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I have written simple documents in libreoffice, saved them in docx format, and then loaded them in office 2010. The result was readable and even usable, but look completely alien to what I had on typed up under librewrite [...] it would have been rejected for poor formating.

Cannot stress this enough. We're savvy people, but not immune to conversion issues between the two. When are they the worst? When sending out a resume that we cannot preview in the real Office. Why? Office requires Windows, or a Windows-only viewer*. You definitely won't lose your current job over a misformatted word file, but when looking for one, some interviews will not happen due to the glitches that were invisible to us.

Some slashdotters on principle DO NOT touch Windows. Others have only a Mac* and/or do not pirate software. You'd need Wine and a copy of office ANYWAY. What would then be the point of using Libreoffice if you're cross-editing on the same PC?

The littlest cross-edit can trigger that hidden "alien" look in real Office, and when I used to be out of a job, my weekly revisions would have become someone's pain to preview, especially with several flavors of the resume I maintained.

* MS lacks Mac viewers and shows just a lowsy link to a 3rd party utility site for those who can't pay for the real thing.

Microsoft IS a media distribution company. One of the largest in the world in fact. The primary Television app in the world right now is Media room: http://www.microsoft.com/mediaroom/you/
AT&T Uverse uses it, more and more cable providers are using it. Set-top boxes all over use it and they are starting to build the software into TVs. It may very well be that Microsoft doesn't need to worry about the PS4 at all, because if the XB1 hooks directly up to your cable provider and can stream all the movies/shows/games without ever having to go to the store they could easily win the console war based on ease of use.

As of 2013, the user can attach arbitrary tags to a file and search by tag as well as filename (e.g. "important"). Turns out MS introduced file "comments" with Win XP, although searching by comment was awkward. Vista improved upon it, and of course Win 7 inherited it from Vista.

As of 2013, the user can attach arbitrary tags to a file and search by tag as well as filename (e.g. "important"). Turns out MS introduced file "comments" with Win XP, although searching by comment was awkward. Vista improved upon it, and of course Win 7 inherited it from Vista.

How do you do something as basic as copy a file securely to another computer? I use scp on Linux.

On Windows it's much simpler. You connect using RDP and then use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. The RDP connection itself is encrypted.

I wouldn't call windows networking or its installation of all the domain controllers and crap needed to get it working "much simpler". Remember, RDP is a proprietary protocol, so if your environment includes linux servers and windows desktops, as many do, you will still be using scp because it's much simpler. You'll be using samba and nfs shares to keep the non-techies in finance and billing happy.

Sure you can. Heck, if you have the right version of Windows, you can even eschew the GUI entirely and go straight to the command line. Or, if you're looking for a lightweight DE, you could opt for the Minimal Server Interface.

Granted, it's not quite fvwm, and it's certainly not available on consumer-grade Windows, but it's out there if you really want it and are willing to fork out the money for it.

82 results fo Social Media Marketing at Microsoft jobs

https://www.linkedin.com/job/q-social-media-marketing-c-microsoft-jobs

Social advertising has become a staple of the media mix as marketers look to leverage their campaigns to drive valuable word of mouth and influence. Microsoft Advertising has helped some of the world’s biggest brands tell their stories

http://advertising.microsoft.com/en-us/social-media

Case Study: How Does Microsoft Do Social Media Marketing?

http://socialmediatoday.com/index.php?q=SMC/200414

Starbucks, Microsoft are mighty in social-media marketing

And let’s not forget: Social media are free to use. That saves Microsoft some money in getting out its targeted marketing messages. Though the social-engagement report found a correlation between social marketing and a company’s financial performance, it was not definitively a causal relationship.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2009/10/12/starbucks-microsoft-mighty-in-social-media-marketing/

Communication –Blogs, discussions groups, and Twitter were used to provide continuing updates to the company’s followers during the development process for Windows 7. By providing frequent updates, Microsoft was able to build hype for Windows 7 among technology innovators. By increasing excitement of the innovators segment, Microsoft was able to encourage this segment act as brand ambassadors, willing to use their own social networks to pitch Windows 7 to early adopters.

http://suite101.com/article/social-media-marketing-strategies-a220285

No. Windows handles DST rules in the registry, so it's perfectly capable of date-dependent DST rule handling. The article discusses those recommendations as a way to avoid problems caused by issues with Outlook and Exchange 2003

I refer you to KB912475 - Australian daylight saving time 2006 update for environments that do not use Exchange Server has now expired, where it states:

An automatic update will be released after the end of the 2006 daylight saving time transition. This update will reset the affected time zones back to their regular end date. Customers who have Automatic Updates enabled do not have to take any additional action.

