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Why this fuss over FOSS and Non-Foss?

Test: Go to some company and tell them about a free product that outsmart theirs..they will fuss over the free software and free software culture. Now, go to some foss activist, and talk to them about some proprietary software or Microsoft. They will start harassing them.

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Microsoft has taken a plunge into the URL Shortening market with its own URL Shortener – Binged.it. The massive surge in Twitter’s popularity has bolstered the URL shortening market and it seems that every one wants to have their own short URL.

Binged.it is not yet public and is currently available only for internal use.

Microsoft Word Sample

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Just a sample

Microsoft Word Sample

Microsoft Office 2007 in Linux

Well I don't like to say this, but OpenOffice is not so good as Microsoft Office. It lacks in many features that Microsoft Office has.

But you don't want to use Windows for that single reason cause using Windows is a big hell of a job. This tutorial is meant to solve the same problem for Linux users.

MS Visual Studio 2010 to be launched

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Microsoft announced today that they will be launching Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on March 22. The version of the product being launched is second beta along with .NET Framework devleoper tools 4.0. Both products are to be released on the same day i.e. March 22.

The product has a very special feature called 'Tivo-like recording' that Microsoft has masked as Intelli Trace.

Installing Windows 7 on netbooks

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Netbook have small specs. So most of us might think - because the kernel code is same in Windows Vista and Windows 7, Windows 7 may NOT work on a netbook.

But it does. It works better than Vista. Microsoft popped up in 2008 at the developer conference that Windows 7 should run on such small systems, and they have succeeded.

Free Software Foundation Launches Public Awareness Campaign Against Microsoft And Proprietary Software

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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 -- The Free

Microsoft launching a new search engine

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Mr. Bill Gates doesn't seem to have given up on the idea of having Microsoft's search engine, so it plans to release a redesign of current search engines owned by Microsoft (MSN & Live) hoping that it'd get 'em more traffic.

Windows XP's Days are Really Numbered Now

In 10 weeks, Microsoft Corp. will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old OS into a more limited support plan.

Windows XP, Microsoft's most successful operating system ever, will leave what the company calls "mainstream support" on April 14, and enter "extended support." Typically, Microsoft keeps a product in the former for five years, then moves it into the latter for another five, for a total of 10 years. However, the long span between the releases of XP and its successor, Windows Vista, forced the company to push out the support deadline to 13 years altogether.

Get The Windows7 Theme for Xp and Vista

Patches always needed:

Windows XP: uxtheme.dll Patcher.

Windows Vista: uxtheme.dll Patcher.

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