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Author Topic: list of free software offered by MS  (Read 6164 times)

urlwolf

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list of free software offered by MS
« on: August 06, 2006, 05:49 AM »
« Last Edit: August 06, 2006, 08:49 AM by Carol Haynes »

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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2006, 10:43 AM »
nice link thanks
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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2006, 11:25 AM »
that is impressive.  kudos to the person that did that.

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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2006, 10:22 PM »
hmm... the page is unaccessible from firefox.. :(

The Road to Know Where Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft.pnglist of free software offered by MS

aah... msn spaces. in true microsoft's tradition, no other browsers are allowed, i guess... :P
« Last Edit: August 06, 2006, 11:50 PM by lanux128 »

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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2006, 10:46 PM »
Works fine in opera, are you sure ad block isnt breaking it?

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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2006, 11:12 PM »
Works fine in opera, are you sure ad block isnt breaking it?
nope, i'm not using adblock... and it also works on k-meleon, eventhough with some strange layout problems.

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there must be something in my config... i'll look into it later

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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2006, 11:33 PM »
lanux - it works for me in ff.  current GA version. 

It did take a while to load and then I was at the very bottom of the page to start...
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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2006, 11:49 PM »
yes, it does now... eventhough i had to try on a new profile... ;)
i must have broken msn's layout inadvertently...

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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2006, 01:04 PM »
You aren't alone - having edited the URL I couldn't load the page in Firefox - I think it was down or something as it now works fine.

I am enjoying playing with 'Microsoft Scalable Fabric' which is down the page some way. It is a new desktop organiser that allows you to group windows into 'tasks' and also to drag windows to the side of the screen in a reduced size format (effectively keeping windows on the destop rather than minimizing to the task bar). The 'tasks' groups of windows can be restored or 'put away' en masse.

It gives the illusion of piles of paper across your desktop. It is still an app waiting to be fully devloped but it is neat and quite fun.

Not sure I would keep it running for ever though.

Might be very useful for people with two monitors.

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Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2006, 03:08 PM »
i thought the scalable fabric thingy was quite interesting for a while, Carol. i think i only kept it running for a few hours though. the novelty wore off.

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2269.0

it would be nice if it was developed further and tidied up a bit.