Posts Tagged: Microsoft

Computing — 2 Comments
30
Dec 08

Enabling Tags in Windows Live Writer for WordPress

I started using Windows Live Writer about 6 months ago as it was a surprisingly useful tool coming from the most surprising source, Microsoft. It actually worked, see. One feature that I was missing though, and made me stop using it was the fact that I could not get it to tag posts. I love tagging, well, I fell in love with tagging and I was willing to bear the awful editors WordPress provides in order to just do that, tag. So today I updated the version of Live Writer to the latest release candidate. Never mind the totally awful classic Microsoft uber uber bloatware (to download one update you end up with almost 200MB of unrelated crap) – the fail machine cannot change, can it? – and voila, I have the new Live Writer. And it still cannot tag the way WordPress does it. Its tagging is meant to correlate your posts to sites like Delicious and Technorati. Not what I wanted. Luckily I found this awesome tool that turns on a setting in Live Writer to do that. Run the downloadable program, restart Live Writer and press F2 to show an additional form, that includes tags for your own blog. Yay!

This is how it looks in the end. Yay useful. Thanks Microsoft!

tags-enabled

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Computing — 7 Comments
14
Sep 08

Hey Microsoft: Outlook Web Access does not work that well with IE 8

An add on to my angry post about Internet Explorer 8; having accessed my company’s Outlook Web Access application – the webmail side of the Exchange server we use (Exchange 2003), I was unable to forward an email using IE 8.

Google at least claims to have Chrome tested before unleashing it unto the world. Microsoft apparently does not even test its own products. Trashing mercilessly. I know.

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Computing / General / Web Development — 1 Comment
6
Sep 08

Internet Explorer 8: Stay away, don’t believe the hype, aaaaaaaaaaargh!

I was stupid enough to believe all the offhand mentions like on the Wall Street Journal that said that Internet Explorer 8′s beta actually worked nice. So much so that having not been burnt by installing Chrome, I felt bandwagonesque enough to also install IE 8.

First, IE 8 *overwrites* and *replaces* IE 7. That is as uncool and unacceptable as it gets. You (Microsoft) are replacing a WORKING, STABLE program with a BETA in an all-or-nothing move without too much warning. That’s a load of crap. Suppose you have so much faith in it that you are fine with that.

Next, Security so high it is outrageously stupid. File again, under ‘unacceptable’: on my Windows XP machine, IE 8′s default setting disable JavaScript *ENTIRELY*. I repeat, no f-n JavaScript. Never mind Flash, but you know, it 2008. JavaScript is an unproven, new tool, yup yup. Fail fail fail. Anyway, they tell you that your add-ons are disabled. You click the link to the add-on manager and lo-and-behold, ALL OF THEM APPEAR ENABLED. WTF?

add-ons

So how do you solve this? According to Microsoft’s support, it is as simple as changing an f-n REGISTRY KEY?! As user friendly as entering a class id to the registry. ARE THEY NUTS? DO THEY EVEN CARE?! Is it possible to goof off even more?! A beta means ‘on the verge of release’. This is plain dreadful, Microsoft. Look in the f-n mirror and like, think again. I am so selling my miserable 10 stocks of yours. You suck beyond belief. Really. Done. Indefensible.

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