The big news in the domaining market is the recent acquisition made by Microsoft of the office.com domain. This domain is just made for Microsoft and is ideal for marketing its suite of office productivity tools. Just to give you an idea of the value that buyers put on domains, toys.com was recently bought for $5.1 million by Toys 'R' Us. [...more]
U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis has ordered Microsoft to pay nearly $300M in damages and interest to Canadian company i4i. i4i has a patent for a document system that relies on XML (extensible markup language) custom formatting and Microsoft infringed it when they started selling versions of Word from 2007 onwards. Microsoft famously introduced the XML file formats in Word 2007 (the 'x' in the .docx file extension stands for XML). [...more]
I feel like Willy Wonka when he got his golden ticket. Finally, I received my invitation from Microsoft Connect to download the Office 2010 Technical Preview. Previously I'd been using the leaked version that my grandmother had downloaded from some torrent site or other, but now I can use a legitimate copy. The big bonus of receiving the official invite is that it gives you access to documentation that explains what's new in Office 2010. [...more]
The instructions for using the Microsoft File Transfer Manager are pretty well hidden, so here is a tutorial to help you learn how to use it. When I used the Transfer Manager it sped up the download considerably, so I think it's well worth the time to become familiar with it. First things first, let's install it. [...more]
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