Alternatively, customers can manually remove the KB 912475 update at this point. Manually removing the KB 912475 update will also reset the affected time zones back to their regular end date. Customers who do not have automatic updates enabled and who installed the KB 912475 update must manually remove this update.

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It appears that date ranges for time zone rules might have been fixed in Vista onwards as the product is not listed.

TImezones is possibly an issue that those not planning to migrate from Windows XP may not have considered.

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How do you do something as basic as copy a file securely to another computer? I use scp on Linux.

On Windows it's much simpler. You connect using RDP and then use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. The RDP connection itself is encrypted.

Why doesn't java use the operating system to provide that information in the first place? At least on operating systems that provide that sort of information, which isn't just "linux" but pretty much all unices.

The problem is Windows. My understanding is that Windows cannot handle date dependant daylight savings rules. For example in 2006, Daylight Savings was extended for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and then reverted to the normal rules in 2006. The solution at the time was to patch Windows prior to the Olympics and then patch again at some point in the future.

KB909915 about the change includes these gems of advice:

• - Do not create future appointments in the overlap period in all successive years, until the operating system is back to the regular time zone.
• - As soon as possible after the overlap period ends, change the operating system back to the correct time zone for your location.

...one roll of tin foil. Folding instructions available at http://support.microsoft.com/omgstoplookingatme/

I'm probably going to sound like a shill but I'm not. I've been in the Microsoft World my entire life. They have a lot of tools (in a lot of cases free) to help people learn it's just that you have to find them.

go to http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/

To learn about not only classes and books to get certified but also free videos on what the exams use.

And the FREE tools. Some are time limited from 90 or 180 days. You can get free copies of Hyper-V ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/04/05/getting-started-with-hyper-v-server-2012-hyperv-virtualization-itpro.aspx#.UbH21efI58E ) , Free Copies of Windows 8 (90 days), Server 2012 (180 days http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/evaluate/trial-software.aspx ), Free copies of SQL Server 2012 ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx ), and so on. All you need to do is provide a machine to run them on. I have the free Hyper-V running free copies of windows 8, server 2012, and Sql server for my learning environment. Sure they are timed and you have to start over every so often but who cares it just gets easer sinc eyou know what you are doign the secord/thrid time around or you can also use the free virtual labs at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/virtuallabs

Other resoruces Microsoft DreamSpark if you want to go that route https://www.dreamspark.com/

Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/

Microsoft Virtual Academy https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/

Microsoft Springboard series that covers new topics for ITs. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/springboard

If you can go the Hypter-V route microsoft will soemtimes have preloaded virtual machines that have everything configured and ready to learn off of. can't find my links for the ones in the past I've used but once you keep up to date with the other resources you see.

I'm probably going to sound like a shill but I'm not. I've been in the Microsoft World my entire life. They have a lot of tools (in a lot of cases free) to help people learn it's just that you have to find them.

go to http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/

To learn about not only classes and books to get certified but also free videos on what the exams use.

And the FREE tools. Some are time limited from 90 or 180 days. You can get free copies of Hyper-V ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/04/05/getting-started-with-hyper-v-server-2012-hyperv-virtualization-itpro.aspx#.UbH21efI58E ) , Free Copies of Windows 8 (90 days), Server 2012 (180 days http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/evaluate/trial-software.aspx ), Free copies of SQL Server 2012 ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx ), and so on. All you need to do is provide a machine to run them on. I have the free Hyper-V running free copies of windows 8, server 2012, and Sql server for my learning environment. Sure they are timed and you have to start over every so often but who cares it just gets easer sinc eyou know what you are doign the secord/thrid time around or you can also use the free virtual labs at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/virtuallabs

Other resoruces Microsoft DreamSpark if you want to go that route https://www.dreamspark.com/

Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/

Microsoft Virtual Academy https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/

Microsoft Springboard series that covers new topics for ITs. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/springboard

If you can go the Hypter-V route microsoft will soemtimes have preloaded virtual machines that have everything configured and ready to learn off of. can't find my links for the ones in the past I've used but once you keep up to date with the other resources you see.

