Category: Software
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Microsoft, Yahoo… and Skype?
Yesterday’s announcement from Microsoft and Yahoo! on the inter-operability between their instant messengers is a good step forward in making it even easier for people to communicate via the net: Consumers worldwide from Microsoft and Yahoo! will be able to…
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IE7 beta 3 available
If you installed Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 when Microsoft opened up the beta for general public testing, note that beta 3 is now available for download from today. The list of changes from beta 2 to beta 3 make…
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New ecto for Windows beta
If you use the ecto for Windows 2.0 blog editing software, note that version 2.1 beta was released yesterday. The major new features in this beta are the addition of Amazon support – you can now search Amazon from within ecto to add…
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Microsoft to publish privacy guidelines
Like most Windows users, I have my PCs set up to get security and other critical patches from Microsoft automatically. It seems the most sensible thing to do so you don’t need to remember to manually go to Windows Update…
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Copyright your Office docs with Creative Commons
Here’s a very useful new feature from Microsoft and Creative Commons, announced yesterday – the ability to embed a Creative Commons copyright license directly in your Word, PowerPoint or Excel file. This is something I’ve been doing for a while, especially…