Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

IE7 cannot associate with telnet program.

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

If you happen to use IE7 and found out that you can no longer use the telnet program associated with IE7, put this key on your registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_DISABLE_TELNET_PROTOCOL
Name: iexplore.exe
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0

Reporting a Bug to Microsoft(tm) and get charged 35 USD

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

I wrote an article about Fernando Gont, a person who had problem submitting a bug to Microsoft (and several other vendors). Actually he did manage to file the bug and I was not sure whether Microsoft(tm) charged him or not (probably not). However, this person got charged 35 USD for filing a bug on Outlook(tm) [...]