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10 Nov, 2011
Microsoft seems to have decided against its tradition of sending cupcakes to Mozilla for each version of their Firefox release. For the latest release of Firefox i.e. Firefox 8, Microsoft didn’t send any cupcakes Mozilla’s way.
4 May, 2011
Google Streetview is getting widely popular and until now is the best means to get a panoramic view of streets around the world. The fact that Google Streetview captures images which many a times have risen questions of privacy violation by people in Europe and America. Recently, Microsoft has appeared in the scene with Bing Streetside. The service is currently available only in Seattle, San Francisco and Vancouver in Canada.
2 May, 2011
There is a long list of shortcuts and tricks for Microsoft Excel to get things done quickly and easily. As one may need to deal with large data using Excel, even a keyboard shortcut can be very handy. If you have a column with lots of data and need to use an earlier value in another cell within the same column, a dropdown list would be very handy. This can be done with a simple keyboard shortcut.
11 Feb, 2011
Microsoft’s Autorun feature has been a boon for many users but hackers have also been using it to input malwares without user authorization. Microsoft will soon release an update that it calls an “important but Non-Security” update that will remove the Autorun feature in Windows.
29 Nov, 2010
Despite being the most popular operating system in the world, there are a lot of issues with Windows. Things keep getting screwed up from time to time like. Well you can rely on Microsoft Help to get quick solutions of your problems via Twitter.
16 Nov, 2010
Now Microsoft is working on something more powerful than the Microsoft Surface, the LightSpace. LightSpace is a combination of elements of surface computing and augmented reality research to create a space whose surfaces would be to interactive to hand gestures and motions.
25 Oct, 2010
Windows Phone 7 has a totally new and user-friendly interface and is smoothly integrated with other services. Applications for the Windows Phone 7 are currently being developed and applications for Twitter, eBay etc. are already available. Some more applications have been released, of which some are just demos.
14 Oct, 2010
Painting or drawing arts would be easier on multi touch devices like iPhone or iPad. But can you imagine someone making 3D art with MS Paint? Dennis from Netherlands is an amazing artist who creates 3D art with MS Paint. Amazing isn’t it?
29 May, 2009
Microsoft is soon rolling out its new search engine, Bing. Formerly known as Kumo, Bing is the latest effort by Microsoft in the Search Engine scenario after live search. It is expected to be public from June 3, 2009. Rumors have it that Microsoft will be investing a 100 million dollars for its promotion.
1 Mar, 2009
Seems like Mcirosoft is on big plans to get more sturdy,intuitive and beautiful. A video released by Microsoft’s, Business division shows some groundbreaking technology that many of us may not even have thought of.
12 Jan, 2009
Microsoft’s Surface Computing Technology might have blow your heads off. Well PQLabs has come up with its surface computing device which it calls it the iTable. And it is just as smart and stunning as Microsoft’s surface.
31 Dec, 2008
Creativity flourishes at places where people get to exercise their brains and body in a cool environment. Glassdoor, a site that surveys about the best workstations around the globe has come up with a list of 50 best companies to work at based on the ratings from the employees.
19 Dec, 2008
Microsoft is going to launch the patch for the Internet Explorer’s bug called Zero Day Vulnerability. Because of this bug, several websites suffer from a malicious JavaScript, which targets Internet Explorer 7. It may execute a series of redirections to multiple URLs to finally connect to one of several different domains.
18 Nov, 2008
People love the online facility from Google, the Google Docs and so it is getting popular everyday. Suppose you conducted a brief study on the popularity of the some highly circulated magazines in your city. You write a report on that and create a pie-chart showing the basic data with Google Docs. But when you are done with the chart, you are struck with a problem, “Now how to attach this on the report that I wrote on Google Docs?”. Well that is simple.
14 Nov, 2008
Run commands help you launch applications very easily without having to click several times in a row.
6 Nov, 2008
Azure is a cloud based operating system from Microsoft. Azure is actually an operating System that runs over the internet from the Microsoft’s hosting data centers for the Azure Services Platform. Currently Azure is mainly aimed for web developers. Azure will help the Developers to manage and distribute Web Applications on the Internet through Microsoft’s own data centers.
