Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'

Free Vista CD to be posted out this week?

February 7th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Ciarán has posted the contents of an email he recieved from Microsoft which gives details of their distribution of the free Vista CD as promised to attendees of the Vista launch in Croke Park.
Hi,
Thank you for taking the time to join us at the launch event of Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server [...]

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Tags: Microsoft · Software · Technology

When is my Vista CD arriving from the Getready.ie seminar at Croke Park?

February 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is the question of the month for February! I attended the Microsoft Vista Launch in Croke Park in November, but I haven’t heard even a cabbage about when MS will be providing me with my free copy of their much antisipated operating system.
One of the attractions of attending the seminar was the [...]

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Tags: Microsoft · Personal · Software · Technology

Testing out some different browsers

January 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments

This week I’m going to be testing out some releavantly unknown browsers. AOL Explorer, Maxthon and Flock are all getting a spin while I leave Opera and Firefox in the garage.
I have been becoming increasingly frustrated with Firefox in recent weeks. It is getting slower, taking up more and more resources, crashing and is just [...]

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Tags: Browsers · Firefox · Microsoft · Uncategorized · Web Development

Microsoft Vista Launch in Croke Park

December 5th, 2006 · 57 Comments

Tomorrow is the launch day for Microsoft’s latest spawn Vista. It’s rumoured to be a big chunky beast which needs a billion megs of RAM, a pentium Pi*infinty processor and, finally, 3 hampsters running around a wheel are required to cool the processor.
To be honest i’m not 100% certain on the spec….
The big question is..Can [...]

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Tags: Microsoft · Software · Technology

My MCSA course starts on Monday, Horrah!

November 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

And to help me thru the difficult times I have setup an MCSA Blog.
The course starts on Monday the 27th of November and is costing an amazing 1,740euro! That figure is after a 70% reduction on the original fee of 5,800euro courtesy of a grant from FAS. That is a ridicuolous amount of cash for [...]

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Tags: Microsoft · Personal · Technology · Wordpress & Blogs

MS to support Sitemaps

November 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Yesterday it was reported on the Live Search Engine Blog that Microsoft were preparing themselves to recoginise sitemaps in their algorthim.
“Today, we are excited to announce that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol.  The goal of this effort is to improve search results for customers around the world.  [...]

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Tags: Google · Microsoft · Online Advertising & Marketing · SEO · Web Development