Late last week, Microsoft put an end to its Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) program. The Office Notifier, the OGA ActiveX control for Internet Explorer, and the OGA plug-in for Firefox have also been retired. The change took place on December 16, was first confirmed in a KB article last updated on December 17, 2010, and found by ZDNet:

The Office Genuine Advantage (“OGA”) program has been retired. For more information about the benefits of genuine (more…)

thelordx writes “I’ve got a much younger brother who I’d like to teach how to program. When I was younger, you’d often start off with something like BASIC or Apple BASIC, maybe move on to Pascal, and eventually get to C and Java. Is something like Pascal still a dominant teaching language? I’d love to get low-level with him, and I firmly believe that C is the best language to eventually learn, but I’m not sure how to get him there. Can anyone recommend (more…)

MarkWhittington writes “The Augustine Commission has not officially presented its findings to the White House, but already a push back is starting to occur over the possibility that the Ares 1 rocket will be canceled after three billion dollars and over four years of development. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet but persistent public relations campaign to save the (more…)