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Live Search completely broken? [Live Search completely broken?]

Escamillo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:23:24 GMT

Has anyone else foun that Live Search has been completely broken for the last few days? Frequently the search resuts are just a blank page; or at times only found images are shown,; or zero results are found (wrongly) so a list of suggested searches is given, and clicking any one of these just delivers a blank page?

This has happened for me for days now, with IE. Firefox, and Chrome, using live.com, MSN toolbar, search box of the various browsers, etc.

For example,
I just now did a search for 'venus williams' (unquoted) and get a blank page all the time.
If I search for "venus williams" I get two 'news' links but nothing else.

The problem seems to only affect "Web" search. News, Images, and Video search appear to work fine.

The problem doesn't appear all the time. I just now did one more web search for "venus williams" and got actual results.

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Ice Cube dumps Flash for Silverlight - "Flash is outta here!!" [Ice Cube dumps Flash for Silverlight - "Flash is outta here!!"]

Escamillo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:38:24 GMT

I just found this at channel 10.

http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/40s-and-silverlight-make-the-world-goround/

"Taking the win for the last thing I expected to see in my Inbox this morning, here is a video of Ice Cube talking about dropping Flash for Silverlight in his UVNTV venture."

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ZuneOriginals web site doesn't support IE???? [ZuneOriginals web site doesn't support IE????]

Escamillo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:00:57 GMT

http://zuneoriginals.net is the site where you can order Zunes with customized artwork on the back. Can anyone get this site to work with IE7? Whenever I visit the site with IE7 I get a "Browser not supported; Use IE6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+". It's not a big deal to me since I can get the site to work with Firefox, but it's really weird that it woudln't work with IE7.

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Massachusetts blesses OOXML [Massachusetts blesses OOXML]

Escamillo — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:56:02 GMT

Massachusetts ETRM V4.0 recommends Open XML and ODF 1.1

With these revisions, Massachusetts will allow government use of six formats: ODF, OOXML, HTML, plain text, RTF, and PDF.

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I fear for Mary Jo Foley's life [I fear for Mary Jo Foley's life]

Escamillo — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:40:37 GMT

Leopard looks like ... Vista

Mary's really asking for it now. Really tempting fate. :P
Digg is totally up in arms too, with over 1000 digs and over 500 comments of outrage. :@

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Origami Experience - UMPCs get the Vista treatment [Origami Experience - UMPCs get the Vista treatment]

Escamillo — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:04:54 GMT

These UMPC Vista screen shots look great!
http://origamiproject.com/blogs/team_blog/archive/2007/01/09/15189.aspx

And there's a video demo at on10.net:
http://www.on10.net/Blogs/jesse/the-umpc-media-experience-takes-one-fat-leap-forward/

Maybe UMPCs will live after all (still need to make cheaper models and extend battery life).

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IE7 inconsistently showing favicons? [IE7 inconsistently showing favicons?]

Escamillo — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:31:37 GMT

I recently upgraded to IE7 on my main PC, and am seeing that IE7 isn't showing favicons in the address bar or tabs with any consistency. Sometimes they're shown, sometimes not, depending on the site.

I've also observed that if I navigate to a site for which the favicon isn't shown, then quit and restart IE7, and navigate to the site again, then the favicon *is* shown.

Does anyone have an idea of what the problem is and how it can be fixed?

(BTW, I had IE7 beta 2, beta 3, RC1, and RTM on my test PC, and had no problems regarding favicons. This is just happenning on my main PC.)

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.NET Framework 3.0 RC1 is now available [.NET Framework 3.0 RC1 is now available]

Escamillo — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:34:40 GMT

Here is the framework:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=19E21845-F5E3-4387-95FF-66788825C1AF&displaylang=en

Here is the SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=117ECFD3-98AD-4D67-87D2-E95A8407FA86&displaylang=en

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Microsoft announces Windows Principles - Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition [Microsoft announces Windows Principles - Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition]

Escamillo — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:34:25 GMT

There've been some news stories on this (some of which suck, because they lead one to believe this only has to do with search engines). Here is the official Microsoft statement:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/WindowsPrinciples.mspx

Now, maybe the "MSFT = evil" peanut gallery will cease their prattle. ;)

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Microsoft's iPod killer to provide free versions of all your iTunes tracks [Microsoft's iPod killer to provide free versions of all your iTunes tracks]

Escamillo — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:15:36 GMT

Microsoft's iPod killer to provide free versions of all your iTunes tracks (digg.com)

digg.com (via engadget.com) wrote:
To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They'll scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account. Microsoft will still have to pay the rights-holders for the songs, but they believe it'll be worth it to converts.

