Finally got a chance to visit capital of the mother country Delhi, India on 24^th August 2009.

I have been using live messenger for some time on my new windows 7 operating system. Windows 7 has got new way of displaying the tray icons. It's a most welcome feature.

Unfortunately Live Messenger is not abiding the rule. The problem with Live messenger is when the application is opened, the task bar will have two task items displayed on task bar. When the Live messenger is closed by clicking on X close button, task bar will still have one task item left. When the user selects to close the other task item, finally the application will exit, rather than running in the background.

Is it an expected behaviour of Windows Live Messenger?

 

Day by day, my confidence level on Microsoft products goes low. Few days ago I was thinking of not using internet explorer after all the frustration had with. My frustration still continues to be.

Now i may say its monopoly L, since i am left to use only internet explorer and no other choice.

Today i had to attend an online meeting on WebEx. To join the meeting i had to install the WebEx plug in. But the Internet Explorer 8 simply crashes whenever i get the Plug-In install bar.

I finally finished the meeting without WebEx. The worst part of it is Plug-Ins are supported only by Internet Explorer on windows operating system. But i got an unusable browser Internet Explorer which only crashes. I was left stranded L.

Either Microsoft should ship a stable product

or

WebEx should ship the tested Plug-In on all the versions of the browsers or WebEx desktop client.

The work around i found to get WebEx plug-in installed on my machine Windows XP with SP3 was, ...

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These days i hardly check my mails in rediff account. Rediff is one of popular sites in india with fastest free email service. Definitely much better than Live mail or yahoo mail in speed.

Rediff has changed the screen layout recently. For some reason i like the previous layout than the current. The way the contents organized was much better than now. A few days ago i wanted to check my mails, but took some time to identify the way to login to my mail box. The reason being there was no Rediff Mail link anywhere in the home page. It has got only Sign In link at top of the page. But Signing in by using the link directly takes the user into mail box, only to mailboxJ.

I doubt it is very intuitive in the main page. May be providing Sign In link in the Rediff mail main screen (if at all they have one) would make more sense than in the home page.

The better way must be providing...

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