Microsoft has recently heated up the smartphone market with the launch of Windows Phone 7, at the launch event they recently officially announced 10 WP7 smartphones, which they will hope will battle it out with Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS [...]
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Windows X mode inside Windows 7
One of Windows 7′s most interesting features is going to be the Windows XP mode, available on Professional and Ultimate edition licenses. Typically, virtual machines are only supported via separatelypurchase software from vendors such as VMWare and Microsoft. This limits [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo Internet Search Engine Partnership Sealed
Microsoft and Yahoo! has finally struck a partnership in terms of internet searches as Microsoft now powers Yahoo search engine. A 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft its best shot yet to show its new search technology, Bing, is as [...]
Microsoft to open source: Please don’t compete on price!
Microsoft must really love open source and want to see it succeed. Recently, Microsoft’s open-source team lead, Sam Ramji, urged open-source vendors not to compete with Microsoft on price, but instead focus on “value.” While I’m sure Ramji meant well, [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Essentials
Like it or loathe it, a new release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is upon us once again. For this eighth iteration of their browser, they are focusing heavily on security, ease of use and improvements in RSS, AJAX and CSS. [...]
A Linux users review on windows 7
I found this nice article of a Linux user’s in depth review of Windows 7 which comes into a surprise. The author admits of still using Windows for his graphic designing tasks and projects but in the end still prefers [...]
Yugatech: Microsoft blames Netbooks for lower revenues
The last quarter numbers from Microsoft are out and it’s not looking very good. As such, Microsoft has announced it will lay off 5,000 workers in the next 18 months including the 1,800 it sent out the door earlier today. [...]
