Vishnu Prasad blog : Microsoft

Trick or Treat!!!!

Vishnu — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:38:00 GMT

Got some time...then listen to Yahoo Podcast on the history behind Halloween.

IE 7 RC1 available

Vishnu — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:22:00 GMT

Good news, IE7 is out of beta now. Bad news, it requires Genuine Windows OS to run. In case you happen to use Genuine Windows, you download IE7 here.

On a different note, here is more evidence of the well know Memory leak in Firefox. I have noticed this more often now-a-days. I use IE 6 and Firefox @ home. Firefox a.k.a FF has lot of known issues. For apparently no sane reason, FF hangs. This is noticible when my system does not recieve data from broadband connection. The number of tabs opened are less then 4. Also, there are no extensions installed.

Worst, when FF dies and i try to resurrect it again by opening it again, it does not show up. It stays in memory and keep hogging memeory. I think, it is time Google stop promoting FF for personal gains and look at Opera or Safari. Wonder if there is any hidden conspiracy by google here. Its trying to sabotage FF and come up with its own Browser. Its no secret that G funds Mozilla. Its time Mozilla start thinking on its own. End of the day its business and Google knows how to be in business..

View Website as a Graph

Vishnu — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:28:00 GMT

This Software displays your site as a graph. Very Cool...

This is how my site looks..

Click on this link to view it.

The program executes an applet to render the graph. I liked the way it slowly builds the graph as if its parsing the web pages for the tags and dynamically building the graph.
The catch is, it requires J2SE Ver 1.5 be installed on your machine. If you dont have it then you can download it. Your system literally comes to halt when the applet starts rendering the graph. IE which generally takes 8 to 15K memory sucks more than 50K.

Google Talk supports Voice Mail

Vishnu — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:09:00 GMT

Few days less than a year into business, google has finally added some teeth to its light weight IM beta client, Google Talk. GTak was released on Aug 22

It has added File Transfer, Voice Mail and Music Status options to its IM client. Check out the entire list here.

Nothing special to brag about as these already exists in Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger's.

The Voice Mail is a very scaled down version found in Yahoo!. But none the less, finally Google has updated its beta IM client before it scales down to alpha version. ;-)

Cheers
:B

Update:::

Google IM hold a pitiful 1% of total instant messaging market share, with 3.4 million unique users in May 2006 according to ComScore, a respected information resource.

The controversy was trigerred by NT Times article In the Race With Google, It’s Consistency vs. ‘Wow’. Many cry that these figures are not accurate and ComScore is expected to release a updated report.

What ever be the actual number, Google IM has a long road ahead.....