Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Lync 2010 communication platform considering it to be the descendant to the Office with new features including conferencing capabilities, support for high-definition voice and options for cloud delivery. It’s a Communication Server product lines which will give the users the feeling of subsist meeting. Microsoft will made this unified communications platform... Read More »

Microsoft Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops and laptops and also for tablet PC’s and media center PC’s. Norton Antivirus is a well known Antivirus for PC’s. Norton Antivirus developed and distributed by Symantec Corporation, which provides malware prevention and removal during subscription period.... Read More »

Dell has announced that it is planning to replace 25,000 BlackBerry Smartphone and in its place will provide its employees with Dell devices running in Microsoft’s operating system: Windows Phone7. A report from Bloomberg states that Bank of America and Citigroup are also testing Android Smartphones and iPhones in an effort to widen their choice of devices for their employees. In October 2010 Apple... Read More »

WVC1 is also known as Windows Media Video 9 Advanced profile, it implements a more recent and fully compliant advanced profile of the Vc1 codec standard. It supports interlaced content and is transport independent. With the previous version of the Windows Media Video 9 series codec users can deliver progressive content at data rates as low as one third that of the MPEG 2 codec and still get equivalent... Read More »

BitDefender is antivirus software that is developed by Romania based software company Softwin. It was launched in Nov, 2001 and is currently in its thirteen version. The 2011 version was launched in August 2010, which includes several protection and performance enhancements as search advisor and performance optimizer. BitDefender products feature antivirus and antispyware, privacy control and personal... Read More »

Microsoft Windows Vista Antivirus has a number of other names, it is also known as Windows Antivirus, XP Antivirus, Antivirus Pro, System Antivirus, and Spyware guard 2008, General Antivirus, Antivirus live, Vista Anti Malware 2010 and Total Security. Each division has its own way of downloading and installing in a computer. This antivirus is made to look functional to fool a computer user into thinking... Read More »

USB is Universal Serial Bus a specification to establish communication between devices and a host controller like personal computers. A USB has effectively replaced a variety of interfaces such as serial and parallel ports. It can connect computer peripherals like mouse, keyboards, printers, digital cameras, flash drives, personal media players, network adaptors and external hard drives. Following... Read More »

Individuals communicate with technology through the use of buttons or a mouse which are often hard to master, cumbersome and ergonomically not sufficient, with Kinect this will change. The cutting edge technology inside Kinect allows you to control an on screen character in a video game, in a natural way via the movement of your body and your voice, which mimics your every move. Kinects sees our bodies... Read More »

Google has passed comment on Microsoft by stating that giant software Microsoft is standing on its heels just with the expectation to leap forward of Google in terms of innovation and is also expected to catch up quickly. When Google Chief financial officer Patrick Pichette was asked whether he is concerned about the regulators that would force Google’s break-up because of its huge market engines,... Read More »

For many years, Microsoft squeezed Windows CE and then Windows Mobile into mobile phones, the operating system’s user interface was all wrong for a phone, it required a stylus and involved  putting user interface elements like a Windows style start button with cascading menus. The user interface would have much better on tablet device and the performance would have been great but on the other hand,... Read More »

Cloud.com is a venture-backed start-up that is based out of Cupertino that develops an open source cloud orchestration software product for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments. CloudStack is software that is designed to make it easier for Service Providers and Enterprises to build, manage and deploy IaaS offerings that is similar to Amazon EC2 and S3. This software... Read More »

A new Firefox Trojan virus is reported to affect users of older versions of Windows, the security firm Trend Micro has stated. In both versions of Firefox 3.5 and others, according to the Mozilla, zero day flaws causes a drive by download whereby a malicious file is downloaded and run without the users knowledge, it was first discovered on the official website for the Nobel peace prize, it was compromised... Read More »

The next generation video gaming experience console is backed by a half billion dollar ad campaign and packs in technology ripped from the fantasy world of minority report; it is also already sitting in more than 40 million living rooms. It’s not a new version of Microsoft’s Xbox but the five year old Xbox 360 paired with all new cameras the Redmond giant has dubbed Kinect. Kinect eliminates the... Read More »

