Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Entrepreneurial idea from a P5 kid

Posted: July 5, 2010 by ralliart12 in ScratchPad
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“My niece asked me to take over Microsoft so that every time someone uses Microsoft Word they will have to pay me licensing fee.”

In a nutshell, this contest is for students to create “synths” (3D-visual mapping) of places of interest within Singapore. I’ve been a day-one fan of the potential of Microsoft’s PhotoSynth project from their Live Labs department. This is the perfect opportunity to flex my composition muscle, clock some field-work & deploy the final output via [...]

UPDATE: this-just-in – Microsoft has finally unveiled their latest revision of the Windows Mobile platform. The name has been revised to “Windows Phone 7” to encourage the masses to throw all their perception of the Windows Mobile platform out of the “Windows” (pun intended), i.e. like how they are trying now to make everyone forget [...]

Just installed Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) this morning. Extremely fast process, i.e. download of 2.44GB took me half an hour, actual installation inclusive of 1 round of Windows Update took 1hr). In contrast, had wasted a lot of time getting GPartEd to resize my existing XP partition to no avail(used Partition Magic in the [...]