Monday, June 23, 2008

We're Up and Running with iTunes

Mark the date! Today, The Microsoft Duo officially was accepted by iTunes after a long-anticipated wait by everyone! You can check us out with our Feed Fridays which includes a new podcast added to iTunes every Friday! Check us out at: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=283827367 or look for The Microsoft Duo in iTunes. Check us out on Fridays, and if you like us, reccommend us to your friends.
Tune in soon,
(Today, Proud to be) Podcast Manager/Vista Advisor

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Firefox 3-Bigger and Badder than Ever

Hello there readers, old and new (hopefully),
I have just downloaded the new Firefox 3, adding to the 8,000,000+ that were downloaded on day 1 of the release. The design is definitely revamped, I can say that. It is even spell-checking this blog, so there shouldn't be any errors, for those picky readers. Also, for those of you trying to give us viruses through Firefox 3, sorry! Living up to its old promise, it is truly the safest web browser around, notifying you immediately about bad sites and letting you check licenses (like IE7). Also, its downloads can be paused and resumed at any time, but there really isn't much of a need since it is so FAST! I just got on using an average-strength wireless signal to a high bandwidth site in less than 2 seconds (Yes, I counted). There are a few things that are for the negative, but can be changed. The most obvious is the super-large back button, compared to the original, but can easily be removed. Also, if you wish to remove history or set preferences, you enter into the "awesome bar", or the new address bar with drop-down memory from your previous sites and bookmarks, about:config, and receive a message saying that it may void your warranty if you continue. The one thing is, ONLY continue if you know what the heck you are doing and aim to do, otherwise, say goodbye to that perfectly-good download, and you can't blame Firefox, because you promised to be careful :). Another new feature is that with e-mail, you don't NEEd to open an external mail source, especially if you use Yahoo! Mail or Gmail. There's a new app. for that. To find out how, watch the next podcast, Episode Two, or visit http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-50002641.html, from our friends at CNET, to see it RIGHT NOW! Overall, I like the new design, and the "awesome bar", almost like the memory in IE (Internet Explorer) 7 that drops down when you type, except this gives you titles, and it takes less letters, too, to find out what you need.
Check out our next podcast.
Signing out-Podcast Manager/Vista Advisor

Friday, June 20, 2008

The All-New Friday Feed: Firefox 3

In the first 24 hours of its release, over 8 million downloads were chalked up for Firefox 3. This outweighed the release of Opera 9.5. Now that it is out, our friends at CNET have this video which talks a little bit about it and figuring it out. A feature on this is set for next week's podcast on our Friday Feed. Enjoy.
Go to http://www.cnet.com/ to view this video.
Podcast Manager/Vista Advisor

Our New Friday Feed

Hello there new readers!I hope that you might've found this sight by our new iTunes podcast from The Microsoft Duo. Today is the big day in technology where myslef, the Podcast Manager and Vista Advisor and my other partner who makes up the duo, the Site Manager or XP Expert, place our biggest and baddest blogs on what's new throughout the week and what to watch out for next week. The next two weeks, other than getting our website and podcast started, we are going to be focusing on the June 30th discontinuation of XP :(. We'll tell you everything you need to know about it and what is going to happen. I will update you on how this is going to affect Microsoft's control of Vista and reputation.Please keep checking in and feel free to leave us comments or e-mail us topics with your name and state/province to duopodcast@gmail.com.
Keep Blogging!
Podcast Manager and Vista Advisor

Thursday, June 19, 2008

We're Up and Running Strong

The Microsoft Duo is proud to unveil our new blog. Check in daily for news about technology involving Microsoft and anything to do with Microsoft XP, Vista, and compatibility, plus features we just find cool! If you have cool features, drop us a line, and we may do a feature story on it on our new Friday Feed Podcast of The Microsoft Duo, now coming to iTunes. In the meantime, Friday is our big day to add the best feeds of the week, hilighted by our new video podcast, in which working in cooperation with the site administrator, I will be editing and in charge of.Any comments or questions, please reply or email us at duopodcast@gmail.com! We're Game for suggestions, and value them.Thanks for cooperation, and please be sure to subscribe to our RSS feeds related to these posts, which are now activated.
Happy Blogging,
Podcast Manager