I'm probably going to sound like a shill but I'm not. I've been in the Microsoft World my entire life. They have a lot of tools (in a lot of cases free) to help people learn it's just that you have to find them.

go to http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/

To learn about not only classes and books to get certified but also free videos on what the exams use.

And the FREE tools. Some are time limited from 90 or 180 days. You can get free copies of Hyper-V ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/04/05/getting-started-with-hyper-v-server-2012-hyperv-virtualization-itpro.aspx#.UbH21efI58E ) , Free Copies of Windows 8 (90 days), Server 2012 (180 days http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/evaluate/trial-software.aspx ), Free copies of SQL Server 2012 ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx ), and so on. All you need to do is provide a machine to run them on. I have the free Hyper-V running free copies of windows 8, server 2012, and Sql server for my learning environment. Sure they are timed and you have to start over every so often but who cares it just gets easer sinc eyou know what you are doign the secord/thrid time around or you can also use the free virtual labs at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/virtuallabs

Other resoruces Microsoft DreamSpark if you want to go that route https://www.dreamspark.com/

Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/

Microsoft Virtual Academy https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/

Microsoft Springboard series that covers new topics for ITs. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/springboard

If you can go the Hypter-V route microsoft will soemtimes have preloaded virtual machines that have everything configured and ready to learn off of. can't find my links for the ones in the past I've used but once you keep up to date with the other resources you see.

I'm probably going to sound like a shill but I'm not. I've been in the Microsoft World my entire life. They have a lot of tools (in a lot of cases free) to help people learn it's just that you have to find them.

go to http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/

To learn about not only classes and books to get certified but also free videos on what the exams use.

And the FREE tools. Some are time limited from 90 or 180 days. You can get free copies of Hyper-V ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/04/05/getting-started-with-hyper-v-server-2012-hyperv-virtualization-itpro.aspx#.UbH21efI58E ) , Free Copies of Windows 8 (90 days), Server 2012 (180 days http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/evaluate/trial-software.aspx ), Free copies of SQL Server 2012 ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx ), and so on. All you need to do is provide a machine to run them on. I have the free Hyper-V running free copies of windows 8, server 2012, and Sql server for my learning environment. Sure they are timed and you have to start over every so often but who cares it just gets easer sinc eyou know what you are doign the secord/thrid time around or you can also use the free virtual labs at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/virtuallabs

Other resoruces Microsoft DreamSpark if you want to go that route https://www.dreamspark.com/

Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/

Microsoft Virtual Academy https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/

Microsoft Springboard series that covers new topics for ITs. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/springboard

If you can go the Hypter-V route microsoft will soemtimes have preloaded virtual machines that have everything configured and ready to learn off of. can't find my links for the ones in the past I've used but once you keep up to date with the other resources you see.

From the last quarter (Q3) - http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY13/Q3/default.aspx

"The Entertainment and Devices Division posted revenue of $2.53 billion, an increase of 56% from the prior year period. Adjusting for the recognition of revenue related to the Video Game Deferral, the division’s non-GAAP revenue increased 33% for the third quarter. Xbox LIVE now has over 46 million members worldwide, an 18% increase from the prior year period."

I call shenanigans.

Literally the first result on google - Free 180 day trial and exchange download

Please point to where I can download Windows 2003 Enterprise Server for free (and legal). There is no such site.

For 2003, you should have asked a decade ago... If you'll settle for Windows Server 2012 instead, I can certainly point you to the (non-existent) website:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/trial.aspx

Honestly, if you're looking to learn them, there are plenty of resources out there. If you want the cert, I would suggest a certification specific class, as the cert tests contain many, many things you will never ever do in real life.

You could get info here http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/learning-resources.aspx

or there are a few books.

  If you just want working knowledge, The issue is that its fairly common knowledge, at this point. You may want to look into a specialization around one of those programs? Maybe DR, cloud infrastructure? Administration is too commonplace to make a dent in your future, IMHO.

Not only that, but even at a fundamental level, the GP's statement is wrong. Let's see here...

- Server OS: Windows is what it is. It's not Linux, and it's certainly not free. Except it is. Granted, that's a stripped down version, but it's the exact same price as Linux. The non-stripped-down versions are far more capable, however. Most of the not-available-on-Linux stuff is caused by Microsoft, however, so perhaps it's not a fair fight to talk about Active Directory. Then again, it's not like anybody has bothered to make anything like it for Linux, much less for free. (No, LDAP doesn't count. It doesn't have half of AD's capabilities.)

