Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is considering the next version of Windows as the riskiest product bet by the Redmond company, according to a Mary-Jo Foley report. Windows 8, or Windows vNext as Microsoft would prefer it, is for the most part a great unknown. In the post-Longhorn/Vista era, the software giant is extremely careful with the details it shares about Windows operating … [Read more...]
Computer and Internet
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Forget Windows 8/Windows 9, Microsoft’s Future Is in the Cloud
Windows and Office continue to be Microsoft™s main cash cows, with a range of additional offerings also qualifying for positions of top earners. There are a range of company divisions pulling in over $1 billion in revenue each year, including Xbox, SQL Server, System Center, Unified Communications, SharePoint, Developer Tools, Dynamics, and Online Advertising. And yet, Microsoft is looking past … [Read more...]
Microsoft Is Superior to Google : Steve Ballmer
Microsoft Is Superior to Google, Says Steve Ballmer Talking about the Cloud The rivalry between Microsoft and Google has only accentuated in the past years, with the software company climbing into the Cloud and expanding its territory on the search market, and with the search giant producing operating systems to compete with Windows client and Windows mobile platforms. Microsoft Chief Executive … [Read more...]
U.S. Air Force starts long trek to Windows 7
The U.S. Air Force has begun a major transition from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 7. When the process is complete in December 2011, all of the service™s 600,000 desktop and laptop computers will be upgraded. Speaking at a Pentagon press briefing on Nov. 2, Air Force Chief Information Officer, Lt. Gen. William Lord described the process as œa daunting task. He added that the transition is not … [Read more...]
UniBrows:New add-on puts IE6 in your IE8
Browsium, a Washington-based startup composed of ex-Microsoft employees and partners, is planning to release an add-on that lets customers run the most-hated version of Internet Explorer within a more modern Microsoft browser. That's right: UniBrows will put IE6 in your IE8. Currently in beta, the add-on will ship later this month and will sell for $5 per user per year. "Companies need something … [Read more...]
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
" At the recent Virus Bulletin 2010 Conference in Vancouver, BC, I made a presentation highlighting infection data collected from the Malicious Software Removal Tool and data collected from Microsoft Security Essentials in its first year. The presentation (coincidentally on the Security Essentials one year anniversary), entitled "Observations and lessons learned from comparing point-in-time … [Read more...]
The Customize Windows : Announcement
Respected visitors, Please kindly note that, we have moved from our previous website customizewindows.co.nr to this website The Customize Windows . If you have typed the url in address bar/clicked the previously saved bookmark or clicked any url in Microsoft Answers, deviantart or elsewhere, or came after clicking Search engine result(s) to reach this website, kindly update and save this new … [Read more...]
Microsoft Posts Record Revenues in Quarter
On Thursday, Microsoft announced operating income of $7 billion on record revenue of $16.2 billion for the quarter ending September 30. The results were dramatically better than expectations and up significantly from the same time period a year ago. Indeed, the company experienced double-digit sales and income growth. Net income jumped a whopping 51 percent. Microsoft also reported that all its … [Read more...]
New Supercomputer
Zhou Xingming, an NUDT professor said the computer is "equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs (graphics processing units)," and was able to "store all 27 million books in the National Library of China four times." The announcement was posted Thursday on several Chinese computer research websites. An official listing of the world's fastest supercomputers, the semiannual TOP500, is due … [Read more...]
Windows 8, Windows 9 in the Post-PC World
" What does the future hold for Windows 8, Windows 9 and beyond? Where is Windows heading in the next five years, or in the next decade? Is the post-PC era going to usher in the post-Windows era as well? Are the two synonymous? These are legitimate questions, especially on a day when Microsoft™s soon to be ex-Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie opines that we™re at the dawn of a new day and that … [Read more...]
Tips to clean up your computer
Its necessary to clean up your Windows PC for running it properly. This term clean up can be broadened to Software side and Hardware Side. Software side It is needed to clean the Junk files, temporary files, invalid registry keys (those are generated from improperly uninstalled softwares) and yes security side should be included too. Its advisable to use Disk Cleanup utility that comes naively … [Read more...]