3 posts tagged “microsoft”

So ive been trying to get hold of some working IE 5.5+ to test my system but lo and behold, despite many web statistics out there, everyone i know seems to be using IE 7. I can get access to IE6, but I will have to travel to the school library for that: work there, debug there, etc.

Anyway, I scoured the net for some way to run both side-by-side and found an msn article (can't remember where) that says that the best way is to run Ms Virtual PC 2007. So I did. Managed to install the free program, and ho ho ho. I have no idea why I assumed it came with Windows inside it. Anyway, so I had to reinstall windows XP SP2. That took ages to do. And then even after it started running, my installation ran like steamed rice (not engine). It took an hour or two just to load windows. And dunn get me started on trying to run IE. I even had to activate windows and that took very long as well. Not sure what I did wrong. Im running it on my Dell Inspiron 6000, so it shouldnt be that much of a problem. I noticed that Virtual PC 2007 didnt take that much memory, but the hd accesses are a lot and my CPU is always stuck at 90% to 100%.

Thats when I descovered Multiple IE *yay*

It installs fast, works almost great (I think). I ran IE6 and it opens the msn start page and shows some errors on the page. That can't be right, can it?

A very interesting parody of the new (a few weeks?) Microsoft Surface Computer a.k.a a big ass table :P

I've been reading a few news recently about the picture on three mysterious dudes in the Ms Vista Business DVD. Read this one via Slashdot and check out the end of the article quoting Paul Miller's article in Engadget:

"This being Microsoft, the photo naturally depicts three total nerds grinning excessively at their own cleverness."

hillarious :P