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For the most part, truly great customer service experiences tend to be few and far between. Companies that appear to be snake-oil slick, and customer orientated when attempting to sell you on their product, often take a turn for worse once you’ve actually become their customer and are seeking some type of support. Too often [...]

Since move from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 I’ve noticed a performance hit when using the text editor. Specifically a “sluggishness” while typing. Heading over to Microsoft for a solution I found that I was not alone in observing this problem, and that the issue itself could be a lot worse. At it’s worst a [...]

With a ten year in the making deal finally comping to a close, it seems that Yahoo and Microsoft searching will merge. This pretty much means that whenever you Yahoo, you’re reallying just going Bing. Most people in my professional circles (the web development circle) thinks that Microsoft is wasting their money and Bing is [...]

While trying to use Windows Vista’s Media Center I ran into an interesting problem. The Media Center would run, but not display. I could hear it starting up, and I could hear when my mouse would hover over an active menu item but the only thing I had to look at was a black screen. [...]