The Yaxis Live by Rajesh Kumar

As a registrant to a Microsoft programme coming February, I have been receiving mails inviting me to for a 60 day trial of MS Office 2007. MS has been generously sending me such invitations since Jan 20, the day I probably registered for the conference. These mails are sent on behalf of Romi Mahajan, Microsoft IT Pro Marketing.

So far so good, except that the download does not work! I have been trying it to do a download since the day I received Microsoft’s so generous mail to few moments back only to receive the following message.
Incidentally, Microsoft was mailing out trial CDs of MS Office 2007 through its website and I did receive one recently. So what stopped me from installing? Well, the limitation of 25 trials(or 60 days max) was too much of a risk to be taken on a machine that is used predominantly by my wife. So why I am trying now? To see if the mail trial offer is more generous.

But here’s the best part. If you wish to notify Microsoft, this is what you notice in the mail.

This essentially means that if you reply to the mail, it would not reach Romi Mahajan, but that you would simply be unsubscribe from Microsoft’s mailing list. Have fun!!

Office 2007,Microsoft

It is official, Aish and Abhishek are engaged. Though media was agog with stories on the actor duo almost daily, CNN IBN reports that it was only on the Premiere of Guru that Abhi popped the Q and Aish said yes. The engagement happened evening of Sankranti day.So, that settles it for now. While videos of the engagement are not (yet) available on the net, CNN IBN was extremely excited to report on this.It also guarantees that the newly released Guru would be a superhit movie like none because audiences are known to like when real and reel tend to merge.All the more so because of Manirathanam’s tight direction and A R Rehman’s superb music. To play the songs, click here or else manually select here.

CNN reports that Nicholas Negroponte of MIT has steered the One Laptop Per Child project one more step towards reality as its heads for production in 2007. The OLPC project website states that this laptop would be ‘a potent learning tool created expressly for the world’s poorest children living in its most remote environments’. These laptops are being called XO Machine and they are being made for world’s poorest children. These machines are extremely unconventional. They have a handcrank in case the battery wears down, and work on Linux OS and AMD 366 Mhz processor. Sorry, no harddisk, but instead 512 MB flash memory. XO machines would come with an inbuilt camera, and have a browser, and can quickly form a wireless network with similar machines in the neighborhood. What’s more, the OLPC project seeks to eventually produce such machines under $ 100 and seeks to distribute these cute machines to the poorest kids across the world though collaboration with the governments. However, these machines are not likely to be on sale in the markets, atleast not in immediate future. But trust me, no kid stuff this.