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The iPad Hype

250.000 pre-orders in Germany alone, the iPad will have its debut in 2 hours in the United States. Pre-sales in Germany exceeded 4 times the anticipation and according to my sources at Apple even a lot of businessmen want one too. Usually, … Continue reading

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Linux does look better in Windows

Just for fun, this is no reference to Linus Torvalds biography, here’s a screenshot of Windows7 with a hacked uxtheme link library and Firefox with alpha stage add-ons showing the upcoming Firefox 4 design. Overall, hacking the uxtheme.dll and applying … Continue reading

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Microsoft does look better in Linux

Linux does look good. It even looks so good, that Microsoft’s website seemingly looks better if rendered in Linux. It’s not that surprising that Jung von Matt, Germany’s Top Tier advertising agency turned down Microsoft as client due to its … Continue reading

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Where do you want to go today, Microsoft ?

Microsoft is not longer inventing must-have gadgeds like the iPod, e-book viewers like Amazon’s Kindle, Smartphones like the iPhone or Blackberry nor popular web services like Facebook or Twitter. It fits in the big picture that “almost all the executives … Continue reading

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Windows 7 Release Candidate phases out

Microsoft shuts down RC1 of Windows 7 Continue reading

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Use Hotmail as free Exchange Server

Now everybody would agree: Since Microsoft took over 10 years ago, Hotmail has become a pain. It’s Webinterface is slow and even worse incompatible with so called 3rd Party Browsers. Heck, you can’t even forward your  mail to mailboxes outside the … Continue reading

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 at the beginning of websites in Linux

That cryptic sign, the  is a BOM – a byte order mark. This is set by some text editors, if you encode your page as UTF-8. Most commonly Microsoft Editors like Visual Studio or Expression Web add this BOM … Continue reading

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