Overview of content related to 'microsoft'
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, NYSE: MSFT) is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Microsoft)
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Web Focus: Must Email Die? |
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. |
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Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38) |
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. |
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Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions |
Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project |
Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility With Firefox |
Patrick Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review. |
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Search Engines: Using the Right Search Engine at the Right Time |
Phil Bradley takes a look at which search engines to use depending on what you need to find.. |
April 2005, issue43, regular column |
Installing Shibboleth |
Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly. |
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Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road |
Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office. |
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EuroCAMP 2005 |
Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid |
Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Search Engines: No Longer about Search |
Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?' |
January 2005, issue42, regular column |
Looking for a Google Box? |
Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance. |
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Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions. |
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Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA |
Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles. |
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Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements |
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
World Wide Web Conference 2004 |
Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Search Engines: The Google Backlash |
Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective. |
April 2004, issue39, regular column |
Through the Web Authoring Tools |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing. |
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ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon |
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning |
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future |
Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
Search Engines: The Year 2003 in Perspective |
Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites? |
Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution |
Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004. |
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OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now? |
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World |
Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle, Washington. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2003, issue37, news and events |
Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian |
Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series. |
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WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
Review: Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of one of William Blake's most famous works. |
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Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project |
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
What Features in a Portal? |
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development |
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. |
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Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools |
Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities. |
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Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century |
Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. |
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Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards |
Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously. |
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Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion |
Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases. |
