 6th version in particular, from the user point of view there is nothing wrong with it. However, IE6 is the reason why developers worldwide pull out their hair, swear at screens and in general doom IE.
When designers code a website, ideally it needs to comply with international coding rules. Websites can be designed using different languages but in general what your browser displays is a HTML code (an XHTML if you want to be up with latest standards).
Internet explorer 6, being an old browser, is rendering pages differently and does not keep up with new standards (XHTML and CSS) and is displaying pages differently, with errors, objects are shifted to wrong places etc……
And this is the part where developer starts swearing at Microsoft. Simply because they code their website according to standards, having it tested in all OTHER major browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera, Flock or even Conqueror on some distros of linux but it simply does not work in IE6.
This is quite frustrating because the developer has done everything as it should be, after all it works perfectly in other browsers so why does not work in IE6?
And tweaking and hacking of CSS coding starts in an attempt to get the site working on IE6, which still a majority of users have installed by default (in our opinion this should be down to choice and not to monopoly position).
Designers then have to spend additional hours making those tweaks work. Now imagine that your company has 5 developers and each one has to spend an extra 2 hours tweaking code that is perfectly valid! That’s 10 hours of company time wasted simply down to problems with IE6 that should not occur in the first place.
This time should be billed and sent to Microsoft!
Now the positive part! Microsoft seem to realise this and now having released IE7 for a while, it is step toward better future. IE7 renders pages much better, with some quirks but Microsoft is promising IE8 soon with all range of features but also full compliance with standards
Empire Elements recommends following browsers:
Mozila Firefox
Very "cool" browser. Plenty of customization features, Add-ons and themes. Solid performance and compliance with standards. Security standard, recognises phishing sites and blocks popups. Completely FREE and our first choice!
Flock
so called the Social Web Browser. Full integration with socializing websites, youTube, Facebook, Flickr video streaming sites and much, much more.
Safari
something new for Windows users that MAC users have had for a whilen now. Safari is incredibly fast!
Opera
Opera has email client in-built, fast loading and plenty of widgets. Check out the mobile phone version!
IE7
Does deserver our 5th place because if we are forced to have Internet explorer on our computers, lets have the IE7!
Have you ever wondered why there are vastly increasing number of Web designers and developers who don’t like using Internet Explorer?
Maybe you have wondered what’s the big fuss about internet explorer and why so many people are negative towards its use?
After all; it loads pretty fast, looks okay and does the job.
I once had same opinion!
As a web developer it is part my job to ensure websites work in all major browsers. And here lies the problem. If you look at Internet Explorer, 6th version in particular, from the user point of view there is nothing wrong with it. However, IE6 is the reason why developers worldwide pull out their hair, swear at screens and in general doom IE.
When designers code a website, ideally it needs to comply with international coding rules. Websites can be designed using different languages but in general what your browser displays is a HTML code (an XHTML if you want to be up with latest standards).
Internet explorer 6, being an old browser, is rendering pages differently and does not keep up with new standards (XHTML and CSS) and is displaying pages differently, with errors, objects are shifted to wrong places etc……
And this is the part where developer starts swearing at Microsoft. Simply because they code their website according to standards, having it tested in all OTHER major browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera, Flock or even Conqueror on some distros of linux but it simply does not work in IE6.
This is quite frustrating because the developer has done everything as it should be, after all it works perfectly in other browsers so why does not work in IE6?
And tweaking and hacking of CSS coding starts in an attempt to get the site working on IE6, which still a majority of users have installed by default (in our opinion this should be down to choice and not to monopoly position).
Designers then have to spend additional hours making those tweaks work. Now imagine that your company has 5 developers and each one has to spend an extra 2 hours tweaking code that is perfectly valid! That’s 10 hours of company time wasted simply down to problems with IE6 that should not occur in the first place.
This time should be billed and sent to Microsoft!
Now the positive part! Microsoft seem to realise this and now having released IE7 for a while, it is step toward better future. IE7 renders pages much better, with some quirks but Microsoft is promising IE8 soon with all range of features but also full compliance with standards
Empire Elements recommends following browsers:
Mozila Firefox
Very "cool" browser. Plenty of customization features, Add-ons and themes. Solid performance and compliance with standards. Security standard, recognises phishing sites and blocks popups. Completely FREE and our first choice!
