Wenn dieses, in Jahr 2136 getan wird, ist es das letzte Mal, das ich überhaupt die brennende Funktion der eingebauten CD in Windows verwende.

Quellen dieses ist Einweg, Marktanteil zu halten hervor, wenn Sie ein Viertel von Million Dollar für einen Marketing-Etat haben. Abfahrend vom heutigen Tag, bewirtet Microsoft eine zweimonatige Förderung, „Das Geschäft IE7 mit mehr Vertrauen Lotterien“ in der Teilhaberschaft mit PayPal, zum 25 glücklichen Benutzern jede $10.000 zu geben, um über PayPal aufzuwenden.

Sicher konnten sie dieses Geld zurück in die Entwicklung des Internet Explorer gesetzt haben, um es a zu bilden konkurrierenderes web browser, aber das würde nicht sein, während Spaß es wurde?

Um hereinzukommen, wird es vorgeschlagen daß Sie zuerst a aufpassen lächerlich bohrende grelle Animation bevor zu umadressiert werden Eintragung Seite (oder gehen Sie einfach gerade zu es), füllen Sie dann ein Antragsformular auf der Förderungweb site aus. Gleichwohl, da der Name vorschlägt, es eine Förderung für Internet Explorer 7 also ist, ist es sinnvoll, das Sie es verwenden müssen, um die Seite zugänglich zu machen. Wenn Sie versuchen, die Seite von anderen Datenbanksuchroutinen zugänglich zu machen, wird sie bitten Sie Sie zuerst zu downloaden und bringen Sie IE7 an. Glücklicherweise für Firefox mögen sich Benutzer, IETab gibt das beste beider Welten in den Situationen so. Traurig, aber ich glauben Sie dem sogar überzeugten Einkaufen mit Firefox. Die Lotterie beendet am 31. Januar 2008.

Manchmal wünschte ich, daß Australien gerade werden könnte 51st Zustand der Vereinigten Staaten gerade so ich kann an allen diesen Lotterien teilnehmen. Und für eine Weile unter der Howard Regierung, schien das nicht zu weit

Ich habe mich gewundert, wann Microsoft schließlich einführt Silverlight auf zu seiner eigenen Web site. Für eine lange Zeit die Silverlight Animation auf frontpage advertising itself was somewhat of a disappointment and a paradox - ironically requiring Silverlight to be installed to view the ad showing off the capabilities of itself.

Today (via ActiveWin), Microsoft has quietly launched a beta of its Downloads Center website presented entirely in Silverlight which demonstrates some of the rich user-experience capabilities it has been long promising. Although not to say it doesn’t have its fair share of problems either.

On the welcome page of the Microsoft Download Center beta website, they explain the purpose of the beta and their goals to “spruce up the site and make it easier to discover and download Microsoft software”. The only requirement is at least Silverlight version 0.95 to be installed.

At first look, this site bears a lot of resemblance to the current Microsoft.com frontpage which is a good sign of consistency - something the Microsoft site lacks very much. But it also means what you see here at least can be easily achieved with just traditional HTML and CSS. Only when you start interacting with certain elements you begin to notice the difference. And for a Microsoft site, they’ve certainly raised the bar in terms of attention to detail.

For example, the navigation menu on the right has a baby-smooth transition between as one category collapses and

Say hello to an orchestra of sound snippet in your instant messenger. The Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta was released today sporting a handful of new features as already uncovered last week by LiveSide. One feature in particular called Signature Sound is giving users the power to customize the sound their contacts hear when they come online. However as annoying that might sound (pun), what’s more interesting and actually useful is the embedded sound editor used to customize your Signature Sound and every other sound in Messenger.

From here, you can select any sound files in WMA, WAV or MP3 format to edit. Once you click on a valid sound file, it will take a few seconds to analyze the file and display a sound wave spectrum for you to edit.

The interface for this editor is similar to any mainstream sound editor applications in which it displays a selection box with a start and end point to clip a segment of an audio track. Messenger restricts all of its sounds to a maximum of 5 seconds which might seem to restrict creativity, but you’ll be thankful when your friends pop online later.

The user can move the left and right boundaries anywhere between the two blue arrows to define a start and end of their sound clip. To move back and forth in the timeline, you simply drag the

Thanks to a tip from Steve Clayton, a treasure chest of Windows Longhorn inspired PC design concepts has been just unearthed. An industrial design company located in San Francisco called Ammunition were recently interviewed as part of a Wired article on evolving PC designs. Following the link to their website shows an array of computer-related design concepts for a variety of companies including Microsoft.

An image overlay of a Longhorn screenshot indicates these were commissioned for the purpose of demonstrating to OEMs how Microsoft envisioned Longhorn PCs. In relations to the other Microsoft-commissioned Windows PC concepts by Carbon Design, these are much earlier. The Aero Glass theme is clearly carried throughout in both concepts.

Microsoft Oxygen concept desktop system that converts from typical use mode, to media viewing, to pen input.

Microsoft Zinc concept intended for countertop use.

Microsoft Carbon concept micro PC with high object value.

Microsoft Argon concept entertainment biased all-in-one PC.

Microsoft Cobalt convertible notebook/tablet system.

It’s interesting to see how similar the Oxygen is to the current generation iMacs when they are easily years apart of each other. But it’s important to realize Apple designs Macs but Microsoft doesn’t design Windows PCs. To say Microsoft doesn’t have taste is not entirely correct if the above concepts are any indication.

Yesterday I got one of these promotional pocket cards for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2008 competition, and in it was a clever surprise. Imagine Cup for those who don’t know is an annual Microsoft-sponsored competition exclusively for students worldwide to compete in a range of computer technology related categories including but not limited to software design, games development and film. This year’s theme is the environment.

The special touch to the pocket card is a little piece of plantable seed paper attached to the bottom. It contains the seeds of a native Australian shrub called Callistemon. Whilst it would have been way cooler if the entire card was printed on seed paper, this is a great effort to do something positive for the environment as well as promoting native Australian plants.