- Database: SQL Server is on par with Oracle, feature-wise, and has been since v10.0 (SS 2008). This includes scalability. It's a class of database that leaves the FOSS databases behind by a wide margin. PostgreSQL is as close as it gets, and it has a ways to go before it's at this level. I'd put it on par with SQL Server 2000 (and that's generous). Maybe in a decade they can play with the big boys. As for "free"? No. Oracle is not free.

- Collaborative communications: Exchange. 'Nuff said. There are poor imitations for Linux. Hopefully they get the work they need to challenge Exchange. I'm honestly rooting for them because Exchange is a terrible beast. And expensive. It's a damned email server! (With a bunch of other crap rolled in...) Businesses just won't go without this. To be fair, if all you use is the email functionality, even sendmail is good enough. (Actually, probably better...)

- Task-specific servers: There's no generally available Linux equivalent for Dynamics (any flavor), BizTalk, or any of the other task servers. Those must be built as custom development.

- LOB apps: Apache is nice. Mono is nice. But for some inexplicable reason, nobody wants to make them play nice with each other. There once was a mod_mono that sorta worked. And then they stopped supporting it because... uhh... (*waves hands around*) blerghlerghflaglblah! And why can't a Mono binary be executed directly and load the Mono runtime silently? Hell, even PHP can do this! It's not friggin' rocket science! Meanwhile, Windows doesn't suffer from these problems because someone, somewhere made a decision and told the OS developers that sucking was not an option when it comes to memory-managed runtime integration. I don't care if it's Mono or Java or some other screwy runtime, but make it work as a first-class citizen in the OS.

Now if the GP would be so kind as to explain how any of these fall under the category of Linux doing it better...

It is available here

But seriously, Chrome did a LOT of stuff right.

But they did at least one thing horribly, horribly wrong, and have at the same time managed to popularize it amongst many other products. Firefox jumped on board a while ago to some extent, but this new UI looks like they've gone balls-to-the-wall to "COPY CHROME" mode (just look at their new "Firefox menu" icon. It's a damned copy-and-paste of Chromes! What the hell! I don't understand why, but today's user interface designers are like marketing consultants -- they're all in a perpetual race to mindlessly emulate whoever seems to be popular at the moment. Usability studies, what are those?)

Anyway, the horrible misfeature is dicking around with non-client window areas (cutely referred to now as "chrome" so that it sounds unimportant and worth messing around with). It used to be a huge faux-pas in a professional well-designed system to screw around with things like window borders, title bars, system menus, caption buttons, etc. In fact, you could usually tell when a program was complete crap because it tried to make some horrible non-square window with an all custom-drawn non-client area.

Microsoft's best practices for Windows applications dictated for the longest time that you shouldn't mess around with or try to change the non-client area because of the horrible mess of UI inconsistency, user confusion, future fragility, and others (they still do but now just say you should "avoid drawing" there). However, now even they are embracing this stupidity, for example in Visual Studio 2012. Specifically the window caption buttons are a bastardized custom-drawn version of the Windows 8 buttons. What this means is that on Windows 7, if I repeatedly click where the Minimize caption button (to minimize all of my maximized windows), depending on where I click it, I will click the Restore button on programs that use the "normal" Windows 7 non-client area.

I despise the Chrome user interface and if Firefox keeps drunkenly stumbling down that same back alley of UI design then I'll finally stop using the browser. Their plan to completely remove the Addon Bar is another sign they're really only interested in becoming Chromium. My bet is that inside 2 years they'll drop Gecko completely and just adopt WebKit.

I think you misunderstood the entirety of this discussion thread. You might want to go back and re-read it. However, on this one point:

I shall bow to your mastery the picosecond you post a piece working code showing how to "read the entire contents of Firefox's private memory" from an unprivileged user process launched after Firefox started and without using any Firefox vulnerabilities to do it.

Assuming Firefox is running with the user's standard permission level (which is the default), ReadProcessMemory will allow you access to it's memory space. And barring that, you can always use CreateRemoteThread.

Both of these assume the processes are on an equal security context footing. If one is elevated or across a session boundary, etc, then it becomes much more difficult (but not impossible).

I think you misunderstood the entirety of this discussion thread. You might want to go back and re-read it. However, on this one point:

I shall bow to your mastery the picosecond you post a piece working code showing how to "read the entire contents of Firefox's private memory" from an unprivileged user process launched after Firefox started and without using any Firefox vulnerabilities to do it.