Flock
so called the Social Web Browser. Full integration with socializing websites, youTube, Facebook, Flickr video streaming sites and much, much more.
Safari
something new for Windows users that MAC users have had for a whilen now. Safari is incredibly fast!
Opera
Opera has email client in-built, fast loading and plenty of widgets. Check out the mobile phone version!
IE7
Does deserver our 5th place because if we are forced to have Internet explorer on our computers, lets have the IE7!
Max J. Pucher asked:
We live in a world of gigantomaniacs. We now have huge governments, huge corporations, huge projects and therefore huge failures. If you believe that it is the bad-boy capitalists who are the cause then you believe the lies of socialist governments. Yes, it is the corporations who are asking for free markets, but when a market consists of a few huge players and many tiny ones it is anything else but free. The individuals involved in it are not free at all. Many rules that the small business owners are suffering from were made for large corporations who always find a way around them with the amount of clout and money they can spend.
The vision of freedom should apply to people and individual business owners to at maximum medium size businesses. Large corporations and stock market speculators must not necessarily have freedom to the extent that they have it. The oil price bubble we have right now is caused by too much freedom for speculative traders. The volumes traded are several thousand times the amount of oil needed. With every trade performed the price goes up for the consumer. I do not have a solution and I am not asking for regulation, but for guiding principles. I am against governments stepping in and taking over, but I am for simple and sensible rules of the game we call social and business life. Keeping businesses in sensible sizes maybe one way to achieve that. I am clearly a heretic in regards to capitalist concepts here.
What ever happened to ’small is beautiful?’ We allow these huge governments and businesses to dominate our lives and take away our freedom. A business beyond a certain size is a monopoly by default. Microsoft is a good example. Not people but businesses would need to be taxed progressively by the amount of revenue or growth in stock market value. It is not true that only large governments and large corporations can do big things. Virtually any project today is performed by a conglomerate of companies and when you take the outsourcing providers and supply chain into it, I see no need for businesses larger than a few thousand people.
Likewise, government projects should be local and not national. Central government projects must be service charged buy-in only and not mandatory. Particularly with the age of the Internet I see not problem for many small entities to cooperate at a distance. But the Internet has become the perfect means for governments to control and spy on people. Something that we need to put a stop to a soon as we can. If governmental policies would not interfere with how other people want to live, then we would not have to be afraid of Islamic terrorists and we would not have to give up our freedom so that we can be protected from them. This is one of the most incredible lies of today. First governments mess up foreign politics and then they meddle with out privacy to ‘protect us’ from the mess they created.
That we have more and more government regulation and control over our lives is because governments have seriously failed us. The exaggerations about the dangers of nuclear power created by the likes of Greenpeace is responsible for our current dependency on oil, which is responsible for our political and military meddling in the Middle East, which is responsible for our terrorist fears and the related government sanctioned spying on its citizens. The illusions of global markets is responsible for our drop in a European workforce. The lies of governments claiming being able to simply pay for the retirement of major percentage of older citizens are responsible for the incredible taxation and social security. Why should young people now be punished for the lies of former politicians and the illusion and ignorance od the people who voted for them. I do not think it is fair.
As soon as a citizen gets money from the government he must not be allowed to vote, for example government employees, the unemployed or people in retirement because they have a conflict of interest. There are now more retirees in most European countries than there are workers, so what kind of government will be voted into power?
So here we are in a mess of visions, illusions and lies and I wonder how we will make through it. We are given so much conflicting and incorrect information that no one can no longer make sense of it. I totally agree that we should vote against a EU contract that no one - including politicians - understands in terms of its true consequences. All they do is vote themselves into more power with more of the citizens money to spend. And the way they do it by discussing visions, allowing illusions … but they create them with lies. The visions are now gone and illusions and lies is all we are left with.
In the words of Nicholas Taleb in his book ‘The Black Swan’ we the modern Western people in our illusionary democracies are like a turkey 8 weeks before Thanksgiving. We start to believe that humans (politicians) are our benefactors because they start to feed us a lot each day. We believe this up to the day the guy with the big knife comes …
This was originally published on my blog: ‘On Writing.’
