Brady J. Frey

May 28th, 2008

Microsoft: You are in a helicopter

Neil Bishop, IT man at BPB, emailed me this entertaining tidbit today: A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The ...

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April 17th, 2008

Microsoft Vista SP1 Video: 80’s humor, today!

I lost a part of myself this morning I'll never get back, thanks to this Microsoft Vista internal pitch:

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April 7th, 2008

Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors

Microsoft sends an aggressive, and somehow sour, message to Yahoo! Board of Directors. I can't help but giggle at the tone of professionally whining in this letter- like the big kid not catching the hint at being ignored. Yahoo!, just as much as anyone, knows that although the money ...

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March 24th, 2008

Why even advertise, MSN?

Todd Bishop asks Why are these ads for MSN, not Windows Live - I'm wondering why they'd even advertise. Google gets to write snart billboards if they so choose seeing as they're the big kid on the block (but they don't, in fact they write smart ...

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March 6th, 2008

Microsoft releases the first IE8 Beta

Microsoft is releasing it's first public beta of IE 8 today. It should be interesting to see what bug fixes are in store for developers, and what new bugs we'll need to work around.

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