microsoft – THE LONG COUNTDOWN

Microsoft Banishes Japan from Language Pack Market?

May 13, 2008May 14, 2008 Nick RamsayTechnology

It’s been well over a year since I bought a new Japanese PC with Windows Vista and Office 2007. I did my research and made sure to buy Vista Ultimate so that I could switch Windows to English at the click of a button. That was no problem when Microsoft made an English language pack available as a free Ultimate Extra download. Office 2007 in Japanese I was already a […]

53% Still Use Internet Explorer 6

February 18, 2008 Nick RamsayTechnology

Do you use Internet Explorer 6.0? According to my web stats, 53% of IE users who visit this blog are still on version 6 of Microsoft’s web browser. In all fairness, unless you live behind a computer like I do, you probably aren’t even aware that Microsoft released version 7 in November 2006 to combat all the viruses that IE6 (and therefore Windows itself) was vulnerable to. Besides the security […]