We live in a world of gigantomaniacs. We now have huge governments, huge corporations, huge projects and therefore huge failures. If you believe that it is the bad-boy capitalists who are the cause then you believe the lies of socialist governments. Yes, it is the corporations who are asking for free markets, but when a market consists of a few huge players and many tiny ones it is anything else but free. The individuals involved in it are not free at all. Many rules that the small business owners are suffering from were made for large corporations who always find a way around them with the amount of clout and money they can spend.
The vision of freedom should apply to people and individual business owners to at maximum medium size businesses. Large corporations and stock market speculators must not necessarily have freedom to the extent that they have it. The oil price bubble we have right now is caused by too much freedom for speculative traders. The volumes traded are several thousand times the amount of oil needed. With every trade performed the price goes up for the consumer. I do not have a solution and I am not asking for regulation, but for guiding principles. I am against governments stepping in and taking over, but I am for simple and sensible rules of the game we call social and business life. Keeping businesses in sensible sizes maybe one way to achieve that. I am clearly a heretic in regards to capitalist concepts here.
What ever happened to ’small is beautiful?’ We allow these huge governments and businesses to dominate our lives and take away our freedom. A business beyond a certain size is a monopoly by default. Microsoft is a good example. Not people but businesses would need to be taxed progressively by the amount of revenue or growth in stock market value. It is not true that only large governments and large corporations can do big things. Virtually any project today is performed by a conglomerate of companies and when you take the outsourcing providers and supply chain into it, I see no need for businesses larger than a few thousand people.
Likewise, government projects should be local and not national. Central government projects must be service charged buy-in only and not mandatory. Particularly with the age of the Internet I see not problem for many small entities to cooperate at a distance. But the Internet has become the perfect means for governments to control and spy on people. Something that we need to put a stop to a soon as we can. If governmental policies would not interfere with how other people want to live, then we would not have to be afraid of Islamic terrorists and we would not have to give up our freedom so that we can be protected from them. This is one of the most incredible lies of today. First governments mess up foreign politics and then they meddle with out privacy to ‘protect us’ from the mess they created.
That we have more and more government regulation and control over our lives is because governments have seriously failed us. The exaggerations about the dangers of nuclear power created by the likes of Greenpeace is responsible for our current dependency on oil, which is responsible for our political and military meddling in the Middle East, which is responsible for our terrorist fears and the related government sanctioned spying on its citizens. The illusions of global markets is responsible for our drop in a European workforce. The lies of governments claiming being able to simply pay for the retirement of major percentage of older citizens are responsible for the incredible taxation and social security. Why should young people now be punished for the lies of former politicians and the illusion and ignorance od the people who voted for them. I do not think it is fair.
As soon as a citizen gets money from the government he must not be allowed to vote, for example government employees, the unemployed or people in retirement because they have a conflict of interest. There are now more retirees in most European countries than there are workers, so what kind of government will be voted into power?
So here we are in a mess of visions, illusions and lies and I wonder how we will make through it. We are given so much conflicting and incorrect information that no one can no longer make sense of it. I totally agree that we should vote against a EU contract that no one - including politicians - understands in terms of its true consequences. All they do is vote themselves into more power with more of the citizens money to spend. And the way they do it by discussing visions, allowing illusions … but they create them with lies. The visions are now gone and illusions and lies is all we are left with.
In the words of Nicholas Taleb in his book ‘The Black Swan’ we the modern Western people in our illusionary democracies are like a turkey 8 weeks before Thanksgiving. We start to believe that humans (politicians) are our benefactors because they start to feed us a lot each day. We believe this up to the day the guy with the big knife comes …
This was originally published on my blog: ‘On Writing.’
PKP IYER asked:
Web Browsers have come a long way from the days of the first internet web browser, Mosaic and the like. The monopoly of the Microsoft-authored Internet Explorer has been decisively broken and terminated possibly, forever. Web browsers today have progressed from being a mere internet-exploring tool to being a multi-purpose, multi-pronged application that brings several advantages to the web visitor. A web browser is defined as a software application, a typical HTTP client that helps the internet visitor to interpret the HTML documents and display the content from web servers or in file systems.Today there are a variety of internet browsers available. The prominent browsers available for personal computers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox Opera Netscape and so on. A browser is the most commonly used kind of user agent. The largest networked collection of linked documents is known as the World Wide Web.
