Gary Eckstein WordPress 0 Automattic, blogging, blogs, Internet, Microsoft, websites, windows, WordPress
It has been announced that the 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers are being moved to WordPress.com. Windows Live Spaces (previously MSN Spaces) is Microsoft’s free blogging service. This is obviously a massive boost for WordPress which already powers an estimated 8% of Websites; not only does WordPress gain 30 million Blogs but also enhanced [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 computer, Docs, freeware, google docs, GZIP, ImgBurn, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Office, open source, open source project, openoffice, Software, software suite, windows, Zip
In January the ten free software products that I deemed best were documented. The list included; Notepad++, WordPress Content Management System, FileZilla FTP, Mozilla Firefox, Google Picasa, XAMPP, Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Security Essentials, FeedReader RSS Reader and Moodle Learning Management System. There are however other equally brilliant software that is free to install and [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 bing, Caffeine, chrome, clusty, gmail, google, google docs, Internet, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, news corp, Office, Outlook, windows, wolfram alpha, yahoo
The reason that the vast majority of people use Google as their preferred Search Engine over others (e.g. Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Clusty, Wolfram Alpha etc.) is because Google does search best. Google has such huge Search Engine market share because it returns more relevant results to searchers and is constantly improving. Google does well because [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 3 apps, chrome, consumers, goog, google, margins, ms office, msft, office software, onenote, operating system, PowerPoint, seo, shareholders, subscribers, windows, windows operating systems, word
Microsoft has announced that ‘lightweight Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote’ will be available free of charge through Windows Live in 2010. This is certainly excellent news for the 400 million odd Windows Live subscribers however should Microsoft (MSFT) shareholders be concerned? After all, Microsoft has had significant financial success over the [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 call center, call centre, computer, dell, dell service, dell xps, fujitsu, india, laptop, laptops, outsource, pc, samsung, vista, warranty, windows
Dell, the PC brand, went through a difficult patch a few years back in terms of less than desirable service. Certainly, from my recent experience, those bad old days are over. My laptop of choice is a Dell XPS m1330. Its light weight, fast, the battery lasts for hours and the screen is great (the downside of the [...]
