If you have SkyDrive (Microsoft) you need to log in over at www.live.com and reserve your free 25GB. Microsoft is changing the default free space to 7GB, but existing users can save their 25GB of free space.

Glyn Moody writes "Microsoft is at it again: trying to redefine what 'open' means. This time it wants open standards to be 'balanced' - for them to include patent-encumbered technologies under RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms. Which just happens to be incompatible with free software licensed under the GNU GPL."

Microsoft™ Word™ 2007 just froze up on me.

I did something else for a while hoping that it'd unfreeze, but it didn't, so I killed it.

Fired it back up, and both of the options for the recovered file were useless.

Piece of $#!+.

/rant

OK, I created a barcode thing with Microsoft TagIt's the icon for this entry ( Read more... )

Microsoft gives away Viewer software for the various files created by its Office suite ( Read more... )

...from /.:

Ian Lamont writes "Microsoft has come back to Yahoo with a new offer that would involve it buying part of Yahoo. No details have been released, but sources told the Wall Street Journal that part of the arrangement would involve Microsoft selling display ads next to Yahoo search results. No word yet on how this will impact Carl Icahn' ( Read more... )

So why would Microsoft want to get into the crazy businesses that Yahoo! plays in-social networks, advertising sales, photo-sharing sites, search directories, personal ads, phone-sex come-ons, news summaries, stock charting, scrapbooking, dogs and cats, MySpace wannabees, and so on. Are you folks at Microsoft clinically insane? Have you not learned ( Read more... )

Thank you ( Read more... )

...and the FAQ.HTML file on the root of the resulting CD is for SP2.

That's so very encouraging.

*sigh*

Though the fight continues, it appears that Yahoo! is willing to be bought my Microsoft...just for more money.

I guess, when my flickr pro sub is up, I'll be paying some other photo hosting company.

Unless, somehow, flickr remains unchanged or gets better in my opinion. Being integrated into Microsoft Live or whatever does NOT count as "