Assuming Firefox is running with the user's standard permission level (which is the default), ReadProcessMemory will allow you access to it's memory space. And barring that, you can always use CreateRemoteThread.

Both of these assume the processes are on an equal security context footing. If one is elevated or across a session boundary, etc, then it becomes much more difficult (but not impossible).

They are binary, but at least they are documented: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313105(v=office.12).aspx

Have you tried disabling the file blocks first? At least Word for Mac 4.x and 5.x can be read this way.

For a supposedly smart guy, he seems a bit silly:

He could've just downloaded MS's Powerpoint 97 viewer

MS removed the PowerPoint 4.0/95 converters completely with Office 2007 for Windows and later, and disabled them by default in Office 2003 SP3. And the PowerPoint 4.0 converter (but not 95) was disabled by default instead of fixed with MS09-017.

On the Mac, they removed then even earlier, when they ported Office to Carbon.

IMO it would be a good idea for MS to package PP4X32 and PP7X32 from PowerPoint 2003 separately, along with a utility to call the converters of course.

MS removed the PowerPoint 4.0/95 converters completely with Office 2007 for Windows and later, and disabled them by default in Office 2003 SP3. And the PowerPoint 4.0 converter (but not 95) was disabled by default instead of fixed with MS09-017.

On the Mac, they removed then even earlier, when they ported Office to Carbon.

IMO it would be a good idea for MS to package PP4X32 and PP7X32 from PowerPoint 2003 separately, along with a utility to call the converters of course.

MS removed the PowerPoint 4.0/95 converters completely with Office 2007 for Windows and later, and disabled them by default in Office 2003 SP3. And the PowerPoint 4.0 converter (but not 95) was disabled by default instead of fixed with MS09-017.

On the Mac, they removed then even earlier, when they ported Office to Carbon.

IMO it would be a good idea for MS to package PP4X32 and PP7X32 from PowerPoint 2003 separately, along with a utility to call the converters of course.

If it is Word/Excel, try disabling the file blocks using the registry or in 2010 or later using the UI in the Trust Center.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849

Honestly the windows RT table works fine. I like having more inputs. The model they have has a laptop keyboard that attaches. With the two pieces together the table is like a touchscreen netbook.

Except that unlike my Dell netbook, a Windows RT tablet runs only applications from the Windows Store, and according to Windows 8 app certification requirements, Microsoft would not approve some of the applications that I use daily. Some of these violate sections 3.9 and 4.5 by their very nature.

If you have crappy wireless, you will hate it. The tablet needs to be online to get everything.

Despite having no wireless at all when I use my Dell netbook on the bus for up to an hour at a time, I manage to get stuff done because Xubuntu applications are more commonly designed for offline first.

The fact is that most people don't need any of the advanced features offered by Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. They don't know what a PivotTable is and they don't use the 500 statistical functions in Excel. They also don't need to buy Office to do this because they can use OpenOffice or LibreOffice or Google docs.

Most people who have only a casual need for an office suite have always relied on affordable alternatives like Microsoft Works. But that still leaves about 16-20% of the US work force who are statistically defined as clerical workers and those in other trades and professions who rely on Word, Excel and so on.

In a population of 333 million, that adds up to quite a significant number.

The geek is fixed-focused on the stand-alone office suite ---- which is all that FOSS has to offer. Microsoft tends to think in terms of integrated office systems. Microsoft Office 365 for Health Organizations

Also, the minimum requirements were 512 MB (home basic) or 1 GB (everything else). Windows 7 requires 1 GB.

Also, the minimum requirements were 512 MB (home basic) or 1 GB (everything else). Windows 7 requires 1 GB.

"A good example of this is the Surface. It's amazing to have almost a full fledged PC in a tablet form factor and lets you build some really cool applications that the previous Tablet PC form factor didn't address well. But I wouldn't use it to write anything longer than an SMS, tweet or quick email...it's just not built for huge gorilla hands. :-) On the other hand, it's great for watching movies, surfing the web, and other Millenial-approved social media tasks."

That's the biggest issue with the form factor in general. It's great for consuming - surfing the web (IE in modern/Metro mode is actually astoundingly decent!), watching video, listening to music... but as soon as you want to reply to a Slashdot post or write an e-mail, you'll be pulling your hair out in clumps.

