#microsoft


vBulletin and Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing some dis­play issues in IE8 with your vBulletin-based forums (and/or gen­eral sites), you might want to try adding the fol­low­ing meta-tag in your HEAD section:

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    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>
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You may get more info about this meta-tag and issues that might be con­nected with IE8’s strict­ness at the IEBlog, and/or via this Microsoft Sup­port arti­cle.

I’m a PC — Tron Guy

Man… this guy is awe­some—“Tron Guy1. Funny for the out­fit, but admirable for his guts wear­ing it.

  1. Also known as Jay May­nard. []

Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ads

It seems that Microsoft finally released its first video ad star­ring Bill Gates and Jerry Sein­feld. It’s called Shoe Cir­cus.

After a minute and 30 sec­onds, I just felt that there’s “noth­ing spe­cial”. I did have some type of high expec­ta­tion when Sein­feld walked through the mall only to see Bill Gates try­ing on shoes at a Payless-type of shoe store. But that was about it.

It just didn’t work for me. It was just a wig­gle that sig­naled that there is more to come from Microsoft in the future. I guess its only the first, but so much for first impres­sions right?

Mean­while, as I was dis­cussing this with Mike, he reminded me about another video that was about Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft. Now that is funny:

Happy Thanksgiving and Damn You Amazon Customers!

Happy Turkey Day! It’s been one hec­tic day already. I don’t know if you have heard about Amazon.com’s new gig, Cus­tomers Vote, but I heard it first from Ryan ear­lier this week. He noted it because of the Xbox 360 deal for only a low-down-and-dirty $100 (core sys­tem). That’s about a $200+ sav­ing from its MSRP.

Any­ways, it was one excit­ing and dis­ap­point­ing morn­ing at the same time. Not only was the deal adver­tised on Amazon.com’s home­page, but it was every­where! I mean every­where as in: radio, vlogs, blogs and maybe even on TV. There were only 1,000 units for the deal, and that ain’t a lot. In terms of internet-store for a deal this great, that’s less than a sec­ond or two in terms of the deal’s lifetime.

Any­ways, enough of my stats talk. I guess the rea­son why I was so upset in not get­ting one (other than I can make a quick $200 or more on ebay if I sell it) is that I got a new toy. I was hop­ing to use the money from the Xbox to feed this new crack, or at least make it free for me so I wouldn’t feel bad about spend­ing some money on “non­sense” items. Then again, it is from Costco.

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