All Entries Tagged With: "Microsoft"
MSN 8 for Mac — The Long Wait is Over
[UPDATE]: Couple of the readers reported back to me that MSN 8.0 beta for Mac kept crashing on their Mac OS X (both 10.5 and 10.6), however, it works fine on my 10.6.3. Just to remember, this is only a beta version; it’s not a bad idea to wait till the official release. If you [...]
Microsoft Hotmail Forwarding Fails
I have been with Microsoft Hotmail for more than 10 years; according to Wikipedia, Hotmail was initially released in July, 1996, and my account was created in Sep, 1999. It was the best free public email you could have at that age. It was all good to me at the beginning until its competitors rise [...]
Quick fix: Microsoft Office 2008 “Installation Failed”
I just recently installed a copy of Microsoft Office 2008 for my friend and encountered an interesting problem. He is using Simplified Chinese as his system language on Snow Leopard; when I tried to install Office 2008 on it, the software keep giving me the error message saying that “Installation Failed” because the installer cannot [...]
Mac and Linux users dislike bing?
Chitika reveal the analysis on the relationship between search engine and different OS users. From this chart, we can see that majority of the users still use Google (with no surprise), then follow by Yahoo! and bing. I found it very interesting that almost all of the people using bing is from Windows users; [...]
The upgrade battle between Apple and Microsoft
As we all might know already, the two big OS company continue their battles. Apple to release latest Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard, in September while Microsoft to release Windows 7 on October 22nd. Despite their enhancement and hardware requirement, let’s first look at the upgrade chart. Microsoft’s Windows 7 upgrade chart: Not difficult [...]