Web browsers communicate with web servers primarily using HTTP (hyper-text transfer protocol) to fetch webpages. HTTP allows web browsers to submit information to web servers as well as fetch web pages from them. The most commonly used HTTP is HTTP/1.1. Web Pages are located by means of a URL (uniform resource locator), which is treated as an address, beginning with http: for HTTP access. Many browsers also support a variety of other URL types and their corresponding protocols, such as ftp: for FTP (file transfer protocol), gopher: for Gopher, and https: for HTTPS (an SSL encrypted version of HTTP).
The generally accepted file format for a web page is usually HTML (hyper-text markup language) and is identified in the HTTP protocol using a MIME content type. Most browsers certainly support other technology formats in addition to HTML, such as the JPEG PNG and GIF image formats, and can be extended to support more through the use of plugins. The combination of HTTP content type and URL protocol specification allows web page designers to embed images, animations, video, sound, and streaming media into a web page, or to make them accessible through the web page.
In the beginning web browsers supported only a very simple version of HTML. The rapid development of web browsers led to the development of HTML into a more complex avatars. Modern web browsers support standards-based HTML and XHTML which should display in the same way across all browsers. Web sites today are designed using WYSIWYG HTML generation programs such as Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. There are continuous development activities in developing standards, specifically with XHTML and CSS (cascading style sheets, used for page layout). Some of the more popular browsers include additional components to support Usenet news, IRC (Internet relay chat), and e-mail. Protocols supported may include NNTP (network news transfer protocol), SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), IMAP (Internet message access protocol), and POP (post office protocol).
Different browsers have uniqueness built in because of the very features that they provide and very functions that they support. Modern browsers and web pages tend to utilize many features and techniques that did not exist in the early days of the web. The following is a list of some of the most notable features:
- HTTP and HTTPS
- HTML, XMLand XHTML
- GIF, PNGJPEG and SVG
- Cascading Style Sheets
- JavaScript
- Digital certificates
- RSS
- Bookmarks
- Caching
- Plugins like Macromedia Flash and Quick Time.
Other features generally include:
- Autocomplete
- Tabbed browsing
- Spatial navigation
- Caret navigation
- Screen reader
- Pop-up Blocker
- Ad filtering
- Phishing
Web Browsers have today established themselves as a most user-friendly and essential technology tool for surfing the internet. Web browsers help the visitors to the ethereal world of the web to view contents from different file formats, interact with other websites, incorporate appropriate technology to view/download/upload multi-media content and streaming multi-media. Web browsers today provide functionalities like blocking of unwanted pop-up advertisements, spywares and phishing attempts. They provide the convenience of tabbed browsing and come with advanced features like auto-fill and password and download managers.
Web browsers of today are not mere messengers between client and server. They are full-fledged programs capable of using fuzzy logic to select most appropriate content and help the web visitor to browse safely and pleasurably.
Web Browsers have come a long way from the days of the first internet web browser, Mosaic and the like. The monopoly of the Microsoft-authored Internet Explorer has been decisively broken and terminated possibly, forever. Web browsers today have progressed from being a mere internet-exploring tool to being a multi-purpose, multi-pronged application that brings several advantages to the web visitor. A web browser is defined as a software application, a typical HTTP client that helps the internet visitor to interpret the HTML documents and display the content from web servers or in file systems.Today there are a variety of internet browsers available. The prominent browsers available for personal computers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox Opera Netscape and so on. A browser is the most commonly used kind of user agent. The largest networked collection of linked documents is known as the World Wide Web.
Web browsers communicate with web servers primarily using HTTP (hyper-text transfer protocol) to fetch webpages. HTTP allows web browsers to submit information to web servers as well as fetch web pages from them. The most commonly used HTTP is HTTP/1.1. Web Pages are located by means of a URL (uniform resource locator), which is treated as an address, beginning with http: for HTTP access. Many browsers also support a variety of other URL types and their corresponding protocols, such as ftp: for FTP (file transfer protocol), gopher: for Gopher, and https: for HTTPS (an SSL encrypted version of HTTP).
The generally accepted file format for a web page is usually HTML (hyper-text markup language) and is identified in the HTTP protocol using a MIME content type. Most browsers certainly support other technology formats in addition to HTML, such as the JPEG PNG and GIF image formats, and can be extended to support more through the use of plugins. The combination of HTTP content type and URL protocol specification allows web page designers to embed images, animations, video, sound, and streaming media into a web page, or to make them accessible through the web page.
