Since being awarded my MVP from Microsoft on January 1st this year I’ve had a fair few questions from people asking about the MVP program, what it is, what the benefits are and how you can become one. I thought I’d write this up here for you all as a guide as we all know [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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gHacks Editor at Microsoft UK Tech.Days + Win a Tablet PC
It’s all go here at gHacks.net (as per usual) and just to show some of those other Windows, Microsoft and tech websites out there that they’re not all as impressive as they might think they are we’re doing more and more every week and bringing you bigger and better stuff. For all of you Tech Pros in [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Microsoft Report Confirms Lower Infection Rate On Windows 7
If you were looking for a reason to make the switch to Windows 7, you may have found it in form of Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report. The document, available for public download at Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report website, covers the state of Windows, application and web security in the year 2010. Security interested users [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Microsoft Buys Skype, What Does It Mean For You?
Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion Dollars, that’s the big news today. This deal brings up lots of questions. Did Microsoft overpay for Skype? The current owners have bought Skype one and a half year ago from eBay for $2.75 billion Dollars, which makes the $8.5 billion Dollar offer an increase of more than [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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gHacks and Windows7News at Microsoft UK, Part 1
Those of you who follow me here or somewhere like Twitter might know that I was invited to Microsoft yesterday for meetings. Apparently my name had been coming up in conversation and several people there wanted to see me. I thought I’d write up here about my experience at Microsoft’s UK campus and split this into a two-part [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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gHacks go to Microsoft
As a new Windows MVP I’ll be having my first meetings next week with Microsoft at their UK head office in Reading. It’s going to be very interesting as it’s my first official visit to the company and, more importantly, a meeting that’s been requested by them rather than me. I’ll be meeting with the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 13
Internet Explorer 10 Will Not Support Vista, XP
It was more or less clear that Microsoft’s upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10 would not support Windows XP, considering that Internet Explorer 9 did not support the operating system as well. Windows Vista users on the other hand were caught by surprise that their operating system would not be supported by IE10 as well. [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Is Microsoft the Apple of my Eye?
It’s that old chestnut that rears it’s ugly head now and again, but usually with some alarming regularity. What am I talking about, well my apparent bias towards Microsoft of course and my hatred of Apple. At least that’s what the nay-sayers would have you believe. I always thought it would be entertaining one day [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 8
Tablets, Where Do We Need to Be, and How Do We Get There?
The tablet market is exploding and growing exponentially, but it’s still not reaching a critical mass with the general public not embracing them in the way they did netbooks. So why is this happening and how do tablets need to change in order for them to become the next generation of computing device. Let’s look primarily [...]