Mar
22
Random tidbits
Dec
24
Hotmail washed up? NO!
- Hotmail serves 59 regional markets, in 36 languages.
- Microsoft hosts well over 1.3 billion inboxes. (Some users have multiple inboxes.)
- More than 350 million people actively use Hotmail on a monthly basis (source: comScore, August 2009).
- Microsoft handles over 3 billion messages a day and filters out more than 1 billion spam messages — mail that you never see in your inbox.
- Total Hotmail storage grows at over 2 petabytes a month. (A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes.)
- Microsoft currently has over 155 petabytes of storage deployed. (Seventy percent of storage is taken up with attachments, typically photos.)
- Windows Live Hotmail is the largest SQL Server 2008 deployment in the world
Apr
9
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The Six Phases of a Project:
* Enthusiasm
* Disillusionment
* Panic
* Search for the Guilty
* Punishment of the Innocent
* Praise for non-participants
Tax checklist: Deadline is a week away
Procrastinators, start your engines. Or at least, fire up your laptops. There’s just a week to go before you must file your 2008 tax return.
“If you’ve still got a job and your friends don’t, get ready for some awkward social situations.”
Jobs: How Unemployment Is Straining Friendships |
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