In the beginning web browsers supported only a very simple version of HTML. The rapid development of web browsers led to the development of HTML into a more complex avatars. Modern web browsers support standards-based HTML and XHTML which should display in the same way across all browsers. Web sites today are designed using WYSIWYG HTML generation programs such as Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. There are continuous development activities in developing standards, specifically with XHTML and CSS (cascading style sheets, used for page layout). Some of the more popular browsers include additional components to support Usenet news, IRC (Internet relay chat), and e-mail. Protocols supported may include NNTP (network news transfer protocol), SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), IMAP (Internet message access protocol), and POP (post office protocol).
Different browsers have uniqueness built in because of the very features that they provide and very functions that they support. Modern browsers and web pages tend to utilize many features and techniques that did not exist in the early days of the web. The following is a list of some of the most notable features:
- HTTP and HTTPS
- HTML, XMLand XHTML
- GIF, PNGJPEG and SVG
- Cascading Style Sheets
- JavaScript
- Digital certificates
- RSS
- Bookmarks
- Caching
- Plugins like Macromedia Flash and Quick Time.
Other features generally include:
- Autocomplete
- Tabbed browsing
- Spatial navigation
- Caret navigation
- Screen reader
- Pop-up Blocker
- Ad filtering
- Phishing
Web Browsers have today established themselves as a most user-friendly and essential technology tool for surfing the internet. Web browsers help the visitors to the ethereal world of the web to view contents from different file formats, interact with other websites, incorporate appropriate technology to view/download/upload multi-media content and streaming multi-media. Web browsers today provide functionalities like blocking of unwanted pop-up advertisements, spywares and phishing attempts. They provide the convenience of tabbed browsing and come with advanced features like auto-fill and password and download managers.
Web browsers of today are not mere messengers between client and server. They are full-fledged programs capable of using fuzzy logic to select most appropriate content and help the web visitor to browse safely and pleasurably.
Justin Sheehan asked:
Could it be that the evil empire has surrendered? If you haven’t heard Microsoft announced on Tuesday that they will change to a higher level of openness and interoperability with many of its high volume products including an agreement not to sue open-source developers for products that connect to Microsoft software. My question is this: Who locked Bill Gates in a closet?
After all, this is by the company that brought you software bundling and the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. They are like the spoiled kid down the street who won’t share his toys unless you pay him. The real question is why all of a sudden a change of heart?
Many will point to the fact that Bill Gates is retiring and there is a coup occurring within Microsoft’s corporate culture. If you think about it Microsoft is the most developer oriented company there is. Everyone who is anyone at Microsoft started out as a developer and many of them must have misgivings about the company’s history with regard to open-source software. Others will say, such as Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith that this change in policy is a direct response to the European Union lawsuit that was decided in September which found Microsoft guilty of anticompetitive practices. All of these reasons may have had an effect on this decision but make no mistake this is about Google kicking their behinds in web software and online advertising.
I think Microsoft finally realizes that they have past the point of no return. They are no longer king of the block and if they don’t change the way they are perceived and utilized on the web they are going to be the ones monopolized. Google is everything that Microsoft is not. It is accessible and developer friendly. It’s kind of like Hillary Clinton arguing that she is a better administrator than the visionary Barack Obama. It may be factually correct but who are you going to follow? The company that revolves around developers needs to embrace the developer community. This appears to be a small step in that direction but I need to see more before I’m buying it.
Could it be that the evil empire has surrendered? If you haven’t heard Microsoft announced on Tuesday that they will change to a higher level of openness and interoperability with many of its high volume products including an agreement not to sue open-source developers for products that connect to Microsoft software. My question is this: Who locked Bill Gates in a closet?
After all, this is by the company that brought you software bundling and the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. They are like the spoiled kid down the street who won’t share his toys unless you pay him. The real question is why all of a sudden a change of heart?