Here's the actual engadget article, which has more details on the player (none of these details has been officially announced yet):
Microsoft planning WiFi-enabled portable media player, working on MVNO for next year (engadget.com)

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eBay Bans Sellers from Using Google Checkout [eBay Bans Sellers from Using Google Checkout]

Escamillo — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:08:33 GMT

http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i06/s02

auctionbytes.com wrote:
eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay.

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Microsoft gets exclusive Formula 1 contract [Microsoft gets exclusive Formula 1 contract]

Escamillo — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:28:03 GMT

Bridgestone, Microsoft Get Exclusive F1 Contracts

speedtv.com wrote:
Bridgestone and Microsoft have been granted exclusive contracts to be the sole suppliers, of tires and ECUs respectively, of Formula 1 beginning in 2008.

The announcement was made following this Wednesday's meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris.

The move to a single tire supplier and standardized ECUs (Electronic Control Units, responsible for a car's engine management) is part of the FIA's radical cost-saving package announced earlier this year for introduction in '08. Both Bridgestone and Microsoft will supply F1 through 2010.

Anyone know anything about Microsoft's ECUs? I wonder what OS they run, XP Embedded or WinCE?

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Cool Microsoft WordCup Soccer Scoreboard app [Cool Microsoft WordCup Soccer Scoreboard app]

Escamillo — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:07:16 GMT

Have you guys seen this World Cup Scoreboard app from Microsoft?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=df6a6e6e-21af-4786-ad1d-a38e8bfda82f&displaylang=en

We're coming to the end of the World Cup, but even so, you should download this app just for the coolness of it! It's a transparent real-time (and post-time) scoreboard applet; very cool indeed! :D

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Dropping GNU/Linux helps restore Corel profitability [Dropping GNU/Linux helps restore Corel profitability]

Escamillo — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:33:26 GMT

http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/29/2238229&from=rss

newsforge wrote:
After six years of financial difficulties and reorganizations, Corel Corp. finally seems on track with promising first and second quarters in 2006 and a return to public trading. One of the first steps in this turnabout, according to Graham Brown, executive vice president of software development at Corel, was the jettisoning the company's products for GNU/Linux, WordPerfect for Linux and Corel Linux.
...
"At this time, we aren't seeing sufficient demand from our core consumer and small business customers to warrant the development of our products on Linux."

What a shock. Attempting to sell softare like WordPerfect to a userbase to which the idea of paying for software is anathema, and a userbase that demands open source products even if it's inferior to closed source counterparts, didn't help Corel's bottom line? Shocking, I tell you! ;)

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PCMag.com gives WMP11 high praise [PCMag.com gives WMP11 high praise]

Escamillo — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:22:28 GMT

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1961531,00.asp

"Windows Media Player 11 - it's a lot more fun to use than any other media player, and just as powerful."

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Why Live.com is slow and how it is going to be sped up [Why Live.com is slow and how it is going to be sped up]

Escamillo — Tue, 02 May 2006 22:58:44 GMT

In my thread on Live.com crashing IE6, some wanted to talk about the slowness of Live.com. I didn't want that thread derailed, but I do want to alert you to what Live.com devs themselves have to say about it. I refer you to the 4/25/2006 blog entry by Scott Isaacs, Live.com architect, which talks about the reasons for the slowness and the steps that will be taken to speed it up:
What we learned building Live.com (or why are we slow)?

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Live.com hanging IE6 [Live.com hanging IE6]

Escamillo — Tue, 02 May 2006 21:40:14 GMT

Today I tried to go to http://www.live.com on two different computers with IE6 (with the latest updates), and IE6 constantly hangs. The status bar indicates the it's trying to download http://stc.live.com/live/themes/.../<something>.png, with around 35 items left to download, when the hang occurs. Both computers had no preset live.com settings (I deleted the cookies to make sure). The hang doesn't occur with IE7.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Edit: I think the <something>.png referred to above is http://stc.live.com/live/1.0.7.054/gadgets/Weather/images/90x70/34.png (for what it's worth :P).

