I burst out laughing when I saw this ad in which Ballmer is doing everything he can to sell Windows 1.0 (1986)



We have reason to believe that the next version of Windows Server will be named Windows Server 2007 according to an article on the MSDN Library where it mentions the abovenamed a few times.

Check the article here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx

Update: Bink.nu has also reported this.

Here’s a selection of some of the most funny pictures I could find through a simple Windows Live search of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. Some of these are unreal, but here they are for your gawping pleasure. Click on a thumbnail to enlarge.

These latest figures are from Neilsen NetRatings from March 2007.

Windows Live Hotmail: Unique Users: 32,963,416 - Page Views: 7,051,909,897
Windows Live Messenger: Unique Users: 26,240,676 - Page Views: 34,420,058
Windows Live Spaces: Unique Users: 128,298,007

Update: I can’t quite work out where these figures relate to… I think they might be for the United States, but I’ve lost track of it. Sorry

I’m giving away a copy of the best version of the latest office suite from Microsoft, Office 2007 Ultimate. See a picture of the box here if you must, and the competition is simple. We here at Live and Beyond are simple folk, who like to work hard but also love to have a laugh. The competition is this, I’d like you to give us links to images, or plain stories about “weird things you’ve seen whilst commuting” and to start you all off, I’ve got an example.

On the way to work one August morning (and I’ve only just found this image on my phone), a pigeon was sitting in a seat on the London Underground minding its own business. Once the train arrived at Picadilly Circus Tube station where I was alighting, the pigeon jumped off the seat, walked over to the door and calmly walked off the train, jumped then flew down the Tube to wherever it was going. I have an image to support this, check it out.

For a chance to win nearly £500 (around $980) worth of software, leave a comment below and an image if you have one, and tell us your funny story about things you’ve seen whilst commuting. The best story gets the package. Go!

COMPETITION OVER: Although all the entries were great, we’ve dispatched the Office 2007 disk to Larry Grasham who although didn’t have a photo, made me laugh the most. Keep tuned for more giveaways

I was really excited when I found out that you can use a USB drive as a RAM booster on Vista but was disappointed when Vista decided that my USB drive (1GB Microsoft MVP edition) does not meet the requirements. WTF??

Well, I came across an article by Chris..

“Got a USB stick that Windows Vista doesn’t want to use for memory? Read how to use it anyway.

Sooner or later, everyone’s computer tends to slow down. Call it old age or simply doing too much, but even the most cutting edge PC’s seem to lag after a year or so of use.

For those who aren’t keen on opening up their PC to put in more memory, Windows Vista has a handy little feature called ReadyBoost that can use USB sticks for additional memory. Unfortunately, Windows Vista doesn’t take kindly to the slower sticks on the market and refuses to use them. Proving once again that we control the computer and not the other way around, here’s four simple steps to get around this limitation and use any USB stick you have to increase your computers memory.”

Click here to read the article and boost your PC speed in no time!

(It seems to be down, Click here to see the cache)

You’ve probably heard already by now that Beta 3 of Windows Server “Longhorn” has been released and is ready to be shown off to the world, and to save you navigating half of Microsoft’s website, you can just click the links below.

We have no idea when, or indeed if these links will die, so hurry up and download them now before it’s too late. We recommend using Free Download Manager as it’ll resume your download quite nicely if you get disconnected. Read more at www.microsoft.com/getbeta3.

Links at source

Source: Document.write

While news on the “Live Drive” front has been rather non-existant of late, there are some signs that may be about to change. A new service, Windows Live Folders beta, was recently listed on the Windows Live Feedback site, though it was only a matter of days before it was removed. While it doesn’t take a genius to work out this is likely to be a storage service, the question is what will it be? A revamped FolderShare, the “Live Drive” cloud storage service everybody has been waiting for, or a combination of both?

The initial details being discussed at TechEd last year were for a cloud storage service offering 2GB of space for free. Looking at services that have been operating in this market for a while, this figure seems to be lower than what will eventually be offered. Xdrive currently offers 5GB for free and 50GB for $9.95 a month but without the economies of scale that Microsoft can draw upon. (The newest Microsoft datacenter opened in Quincy at the end of last month and more are on the way.) Interestingly enough, the online Apple service .mac is still offering a basic service of just 1GB for $100 a year and a total of 4GB for another $100 a year. With Windows Live Hotmail offering a 2GB inbox (Hotmail Plus 4GB), it definitely makes sense for a Windows Live cloud storage service to offer significantly more than this.

The other key feature that was talked about last year is being able to map your online storage to your PC so you can access it as you would any other drive. The existing Windows Live Messenger feature, Shared Folders, does this already for peer-to-peer sharing, so perhaps this is where the name Windows Live Folders comes in.

To save our intrepid readers from doing this themselves, folders.live.com currently points to the new Windows Live beta site. One question I do have is how would people use a cloud storage service and therefore how much storage space would they need - would you pay for more if the price was right?

Source: LiveSide

Ask.com’s CEO Jim Lanzone issued a statement explaining the new campaign that includes the intriguing ad copy:
The Algorithm Constantly Finds Jesus.

“Ask.com has launched an advertising campaign focused on ‘The Algorithm.’ The goal is to incite a consumer conversation around the importance of a search engine’s algorithm and its integral role in making one engine different from another, Lanzone said.

‘The Algorithm’ is the single most important ingredient that determines the relevance of search results, yet its impact on the overall search experience is taken for granted by most consumers. At Ask.com, we feel that in order to drive consumer awareness and use of our engine, it is important to highlight the uniqueness of our algorithm, which takes a different approach to ranking than our competitors. The Ask.com algorithm’s relevance methodology goes beyond the popularity focus of Google, Yahoo and MSN’s, and is the only one to break the Web down into topic clusters and determine community-based relevance in real time.”

 [Via SearchEngineWatch]