If you are a Bing cashback customer, you should get hurry to get your cashback redeemed because the program will be discontinued after July 30, 2010, according to Microsoft Bing cashback team: According to the letter, Bing cashback Team is working on a new program to replace the current cashback program. I am wondering what it is.
Yearly Archives: 2010
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If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed on a 64-bit OS and are planning to upgrade your Microsoft Office to the latest Office 2010, then be cautious: the upgrade will cause your Visual Studio 2008 web designer to hang and you will have to manually kill devenv.exe process from Task Manager. The root cause of the problem is that Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 share a 32-bit component: MSXML5. The upgrade process (manual uninstall […]
I bet every Outlook user knows how to create rules in Outlook to help organize email, and Outlook 2010 extended this feature by adding a new feature called “Quick Steps” to help user organize email even better and faster. The Quick Steps feature allows user to predefine a series of actions that user would like to performs on an email. For example, if you receive a request from a customer and the request requires your […]
Good news for Microsoft Office Live Workspace users! Microsoft Office Live Workspace account will be upgraded to Windows Live SkyDrive very soon, which means it will become a part of Windows Live SkyDrive and as a result user’s space will be increased to 25GB SkyDrive from the current 5GB Workspace. The upgrade will be automatic and all your Workspace files will be moved to your SkyDrive automatically. The upgrade plan consists of two phases, during […]
IE 9 Platform Preview is currently not compatible with Windows Live Calendar. Here is a calendar correctly displayed in IE 8: But in IE 9 Preview (version 1.9.7745.6019), it becomes this: As you can see, all events are missing. I submitted a bug on Microsoft Connect regarding this issue, and hopefully it will be fixed in the next release.
Ubuntu announced the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support), code named Lucid Lynx. I installed the RC version and am still trying to get used to the new default theme: Ambiance, in which the window’s minimize, maximize and close buttons are located at the left upper corner of the window, like in Mac OS. Here is a list of new features included in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Candidate: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004overview#GNOME The final release […]
There are 11 ways to tell if your web host sucks. Gerald Webber pointed out 10 ways, and Matt Mullenweg at WordPress pointed out another one. You should read them to see if it is time for you to change your web host.
If you installed Microsoft Office 2010 Beta as I did, you will find that it does not integrate well with Communicator 2007 R2 and the Live Meeting Add-in does not work either. To fix those problems, you need the following two updates: 1. Office 2010 Beta Integration with Communicator R2 & the Live Meeting Add-In 2. January 2010 Updates for Communicator 2007 R2 and OCS 2007 R2 Once you have the above two updates installed, […]
I hope someone can help me get this Windows Update problem in Vista fixed: Error(s) found: Code 80072EFD. I have tried this Microsoft Help & How-to (Windows Update error 80072efd), and also tried all methods in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article, and neither helped. The interesting thing is that Microsoft Update works perfectly. My computer is running Vista 64-bit version and is on a domain, and I am thinking maybe something wrong with the […]
I don’t understand why it is so hard to delete a printer in Vista. Start->Control Panel->Hardware and Sound->Printers, then right-click the printer that needs to be deleted, and choose “Delete”. Nothing happens except the printers shows “Deleting”, no error message, printer icon still there. I thought maybe I need to run as administrator, so I right-clicked the printer icon, and choose “Run as administrator”->”Delete”, still no luck. Finally, I had to do these to get […]