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The Mile Island nuke plant will be restarted under a 20-year deal to provide power for Microsoft data centers. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/constellation-three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-data-center-ppa/727652 Also reported in paywalled but generally accurate sources like...

- Yeah, yeah, I know, the answer is junk Microsoft and get something better, but I've got too much invested in them right now (equipment, software etc.) to just drop them and move on. Plus, I'm poor AF. I know I can use Word instead, but Notepad is much simpler for what I want to do and that...

Windows 11 announced I thought that they said W10 would be the last operating system. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/24/microsoft-windows-11-event-live-updates.html

After discovering I had a flat battery in my laptop and hand-writing a few pages of my short story, I attempted to use Windows 10's speech recognition as a quick way to enter the work I had done. Below is the result, I think I might have to do a little more work with it. Does anyone else have...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at age 65

Hiya everyone, I have a problem, and wonder if anyone can help, or has had a similar problem ? Here it is.... I used to use a Hotmail account... <username>@Hotmail.co.uk. I only EVER used the web interface to receive my emails etc. Over the years, I built up a large body of contacts, as...

This surely cannot be the first time that I've noticed this but Excel doesn't allow me to have to workbooks/spreadsheets with the same name, but in different folders, open at the same time? :mad: This seems a bit backward to me. I just tested and I can have two Word Documents open with the...

Linux users may have found that they can not log on to the skype network anymore without ungrading their software. Unfortunately, when they do, they don't have mike or sound. It appears that Microsoft will not allow skype software that accesses ALSA to login to the network anymore (hence the...

Three of the four best-selling laptops on Amazon are Chromebooks. http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/late-year-sales-suggest-it-s-finally-time-to-take-google-chromebooks-seriously-1211128 I just ordered one, the Acer C720. It cost $200 and will replace the ancient Gateway...

Tech giants at work, stifling innovation and finding ways to siphon money without producing anything of value... http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+and+Microsoft+Expand+Patent+Trolling+Sue+TWC+Cisco+via+Subsidiary/article33987c.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-03/microsoft-to-buy-nokia-phone-business-for-248-billion/4932090 Is this good news or bad news? Notice of interest: My current phone is a Nokia E71 and I hope my next phone will a new Nokia Lumia of some sort.

Sales don't even cover advertising costs. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/microsoft_surface_sales_disaster/ How many more disasters will the board tolerate before they give Ballmer a pink slip?

For those who don't know: Microsoft's Expression products had been their attempt to break into the art scene of computer applications. Though, historically, they have primarily been used for rich application development by people who are designers, rather than developers. That could be about to...

I'm in the middle of a monstrous upgrade of our timecard tracking software (not my area of expertise, but it got dumped in my lap). I keep getting errors running the scripts that are auto-generated by the upgrader the vendor provided. The scripts continue for a while despite the errors, but...

So, almost two years ago I posted this predicting the death of the PC within 15 years. I'm now considering revising that figure downwards, and adding tablets and smart phones to the same dead list. Why? Check out what Mircosoft is working on to challange Google and Apple...

Just thought I'd add a tip here in case anyone is like me and wants to upgrade their preview Windows 8 to the released version. According to the setup programme it can't be done, you have to do a new install and all you can keep is your files. Which I wasn't very happy about as I've been using...

Microsoft: One in 14 Downloads Is Malicious

Not being much of an Apple user, I was wondering how it stacked up to Microsoft. Thoughts?

I've decided that my next laptop is going to be a 13" MacBook Pro. I haven't used a Mac for about twenty years. The first computer I ever used (apart from the TRS-80, which I don't think counts) was a Macintosh. This was in 1986. My school had two computer labs - one with Macs (the 512k and...

..... will belong to him. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11117587 Which is why I like to keep my internets private and exclusive.

:hb: When you have a VM that you use only every few months, and you turn it on you go through just an incredible amount of pain with things that want to upgrade and all of them want to reboot you. I have to figure on an hour to do that before I can get moving whenever I turn on a VM that has...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-family-pack-upgrade,9218.html I think this only encourages piracy. Microsoft finally offers a family pack (3 OS upgrades at a discount price) and then kill it after it sells out. Great move especially when other OSes that consumers could install are...

"Windows 7 'took ideas' from Apple" (And please lets not get into any mac v pc, Apple v Microsoft fanboy crap.) I've been using Windows 7 as my main PC's OS since it was released and my secondary PC is a Mac running OS/X and I have to say I really can't see what MS is meant to have borrowed...

According to PR Newswire, a judge has ordered MS to stop selling Word as it is now over a patent dispute from some company called i4i over something about XML documents. I say "as it is now," because I think it's about a specific set of capabilities in Word, not Word itself. But still, doesn't...

The EU courts decided against Microsoft with respect to bundling the IE browser with Windows. They said it gave them an unfair advantage over other browser makers. So, when Windows 7 is released in the EU, it will not have a browser installed. How many users in the EU do you think will find...

I have a pretty simple little MP3 player that I just plug into my USB drive to transfer files over. Everything works fairly well, but there is one problem with Microsoft's Windows Explorer, and that's the ridiculous last shall be first and first shall be last bug. Quite simply, if you grab...

Windows 7 has been RC1 for about a week. I'm completely happy with it. Anyone else out there using it?

Anybody got a take on what is happening here? Are Microsoft about to try and cut out the Linux "cancer"?

I recently installed the release version of IE8 but it seems to have a problem with not only the google search box (see attachment) but it is also affecting pages i need for work and which only work in IE. Does anybody know what to do about the mini search boxes? I'm running XP Media Center w...

Okay you people still running XP will know what I'm talking about. After talking with friends I have come to the conclusion that Service Pack 3 was nothing but a conspriacy to screw up the fully functional and mostly stable XP and thus get more people to throw their hands in the air and buy the...