Microsoft Outlook Introduces 'Undo'

Along with the Sweep button and the new theme and email service, Outlook, which Microsoft have provided over the years, they've introduced the 'Undo' button to the masses. Now everyone can take it easy in recovering emails which they've already deleted and want back. It's nice to see Outlook go a bit easy on managing emails, seeing that there mainstream e-mail service has been around for years.

My Thoughts on Annoying Norton AntiVirus

I didn't ask to sign up to Norton. I was more of a PC Tools person and it looked like Norton went out of their way to purchase PC Tools and Norton is back again on my computer.

I got this error message two weeks ago telling me that I need to download another program to REMOVE the files to PC Tools and it will re-install Norton. It's an 'Error'. It's more like a false alarm then an error. The files they were addressing wasn't a 'virus' but more of files left in the computer and how it's been styled out.

I can understand that the guys at Norton has superior management skills but they've received loads of annoying complaints of neglect. I would rather spend $40 on a blimp in SimCity then put up with Norton. Norton are clearly inventing trade secrets via hazing and I'm just another person who has to put up with it.

My Re-thought on E-mail!

One of the mysteries I've always had was knowing exactly what e-mail is and what it will become. (Yes, in 2014, someone explaining what e-mail really is!), As clumsy as it may come across, the truth is that I'm one of those folks who signed up of an e-mail account because it was simply 'cool' to have one.

E-mail isn't so bad. It's just went someone labels e-mail as 'cool', like Hotmail (the clues in the name, you just have to have it because it was 'hot'), when you end up thinking

That's what the generation of 95 to 2001 did. Everyone taken care of their e-mail addresses, where they actually were careful handing their e-mail addressed out to someone and making sure they got the right messages. They even send their friends e-cards or e-something to each other, because it was much quicker to do so at the time, compared to letters and telephone.

Unfortunately this level of care, what I'm led to believe in those annoying chain letters, which made threats like closing your e-mail account if you don't send the email to 10 of your friends or someone will die tonight if you don't forward it to your best friend in time and etc because they were your friend and cared about it. That's emotional blackmail at it's finest of it's day and a bit scary thinking about it, considering that there were people who lead that kind of stuff.

It's nice to have an e-mail, maybe just for personal use, finding ways to to litter your e-mail accounts newsletters. Interesting how signing up to other services work to get invoiced and confirmations and all sorts and the whole process is automated. You may aswell sign up too loads of news letters but many companies are taking it, not so easy on that, forcing you to hand over your personal details and having an account with them.

Messages from friends are rare, I like having people around me and sent texts and whatever now mobile phones have text messages and etc, I just think people grow out of email much quicker because the amount of value isn't there compared to everything else and I do think e-mail gets de-valued alot because of e-mail scams, phishing tricks and spam.

How far the email service will go will be beyond me, I just know with all this competition, eventally each service is going to have something unique to sell itself on, just like the 'Sweep' button from Microsoft's services, that they've keep renaming from time to time, which is useful and I use it once in a while and then one day (like in 10 years time, but I'll be surprised if it sooner then I thought it was), maybe one service will start asking for money over e-mail accounts because the value is there. It's rather scary thinking about it that way.

My Thoughts on the British OS System

Being from Britain, one of the more interesting software that have come out of Britain is the Ubuntu software. It's an free OS which allows people to power up their computers however it's no Windows with the startbar, it's has less freedom and it lacks the freedom to get the programs to run. Maybe because they think video games are a waste of time and effort to manage (it's true and they think like that).

I do think they're over-the-top aggressive and almost becoming another one of these tech-companies that's plastering their trademarked logo on anything you can buy, it's something that Washington state-based Real Networks did before the dot.com bubble bust in an effort to get people to download their Realplayer and somehow they're managing to survive despite the little activity.

I'm not going to lie, I'm a fan of Ubuntu, one of my hard drives has the destkop operating system however I barely use it because most of my work is done on a Windows OS ran software and I do think it's a shame because it has a very mellow feel to it to make computers feel more accepted now a days, maybe another time.

Maybe the folks in Asia will take on Ubuntu and work with it a bit more. Ubuntu has already got a market of South-Korean ran smartphones that already run the software and are already being taken on board and are successful in the smartphone market. I do think the Chinese feel bombarded with the amount Windows has put out with some of the things I've seen.

The State of Public Chat

Hello, my name is Derek. I want to post about public chatrooms. I think it's interesting, I've been using them and taking part off and on since 1998 with Microsoft's approach of allowing people to use chatrooms. What interests me and also doesn't gel with me is the demise of the Microsoft chatrooms in 2003. This is mainly due to paedophiles who use the chatrooms (Source: BBC News) or scammers and stuff like that for Microsoft to shut their chat service down.

I actually miss using public chatrooms because it was fun sitting down waiting for someone who I really don't like and finding ways to sort that person out and telling the entire room why that individual is a twat. It doesn't means that it doesn't happen to me. It happened to me as well and I had to put up to it and I'm had my thrills. I've had my fun and settled down.

Having to sit down here and too wait for the very people who've bought chatrooms to the mainstream (Microsoft) to do something to say that public chatrooms while I see people make choices which don't last from time to time, maybe it's fun for a bit but after a while, it doesn't last and people just become bored and chatrooms don't last. Games doesn't help as well. Maybe.

I'm sure people and users still enjoy chatrooms, I'm not going to recommend any because I do think it defeats the choice people make when visiting a chatroom and considering that Google is there. I'm actually been in one or two very terrible chatrooms that were mistakenly put on top of the Google search engines and later bumped off which have left community stranded. It's not Google's fault but it's worth drawing up because it's worth pointing out that it's to know that Google are still human. (Trying my best not to suck up to Google on Blogger). I still use a chatroom and doing what I want really and taking the opportunity to make the out of chat as chatrooms do close down from time to time and make the best out of it.

It doesn't mean I'm very annoyed at these chatrooms trying to show off how amazing chats are, it's always best to complain about the source of this frustration I have and that is the Microsoft's web department, who thought putting chatrooms to the mainstream computers was good enough to be closed down back in 2003 and are probably running and hiding with the MSN Network crew as they are popular and having to show them how amazing chatrooms are.