Home Server: An Illustration

Rai    Microsoft     home server, illustration, Microsoft, story book

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Microsoft Vista for $1,632 Only

Rai    Microsoft     customer complaint, Microsoft, upgrade, vista

consumerist.com writes about a customer who got charged for his Windows Vista Upgrade for $1,632!

Apparently, Bill, an IT Manager, used the Windows Live Marketplace to purchase the Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade worth $233.15. But each time he tried to enter his payment information, he got the error “please try again” later. And so he did. Unluckily, Bill got charged each time he tried to enter the payment details, which he did 7 times!

Again, that is $233.15 * 7 = $1,632.05. Totally a rip-off!

Bill tried to contact Microsoft support again and again and again to get his money back but only four of the transactions were returned. The remaining three transactions are yet to be refunded.

Steve Ballmer Egged at Budapest

Rai    Microsoft, News     bill gates, budapest, hungary, Microsoft, steve ballmer

This is a little snip from YouTube when Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer was thrown with eggs by a protesting student in Budapest.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was thrown with eggs in BudapestBallmer was giving a talk titled, You Can Change the World, to Hungarian university students when someone from the audience stood up, demanded that Microsoft should return money it has stolen from Hungarian people and threw eggs, right in front of Ballmer’s face. Ballmer scrambles for cover as he dodges the eggs, and luckily, he still has a clean face when stood up from behind the podium. read more

Windows 7 Preview

Rai    Microsoft     windows 7

This a short preview of Windows 7, yet another version of Windows set to be released in 2010, three years after Windows Vista official release.

The preview shows some of the new and improved features of Windows like the Explorer. Personally, I am curious about the blog/website designer since I am a blogger myself. Though the features are pretty at this point, expect Windows 7 to be more hardware resource hungry than Vista. read more

Microsoft Courtship Gets Aggressive

Rai    Microsoft, News     bidding, Microsoft, public, yahoo

Apparently, Microsoft means serious business when it puts its $44B of its money in exchange for Yahoo’s cooperation. The software giant just won’t take no for an answer.

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