Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category
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 its audience and appeal to many everyday users. So Microsoft decided to do something unique and bundle Windows 7 with a virtual machine with Windows XP inside. This allowed them not only to bring virtualization to the masses, but also to seamlessly integrate compatibility for legacy applications.
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 good as or better than Google’s. Microsoft also hopes to use Yahoo to divert sales from Google, which generates more than $20 billion a year from ads.
More about this news on Yahoo! News
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, I’m equally certain that Microsoft would like nothing more than to not be reminded of how expensive its products can be compared with open-source solutions. After all, Microsoft was the company that turned the software industry on its head by introducing lower-cost solutions years ago to undermine the Unix businesses of IBM and Hewlett-Packard, and the database businesses of Oracle and IBM.
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. That’s a rather general outline, so we’ll dive into these new features for a closer look.
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 Ubuntu as his main operating system.
Click here to read ‘A Linux users review on Windows 7′
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.
With Windows 7 not yet ready ’til next year, there are two options you can experience it now: First is you can download Windows 7 beta and install it on your computer and as of this writing Microsoft has extends Windows 7 Beta availability until January 24th.
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If you are only interested on the aethetics that it brings then you can convert your Windows XP into Windows 7 using the procedures as stated on this Lifehacker.com article on Make your XP Desktop into Windows 7