Microsoft Store in Bellevue is the company’s seventh, a miniscule number as compared to more than 300 stores operated by Apple Inc. which has prompted Microsoft’s entry into the retail business. Although the broad availability of its products in retail outlets, Microsoft has come up with the idea of opening stores in order to have more of direct contact with customers and to showcase it’s increasingly... Read More »

The recent launch in Europe of Windows Phone 7 is a mixture of excitement and resigned indifference as only games were out in Europe – UNO HD and EARTHWORM Jim HD by Gameloft. Windows Phone 7 is equipped with the famous and heart throbbing games by Gameloft. Gameloft is a French publisher and video game developer with its headquarters in Paris and offices all around the world. The company is founded... Read More »

After much waiting the time came when Microsoft unleashed its seventh test version of Internet Explorer 9 which has been tagged as “real- world” Web based JavaScript programs. But with this development a rival’s accusation has also been parcelled that Microsoft is essentially engaged in the storied computer industry practise of benchmark engineering-designing technology to be fast on an artificial... Read More »

Azure is a Windows based cloud services operating system that serves as the development service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform, Windows Azure is a flexible platform that supports multiple languages and integrates with your existing on premises environment. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual... Read More »

The release of a broad consumer survey recently announced by Microsoft Corp. which involved over 38,000 men and women in 20 countries across the world. Questions about Microsoft’s perception were raised regarding counterfeit software.  As a resultant, most people are at least somewhat aware of certain dangers facing network security. Accordingly the survey it further indicates that the results... Read More »

Microsoft’s brand pseudo smart phones are back at Verizon, this time sporting an M appendage to their names and what looks like better pricing across the board, the Kin ONEm will set you back a cent under 20 $ with a two year contract whereas the TWOm costs just under 50 $ but it is also subject to buy one get one free offer. Some of readers will remember the Microsoft Kin one and Kin two smart... Read More »

Microsoft first came in 1975 from a partnership between Gates and Allen. They started Microsoft with a huge vision with a dream for desktop at every home. They started working on the first version of new operating system. In the year 1981 a project name “Interface Manager” was started and in the year 1983 on 10th of November it was first announced to the public with the brand name as “MICROSOFT... Read More »

Microsoft Lync server 2010 is a much more natural extension of Microsoft Office and Microsoft exchange, which makes whole platform a lot easier to sell and maintain. The question facing solutions providers is just how to deploy it, they can either deploy it on their customer’s website or host it has a cloud computing service, Microsoft would not get around to hosting Lync server 2010 in the cloud... Read More »

Windows Phone 7 is a mobile phone operating system developed by Microsoft and its is the successor to their windows Mobile platform. Windows Phone 7 had been aimed at the consumer market alternatively the enterprise market in contrast to its predecessor, Windows phone 7 supports multiple Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) accounts. If you want to use multiple calendars from different services, then you can... Read More »

If you are using Windows Phone 7 and you would like to set up an email account on your phone like Outlook and Google, then you can also access the calendar associated with that account.  In order to create an appointment in the calendar, please follow the steps mentioned below: Step 1: Start your phone and press Calendar icon. Step 2: Now press in the Subject box and type a Subject, then press in... Read More »

The search engine giant, Google has revealed its latest addition Google Connect. Google Connect is a new plug-in from Google that anyone can be easily download and install. Released in the beta version, Google Connect is available only to a select group of testers. However, Google did not confirm when will the complete version of their new tool will be available for general public. After you install... Read More »

As reported on DigiTimes, Microsoft is planning to entail royalty fees on Taiwan-based vendors of Android handsets for using its patents in e-mail, multimedia and other functions with Acer and Asustek Computer so as to prevent these two vendors from adopting Android and Chrome OS for their netbook and tablet PCs, according to Taiwan-based makers. According to the sources, there are several Taiwan-based... Read More »