I've actually just noticed that the Windows 8 keyboard (at least on my Atom based Win8 tablet) has problems with fast multitouch inputs, which makes it even worse... http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-tms/why-is-my-windows-8-touch-keyboard-adding-extra/f9d18350-a87a-425b-a34c-a2aaa5f9abaa

Windows 8 Pro has downgrade rights: http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/downgrade_rights.aspx#fbid=6SVqgYVXJik

About 70% of licneses sold are Windows 8 Pro.

On Windows alt-tabbing back INTO the game almost always forces a 1 or 2 second hiccup.

Cry me a river...

PS: That's by design, not because "Windows is crap". When you ALT-TAB a game in Windows it dumps all the graphics resources from the graphics RAM, leaving it free for other things that you might want to do. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb174714(v=vs.85).aspx

I know for sure Google, Fedora and Microsoft (I know... but it has perks for the club) have ambassador programs and will provide funding and raffle prizes that can be used for fundraising to keep the club going.

It may be my lack of Google skills, but I can't find any evidence of a Red Hat corporate presence in Ghana. (and both surprised and slightly disappointed to find very few pictures of Ghaneans wearing fedoras instead but I digress...)

I will bite on this.

Something I found in the past is, if there is no presence where you live, contact the company and create the presence there. They will often work with you for loads of promotion that will cost them almost nothing.

Ambassador Programs
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/proscho/programs/uscanada/ambassador/ (find your region)
http://www.microsoft.com/de-ch/students/en/getInTouch/MicrosoftOnCampus/Ambassadors/default.aspx#fbid=6Weg8o4CBmr
http://www.apple.com/education/campusreps/

Don't forget to contact other major distros and see if they have anything similar or would donate some shirts, dvds, usbs, keychains or ANYTHING to your group to help promote Linux.

Sign your team up for Dreamspark and get Microsoft OSs running as VMs on top of linux so you can know about the issues involved with running MS services in VMs. They also have something like "Microsoft Services for Unix." It's always good to know your "enemy."

Newer versions of desktop Windows you pedantic arse.

Microsoft is referring to Windows RT tablets as "PCs" on this page. This gives me a bad feeling about what Microsoft plans to do to versions of desktop Windows after 8.1.

An absolute necessity for performance reasons. They tried doing it in userspace in NT4 and it just couldn't keep up.

Actually NT4 was already the first version to move GDI into the kernel, because of (as you and others have already mentioned) the high cost of context switches and marshalling/unmarshalling in NT 3.5's microkernel-style display server architecture. See this TechNet article.

Microsoft provides a list of their bugs at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sitemap.aspx, but Wikipedia provides a better interface at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software_applications.

Not a silly light sensor.

That silly light sensor is connected to a box filled with highly complex AI developed by some of the brightest minds in software development, all bent to s single purpose: Killing people.

Oh sure, it's all virtual NOW, and all for fun NOW, but how long until someone at MRDS "borrows" some Bungie AI code and pastes the wrong bit?

Sure, we'll have a cadre of highly trained specialists with a long history of beating these bots, but they're all flabby and basement-tanned. They'll tire even faster than the batteries on the bots' Surface Pro-powered brains! Cancel your credit-card payments now, or we're all lost!

Actually, they have one.

https://connect.microsoft.com/

Doesn't everybody all use touchscreens? That's all we're using?

Remember these are the same super-geniuses that think you need a desktop interface and a mouse/monitor/keyboard to run a server. Now you'll need a touchscreen too.

Funny. On the Windows Server Platform page, I see info about headless servers...

Word 2003 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://www.proz.com/forum/office_applications/58778-word_crashes_while_saving_a_document_help.html
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/word-2003-freezes-and-crashes-try-save-file-t2502351.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2003-word/word-2003-hangs-when-saving-file/1d6be026-5086-4408-8b2a-3296f9f161eb

Word 2007 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/ms-word-2007-crashes-every-time-when-saving-help/0ecd87eb-3822-4bc1-bf36-cb1d2825d082?msgId=84934bdc-1347-4e57-8348-00a317af48fa
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/3d2a65b1-10b5-4f02-a12f-dfbe06233f87
http://www.ruthellison.com/2008/03/fixing-microsoft-word-2007-crashing-feature/

Word 2010 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-crashes-when-saving-docx/d4bb1c00-8b9a-4e50-ba84-ea74cc24b5f7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officesetupdeployprevious/thread/7c00370c-02d2-46e4-ad40-08c02dcf0f09/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-freezes-and-crashes-while-saving/91df4a3a-3e7f-45ef-90ca-b604c9644d86