Many will point to the fact that Bill Gates is retiring and there is a coup occurring within Microsoft’s corporate culture. If you think about it Microsoft is the most developer oriented company there is. Everyone who is anyone at Microsoft started out as a developer and many of them must have misgivings about the company’s history with regard to open-source software. Others will say, such as Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith that this change in policy is a direct response to the European Union lawsuit that was decided in September which found Microsoft guilty of anticompetitive practices. All of these reasons may have had an effect on this decision but make no mistake this is about Google kicking their behinds in web software and online advertising.
I think Microsoft finally realizes that they have past the point of no return. They are no longer king of the block and if they don’t change the way they are perceived and utilized on the web they are going to be the ones monopolized. Google is everything that Microsoft is not. It is accessible and developer friendly. It’s kind of like Hillary Clinton arguing that she is a better administrator than the visionary Barack Obama. It may be factually correct but who are you going to follow? The company that revolves around developers needs to embrace the developer community. This appears to be a small step in that direction but I need to see more before I’m buying it.
linkdude212 asked:
I will highlight a block of text and hit the backspace button, instead of deleting the block of text it will simply move the cursor to the beginning of the block of text. How do I make Microsoft Word 2,007 delete things properly?
I will highlight a block of text and hit the backspace button, instead of deleting the block of text it will simply move the cursor to the beginning of the block of text. How do I make Microsoft Word 2,007 delete things properly?
Anja Glauch asked:
Software giant Microsoft has lost its appeal against the European Commission at the Court of first instance and due to its anti-competitive actions it has been ordered to pay a £345 million fine.
“The court of first instance essentially upholds the commission’s decision finding that Microsoft abused its dominant position”- Court’s statement.
Over the past 9 years the European Commission has battled against Microsoft to make the software market a more competitive one. More recently in 2004, Microsoft was ordered to share information with its software rivals, so that their products could operate with other computer systems. As well as making their Windows operation software available without Windows Media Player, which was seen as being anti-competitive since the user would not have a direct option as to what entertainment software to use.
On Monday the court has ruled that Microsoft’s behaviour has been anti-competitive, and that their software should not be sold as part of a package and that they should share information with rivals. Microsoft is now unlikely to appeal again, and will comply with the demands. However they feel that handing information over to rivals would only affect theirs and competitors creativity.
Neelie Koroes, the competition commissioner has stated that “Microsoft cannot abuse its windows monopoly to exclude competitors in other markets”. She has also predicted Microsoft’s 95% market share to decrease.
Software giant Microsoft has lost its appeal against the European Commission at the Court of first instance and due to its anti-competitive actions it has been ordered to pay a £345 million fine.
“The court of first instance essentially upholds the commission’s decision finding that Microsoft abused its dominant position”- Court’s statement.
Over the past 9 years the European Commission has battled against Microsoft to make the software market a more competitive one. More recently in 2004, Microsoft was ordered to share information with its software rivals, so that their products could operate with other computer systems. As well as making their Windows operation software available without Windows Media Player, which was seen as being anti-competitive since the user would not have a direct option as to what entertainment software to use.
On Monday the court has ruled that Microsoft’s behaviour has been anti-competitive, and that their software should not be sold as part of a package and that they should share information with rivals. Microsoft is now unlikely to appeal again, and will comply with the demands. However they feel that handing information over to rivals would only affect theirs and competitors creativity.
Neelie Koroes, the competition commissioner has stated that “Microsoft cannot abuse its windows monopoly to exclude competitors in other markets”. She has also predicted Microsoft’s 95% market share to decrease.
Sally F asked:
I consider myself a yahooligan. I like to insult microsoft and bill gates every chance I get. I am concerned that if microsoft controls yahoo that I will loose my forum to insult microsoft and bill gates. Plus microsoft already has their gruby hands on hot mail. Why do they think they need yahoo.
I consider myself a yahooligan. I like to insult microsoft and bill gates every chance I get. I am concerned that if microsoft controls yahoo that I will loose my forum to insult microsoft and bill gates. Plus microsoft already has their gruby hands on hot mail. Why do they think they need yahoo.
wax_flowers asked:
I recently installed Microsoft Office Word onto my laptop, after I had to delete it for another issue, and used Microsoft Works Processor for a while. But now that’s my default for opening documents. How can I make it Mic. Office word instead?
I recently installed Microsoft Office Word onto my laptop, after I had to delete it for another issue, and used Microsoft Works Processor for a while. But now that’s my default for opening documents. How can I make it Mic. Office word instead?
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