Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Opting out of personalized advertising

February 21, 2010

Web advertising is a necessary evil.  Ninety-nine percent of online contents are “free”.  You need not to shell out a credit card or pay for services like email, news, games and online storage.  However, to support all this “free” service web advertising is the main revenue for website owners.  Microsoft advertising displays ad that are relevant to your Bing search history and places them along your search queries.  You can opt out of the personalized ads through this link.  Once you complete this form MS will place a cookie on your PC to disable tracking.  If you delete this cookie the opt out setting is also removed and you will have to redo the opt out process.

However, this only eliminate “personalized” advertising.  It does not eliminate advertising at all.  The ads will still be there based on your current search and not on past searches.  All this really does is eliminate the tracking cookie that Microsoft uses to keep a history of your searches.

Windows Update

October 21, 2008

Apparently, Microsoft does not want us to update through Internet Explorer any longer.  I usually update computers at work with Windows Update through IE.  I’m not sure when they decided on this or even if there was news about this but here is the screen shot of the message I received.  If you look at the address bar there is a “thanks” – huh, thanks for not updating our software MS.

Note:  This is done from Windows XP station with IE 6.  Have not tested on Vista yet.

Update this!

Update this!

Deal: Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate for $60

October 20, 2008
MS Office 2007

MS Office 2007

Here’s a great deal for anyone with a student email address or knows someone with one.  You can get MS Office Ultimate 2007 for a low $60.  This is no stip down version either.  What’s included is MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote, Groove, Publisher, Access, Infopath, and Accounting Express (2008).  Grab yours quickly before this deal expire.


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