If you’re a student then you have it pretty good when it comes to high-end software packages. Most companies provide either a student/education version, heavy discounts or an express-type version. Sometimes there are minor restrictions  but in general these companies are pretty generous, even if only out of self interest.
For all our criticisms of Microsoft [...]

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Microsoft announced it’s latest lineup of Zune products to a fairly underwhelming response, which was  frankly also fairly well expected.
It’s easy to get cynical about the Zune, especially considering Microsoft’s promises about delivering an amazing iPod killing device three years back.
The original Zune was pretty ugly, far too bulky and came in an attractive poo-brown. [...]

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From the whole “Google is an OS” discussion going on across the blogosphere you’d think Microsoft is in complete denial about the future of cloud computing and has absolutely no initiatives in place.
Well soon we’ll get a glimpse of the possibilities of Windows Live Mesh synchronisation platform, and it’s a hell of a lot more [...]

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Microsoft has released four Microsoft Security Bulletins for September 2008. All updates are rated critical and it is recommended to update the computer system running Windows operating systems or Microsoft software as soon as possible.
The updates are available for pretty much every Windows operating system from Windows XP to Windows Server 2008. The easiest way [...]

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Joshua’s post about Windows Live Wave 3 sparked an interesting discussion in the comments about a portable version of Live Writer. The consensus was that a portable version of Windows Live Writer existed and that users should search for it if they wanted to use it.
Since I’m a nice helpful guy I decided to post [...]

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