I use a free excellent service called StatCounter. It tells me who visits my Blog and Website every day. It helps me know which of my posts interest people. For a few months, I had been getting visits from Microsoft Corporation.They used to be visits to the home page rather than to any particular post or web page. My son, a software specialist, told me it must be web crawling done by Bing, the Microsoft search engine. It is done to index all web pages, so as to yield good results when people search the web for something using that search engine. It made sense because Google has been doing it to my Blog from the beginning of my Blog.
But today I had a pleasant surprise. Microsoft visited a specific post of mine -Dynamic Arrows in PowerPoint. I had written about the use of flashing arrows in PowerPoint presentations, something Microsoft or any other similar presentation software had not included in their available features. The arrows draw attention of the viewer, and can substitute a laser pointer, or help in self playing shows where there is no one to point out anything. I was rather proud of what I had done and posted the technique along with an illustration. You may see it at the following link, if you have missed it.
http://shashankparulekar.blogspot.in/2013/01/dynamic-arrows-in-powerpoint.html
I am quite happy that Microsoft visited my Blog, read what I did with their software that they had not thought of. Perhaps they will include that in their next version of PowerPoint. Most probably they will not give me any royalty for it, since they have just visited my Blog, without making any attempt to contact me. :-)
For those of you who think I am just telling a fictitious story, here is proof. It is the StatCounter report of that visit.
The IP Address: 199.30.18.215 listed is of Microsoft Corporation, as can be found out using any Whois service on the net. Here is what I found today.
But today I had a pleasant surprise. Microsoft visited a specific post of mine -Dynamic Arrows in PowerPoint. I had written about the use of flashing arrows in PowerPoint presentations, something Microsoft or any other similar presentation software had not included in their available features. The arrows draw attention of the viewer, and can substitute a laser pointer, or help in self playing shows where there is no one to point out anything. I was rather proud of what I had done and posted the technique along with an illustration. You may see it at the following link, if you have missed it.
http://shashankparulekar.blogspot.in/2013/01/dynamic-arrows-in-powerpoint.html
I am quite happy that Microsoft visited my Blog, read what I did with their software that they had not thought of. Perhaps they will include that in their next version of PowerPoint. Most probably they will not give me any royalty for it, since they have just visited my Blog, without making any attempt to contact me. :-)
For those of you who think I am just telling a fictitious story, here is proof. It is the StatCounter report of that visit.
OrgName: Microsoft Corp OrgId: MSFT-Z Address: One Microsoft Way City: Redmond StateProv: WA PostalCode: 98052 Country: US
