Microsoft recently has published the History of Windows operating system highlighting their path of success in these 25 years. (Read here) Though it is not as detailed as many of the readers may expect, it is definitely a nice piece of writing. Anyway, at the end of the article Microsoft says that: What's next? Many laptops no longer have a slot for DVDs and some have solid state drives rather … [Read more...]
Microsoft Office Live Workspace documents will be moved to Windows Live SkyDrive account soon
IMPORTANT: Your Office Live Workspace beta account will be upgraded soon. Your Microsoft Office Live Workspace documents and permissions will be moved to your Windows Live SkyDrive account within the next two weeks. If you want to upgrade sooner, you can do so at any time. With your free SkyDrive account you can: Access and share documents and photos from virtually anywhere.* Take … [Read more...]
The Future of Silverlight: It is coming soon!
On December 2nd Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of .Net Developer platform, will unveil the future of Silverlight in his keynote at the free Silverlight Firestarter event. The event will be streamed live from Microsoft™s Redmond HQ, kicking off a day of dedicated Silverlight content. The Silverlight Firestarter is a free, one-day event dedicated to Silverlight and has something for … [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...]
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...]
How to Set up Free Hotmail, Yahoo!, GMail, AOL and other e-mail in Windows Live mail
You can use your Windows Live Mail, which you can download free of cost from the official website, to check all your free accounts, without the need to open the page and login individually. However, among these free email accounts, you can not reply from Free Yahoo! mail, you have to open the browser, go to the mail site (mail.yahoo.com) , sign in, open inbox and reply (or compose). Step 1 You … [Read more...]