* Posts by undeadMonkey93

21 publicly visible posts • joined 31 May 2012

Outlook 2013 spurns your old Word and Excel documents

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Apologies for double posting, but just read the announcement, looks like it's for Import / Export (such as saving messages as Word docs).

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Outlook 2013 is still a standalone program*. I presume they're talking about Document Previews, where some attachments can be previewed inside the message pane of Outlook instead of launching them in the appropriate program (Word, Paint, etc.)

* There's also a web based Outlook (Outlook.com) more akin to Hotmail.

Phone-hack saga: Police cuff man in southwest London

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Damn! Apparently Piers Morgan is 47.

So close!

Is it all over for UK.gov's G-Cloud 3.0? A footnote in history awaits

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Just looked at the product store.

Frames and table-based layout galore! It's like it's 2003 all over again!

Nowhere to hide for Google users as Play is given Plus treatment

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Meh

Youtube are pestering users to use their real name instead of screenname in certain areas.

You can still tell them to sod off for a number of reasons, such as your channel representing an organisation or being known primarily by your screenname (your tobuscuses, pewdiepies - shudder - and such). There is an option to decline but I'm not sure how long this'll remain a choice given this news.

Microsoft shoots Windows Live Messenger, brings in Skype IM

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Re: MSN and Skype privacy

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA392/where-can-i-find-my-conversation-history-in-skype-for-windows-desktop-and-what-can-i-do-with-it#8

This took me all of 30 seconds to find.

Windows 8: Is Microsoft's new OS too odd to handle?

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Re: I'll pass on this one

"My stonking great finers really don't work all that well with tough interfaces."

I'm honestly not sure whether tough interfaces was intentional or a wonderful Freudian slip.

Microsoft job ad advises 'Xbox 720' out by Feb 2014

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FAIL

"Analysts and other observers have been forecasting a 2013/2104 launch for both the next Xbox and the next-generation PlayStation."

Covering all bases then?

Microsoft and NYPD install big data crime-fighting system

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Meh

Re: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

In theory, yes. But most of the public are happy consuming lowest common denominator media like the X Factor and reading Hello! magazine instead watching the state and following current affairs.

Raspberry Pi served with Ice Cream Sandwich

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Re: This is the reason why I bought my R-PI!

The Joke

Your Head

Microsoft: MED-V won't help you escape WinXP end-of-life

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"However, MED-V won't be updated to work on Windows 8..."

No bother, doubtful many enterprise's machines will be updated to run Windows 8.

Romney promises to announce VP choice via mobile app

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Can't wait to see who's running alongside Mitt to be the next Prime Minister of Amercia!

Beeb stuffs $21tn into Olympic-sized swimming pools

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How many more swimming pools if we include the money BBC stars (were supposedly forced to) "squirrell away" in self owned companies to avoid tax?

RIM: What's all the 'bleeding' fuss about BlackBerry developers?

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Re: YOu lost me here...

I'm presuming those extra 20 billion are from pre 2009. Simple.

Mexican election loser and Anonymous say vote was 'fraudulent'

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Re: Or,................

Thanks for that valuable expert analysis Ellipsis Man!

Google ditches the bits in the bottom of the box

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Re: Symbian’s shame

Some sort of post-modern poetry I think.

Fujitsu phones to guide the blind through homes

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Can this tech be applied to anonymous El Reg commenters too?

"You are veering madly off topic. It is in the direction of six o'clock, three miles away"

Windows 8 Release Preview open for download

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Re: What has happened to Microsoft?

"Remember how explorer closes one folder when you look at another so you can't do side by side comparisons on folders?"

CTRL + Click on a folder to open it in a new explorer window.

Steve Jobs speaks from beyond grave: 'iPads are toys'

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Re: "world's biggest recycler of Bill Gates' best ideas"

At least she's gone a whole Apple related article without calling them Foxconn-rebranders.