Edit: I can load the above .png with no problem, so the problem isn't with that particular .png. ;)

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IE6 update crashes with embedded QuickTime movies [IE6 update crashes with embedded QuickTime movies]

Escamillo — Mon, 01 May 2006 15:13:41 GMT

OK, how does one report IE6 bugs?

As of the latest IE6 update, which includes the stupid Eolas-patent work-around, IE6 crashes on me whenever I encounter a page with an embedded QuickTime movie. Also, rather than getting the "Click this control to activate it" tooltip, I get an idiotic and very annoying "Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage" message box (which was the originally proposed work-around).

Example web page that causes the problem:
http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2005/10/macbu-movie-trailer.html

Obviously, the IE team didn't testing their work-around properly. They had this work-around in their labs for months, and didn't bother testing it for QuickTime movies? Come on, now.

Anyway, how do you report bugs? I sick of encountering this problem. :@ I've gone back to Opera for now.

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IE7 team being short-sighted when cutting bloat (Offline Favorites)?? [IE7 team being short-sighted when cutting bloat (Offline Favorites)??]

Escamillo — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:40:42 GMT

I was perusing the microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general discussion group and came across a thread entitled "Synchonize offline files", in which people complain about IE7 removing the ability to synchronize Favorites pages offline, as they used that functionality in previous IEs in order to browse sites cached offline when they don't have an internet connection (such as on a plane or whatever). The thread also quotes the IE7 beta2 release notes, which says, "Offline Favorites - Offline Favorites and Scheduled Offline Favorites have been removed from Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer supports RSS feeds which provides scheduled updates to web content and offline reading of this content. For more information on feed reading experience, read RSS Blog. "

I have a couple of thoughts regarding this.
First, I understand that the IE team is trying to cut unused features to get rid of unnecessary bloat, which is in keeping with the minimalist UI (Firefox, on the other hand, is all about the bloat). But cutting a feature that people actually use seems foolhardy, particularly when it's a feature that IE can boast that competitors cannot. Firefox is already boasting "extensions" as a feature that IE lacks; IE should be able to tout features that Firefox and others lack.

Second, I'm sorry, but the ability to synchronize and cache RSS feeds is completely unrelated to synchronizing cached offline sites in general. Come on, now. ;) The posters to the above cited thread don't buy it, and rightly so.

IE7 is an app that certain reviewers and users want to suck. They want it to fail so they can have a ball trashing it. When they evaluate IE7, they will be predisposed to hate it, and so will seek out reasons to hate on it. Surely, you guys on the IE team know this. Why give them more ammo than they already have (lack of a download manager is another big problem)?

(BTW, one of the posters to the above cited thread indicates that he works for or with the UK government and European Commission, and "uses offline file synchronisation to be alerted of updates [from UK-gov and EC sites]. None of these websites offer RSS." Do you really want to piss off the EC even more? :P)

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Reviews of IE7 beta 2 [Reviews of IE7 beta 2]

Escamillo — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:54:05 GMT

Here are a couple of reviews of IE7 betat 2.
InformationWeek: IE7 For XP Beta 2: Has Firefox Met Its Match?

PCMag.com: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview

These are generally favorable reviews. I post them in response to the trashing that IE7 has received here (comments such as "outside of Channel9 or MS sites, all you see is negative impressions of IE7"), particularly regarding the UI.

The reviews don't address my main beef with IE7, the lack of a decent download manager (allowing one to manage a queue of downloads (the queue should be persistent across browsing sessions), particularly allowing one to suspend/resume individual downloads in the queue).

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Cool Origami video released at UMPC.com [Cool Origami video released at UMPC.com]

Escamillo — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:23:25 GMT

http://umpc.com/video.aspx

Enjoy. :)

P.S. - Some models that will be shipping are shown here: http://umpc.com/product.aspx

P.S. Frame-by-frame analysis of the video: http://www.origamiportal.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=15

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