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In an unbelievable response to my post yesterday, Microsoft warned this morning that they have an even more serious problem with Microsoft Word. Apparently, simply opening any word document in any Microsoft product capable of opening word documents is enough for you to get a virus.

Their solution: “exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments from both known and unknown sources.”

Microsoft last month released a bug report that its enterprise file replication won’t work correctly during the month of December. At what point do you say “this is just plain stupid?”

So, I used my Windows Mobile 5 phone for an additional 3 weeks after writing my last post. What I found was that there is a serious bug in Windows Mobile 5 where it would suddenly stop syncing for no particular reason. This seemed to be somewhat correlated to when it was plugged in or [...]

I just got the I-Mate SP5m, one of the smallest new Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones. I was very curious as to how far along Windows Mobile has come. My only prior experience was with an Ipaq a few years ago, which is now collecting dust on my shelf as I really don’t use most of [...]

We recently got an Averatec 2200 laptop, which is a pretty sweet device. It’s small, fast, and moreover, has a great feel to the keyboard. Unfortunately, it keeps locking up in Linux, and the wireless card doesn’t seem to get recognized when I installed Ubuntu 6.06. Because I want to do a lot of unix-like [...]

When Microsoft released the XBox 360, they added a new feature to their online “live” service called “Live Arcade.” The idea behind the arcade is that smaller independent developers (“Indies”) can develop lower cost games, and market them at lower prices to consumers without having to get shelf space at the local GameStop. In principal, [...]