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Bill for Bill: Money Wasted

Send Microsoft A Bill For Optimizing Your Website For The Internet Explorer. BillForBill is a new and fun way to display the amount of money that was wasted worldwide to optimize any website for the Internet Explorer browser by Microsoft. All you have to do is connect your Twitter or Facebook account and enter the […]

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Browser Visualization Video

Google Analytics has a nice little visualization tool. With this, you can create good looking graphs and animations for various kinds of data. I have created a small sequence to show you the change of browser types that visitors of my blog have. The data is from 2009 (January through December) and shows that my […]

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Microsoft and Open Source

Microsoft Switzerland invited to a short presentation and discussion round with Hank Janssen from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) in Redmond. He talked a little bit about their infrastructure (which is impressive and awesome by the way), projects Microsoft has contributed to and why they do it. I made a few notes and […]

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Fairness in Tech

What are you doing on October 22nd 2009? Why not camp out in front of an Interdiscount, Media Markt or any other tech store. Why? Well, because a new revolution will be released on that day. Yes! Microsoft’s newest operating System, Windows 7, will be released. What? You think camping in front of a store […]

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Bing Blog: How to save traffic costs

Looks like Microsoft does not have the money to host their images on their own servers. Instead they use PhotoBucket. And to bad they moved or removed their header image. Source: Live Search Webmaster Center Blog (shouldn’t that be the “Bing Webmaster Center Blog“?)

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