Word 2003 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://www.proz.com/forum/office_applications/58778-word_crashes_while_saving_a_document_help.html
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/word-2003-freezes-and-crashes-try-save-file-t2502351.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2003-word/word-2003-hangs-when-saving-file/1d6be026-5086-4408-8b2a-3296f9f161eb

Word 2007 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/ms-word-2007-crashes-every-time-when-saving-help/0ecd87eb-3822-4bc1-bf36-cb1d2825d082?msgId=84934bdc-1347-4e57-8348-00a317af48fa
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/3d2a65b1-10b5-4f02-a12f-dfbe06233f87
http://www.ruthellison.com/2008/03/fixing-microsoft-word-2007-crashing-feature/

Word 2010 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-crashes-when-saving-docx/d4bb1c00-8b9a-4e50-ba84-ea74cc24b5f7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officesetupdeployprevious/thread/7c00370c-02d2-46e4-ad40-08c02dcf0f09/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-freezes-and-crashes-while-saving/91df4a3a-3e7f-45ef-90ca-b604c9644d86

Word 2003 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://www.proz.com/forum/office_applications/58778-word_crashes_while_saving_a_document_help.html
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/word-2003-freezes-and-crashes-try-save-file-t2502351.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2003-word/word-2003-hangs-when-saving-file/1d6be026-5086-4408-8b2a-3296f9f161eb

Word 2007 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/ms-word-2007-crashes-every-time-when-saving-help/0ecd87eb-3822-4bc1-bf36-cb1d2825d082?msgId=84934bdc-1347-4e57-8348-00a317af48fa
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/3d2a65b1-10b5-4f02-a12f-dfbe06233f87
http://www.ruthellison.com/2008/03/fixing-microsoft-word-2007-crashing-feature/

Word 2010 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-crashes-when-saving-docx/d4bb1c00-8b9a-4e50-ba84-ea74cc24b5f7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officesetupdeployprevious/thread/7c00370c-02d2-46e4-ad40-08c02dcf0f09/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-freezes-and-crashes-while-saving/91df4a3a-3e7f-45ef-90ca-b604c9644d86

Word 2003 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://www.proz.com/forum/office_applications/58778-word_crashes_while_saving_a_document_help.html
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/word-2003-freezes-and-crashes-try-save-file-t2502351.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2003-word/word-2003-hangs-when-saving-file/1d6be026-5086-4408-8b2a-3296f9f161eb

Word 2007 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/ms-word-2007-crashes-every-time-when-saving-help/0ecd87eb-3822-4bc1-bf36-cb1d2825d082?msgId=84934bdc-1347-4e57-8348-00a317af48fa
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/3d2a65b1-10b5-4f02-a12f-dfbe06233f87
http://www.ruthellison.com/2008/03/fixing-microsoft-word-2007-crashing-feature/

Word 2010 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-crashes-when-saving-docx/d4bb1c00-8b9a-4e50-ba84-ea74cc24b5f7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officesetupdeployprevious/thread/7c00370c-02d2-46e4-ad40-08c02dcf0f09/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-freezes-and-crashes-while-saving/91df4a3a-3e7f-45ef-90ca-b604c9644d86

Word 2003 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://www.proz.com/forum/office_applications/58778-word_crashes_while_saving_a_document_help.html
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/word-2003-freezes-and-crashes-try-save-file-t2502351.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2003-word/word-2003-hangs-when-saving-file/1d6be026-5086-4408-8b2a-3296f9f161eb

Word 2007 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/ms-word-2007-crashes-every-time-when-saving-help/0ecd87eb-3822-4bc1-bf36-cb1d2825d082?msgId=84934bdc-1347-4e57-8348-00a317af48fa
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/3d2a65b1-10b5-4f02-a12f-dfbe06233f87
http://www.ruthellison.com/2008/03/fixing-microsoft-word-2007-crashing-feature/

Word 2010 crashes or hangs while saving:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-crashes-when-saving-docx/d4bb1c00-8b9a-4e50-ba84-ea74cc24b5f7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officesetupdeployprevious/thread/7c00370c-02d2-46e4-ad40-08c02dcf0f09/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-freezes-and-crashes-while-saving/91df4a3a-3e7f-45ef-90ca-b604c9644d86