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Microsoft® and Nokia® partnership
On February 11, 2011, Nokia and Microsoft announced a joint venture regarding their future developmental strategies. Nokia is considered one of the best mobile hardware makers in the world. The company’s devices are famous for their excellent screen, high resolution cameras and other high end hardware designs. The Nokia products with their attractive, well designed and durable hardware designs can... Read More »
Microsoft® launches ie6countdown website
Microsoft has launched the website, www.ie6countdown.com, to encourage users of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) to upgrade to the latest version of the web browser. With the announcement by Microsoft of planning to do away with IE6 and the launch of a countdown for the old version of the browser, Internet Explorer 9 will have better positioning.
internet Explorer 6 is a very popular browser in China, South... Read More »
Windows® Live Messenger for Facebook® Chat
Microsoft has integrated Windows Live Messenger with Facebook chat. Recently, Microsoft declared on a blog post that nearly eighteen million people have been connected with Facebook chat through Windows Live Messenger. These people have now accumulated more than 2.8 billion minutes of Facebook chat. Microsoft briefed that four hundred forty million sessions of chatting between Facebook and Windows... Read More »
Microsoft® patches Windows® and Internet Explorer®
In February 2011, Microsoft issued three bulletins related to the Internet Explorer (IE) security based patches for each week. These bulletins address 22 security vulnerabilities. MS11-003 carries updates related to 4 vulnerabilities. Also included is a fix for the bug that is outlined in the Microsoft advisory. This is a bug that could give outsiders access to a person’s settings.
Focused on this... Read More »
Yahoo!® accepts Google™ and Facebook® account logins
Last year, Yahoo! started using the Bing search engine of Microsoft to power its search results. According to recent reports, Yahoo! will now allow you to sign in with the user IDs and passwords of Facebook and Google accounts. For enabling this, the OpenID authentication protocol will be used. Analysts say that the move from Yahoo! is to increase its number of users by simplifying the login process.... Read More »
Intel® is not worried about the move of Microsoft® towards ARM processors
Intel has announced that it is not worried over the move of Microsoft to port Windows to ARM processors. An Intel spokesperson said that Intel will be able to provide low power Windows which can match with the Atom processor or x86 processor family chipsets.
Intel’s Executive Vice President Dadi Perlmutter also stated that by the time Microsoft manages to get a new version of Windows as an operating... Read More »
ChevronWP7 Will Not Work On Next Version Of Windows® Phone 7
Microsoft is contemplating of blocking ChevronWP7 which permitted customers to unlock any sort of retails device of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) for side loading of application defying the payment criterion of 99 dollar per year for the marketplace account of WP7. The update will introduce the copy and paste features among other improvements. As per ChevronWP7 team, Chevron WP7 unlocking mechanism is still... Read More »
Microsoft® Silverlight integration for Windows®
Several web browsers are nowadays available to surf the Internet with great ease. With the advancements in web technologies, it has become quite easy to watch videos or listen music online. Various websites provide support for playing games online. The advancement of such capabilities of web browsers is due to the background coding. If you connect your web browser to Internet it updates the necessary... Read More »
Microsoft® OneNote Mobile application for iPhone®
OneNote Mobile for iPhone is now available on the App Store. The application requires iOS 4.2 or later and a Windows Live ID. This is not the first Microsoft application for iOS. However, this is the first time that a component of the Office suite is available on another platform than Microsoft, because OneNote is not yet available on Mac. OneNote provides an opportunity to create text notes, as well... Read More »
Proposed alliance between Nokia® and Microsoft®
The 2010 results of the Finnish cell phone company Nokia show that low cost mobile phones were a major contributor to its sales. It enjoys a comfortable position in the sales of lower end smartphones costing a little over 100 Euros. A major chunk of the profit came from the devices and services unit or from handset sales. With a change in the head of the company Nokia is expected to change all this... Read More »
Mac® OS X™ 10.6.6 Boot Camp removes Windows® XP support
Apple is an America company which manufactures electronic goods, computer OS, software and applications. Mac OS X is an operating system that was developed by Apple. Apart from Mac OS X, Apple is also popular for products such as iPhone, iPod and many more.
Basically Mac stands for Macintosh. Mac OS X is secure, powerful and yet easy to use with its customizable graphical user interface. Support for... Read More »
Microsoft® Windows® Multi-Point Server 2011
In a network, several computers are connected to a server. The working of the server can be easily understood as follows. Servers are like a data base of different web pages. The moment you send a request for a particular webpage, it reaches to the specific server and from there the server sends a webpage after extracting the data base of all the servers. All the tasks are done in such a systematic... Read More »
Windows® Phone 7 update
It is true that nowadays most of the people who are going for purchasing phones whether it is Nokia or Samsung, they always want the phone to have the most updated hardware and along with that the OS would be updated too. In several cases it was seen that most of the phones manufactured by Nokia were actually being run by the Symbian OS. This was a major problem with the phones because then most of... Read More »
Citrix® XenDesktop Agent for Windows® 7
XenDesktop is a server virtualization application which brings a great amount of efficiency to IT infrastructure. XenDesktop is useful for security measures since it has the advantage of using thin clients as terminals. Migrating one conventional environment with the XenDesktop, you may require repositioning existing firewall or adding new perimeter firewalls. Suppose you have a perimeter firewall... Read More »
Hotmailâ„¢ launches multiple aliases for e-mail accounts
Microsoft is aware about the fact that people are using multiple e-mail accounts and it desires to make the process easier. On 3rd February, Hotmail has launched a new type of feature, which allows people to create multiple e-mail accounts, which can be replied to, and managed from one’s everyday inbox for e-mail. These additional types of e-mail addresses may be had in the manner like signing up... Read More »
Microsoft®: Update glitch hit 10% of Windows® Phone 7 (WP7) users
It is very important to update software so as to get the latest version with new features. When the Windows Phone 7 operation system was launched, it was thought to be the latest and flawless version. But it also requires an update so that it performs in a better way.
Software need to be updated at regular intervals. After the launch of the Windows Phone 7 operating system, there is news coming from... Read More »
Microsoft® WebMatrix released; utility for users unclear
Microsoft is the largest software developer and recently it has started a new service call WebMatrix. It is a very useful tool for web developers. As per Microsoft reports, it will make using these tools easier by simplifying the integration of various services, coding and databases.
Now the question is why developers need these services. Apporv Durga, an analyst with Real Story Group told us that... Read More »
Windows® Phone 7 update may be delayed
Microsoft is facing issues related to their Windows Phone 7 operating system for mobile phones. Although, Microsoft is regarded as the inventor of tablets, with their very early presentations and offerings, many, many years ago, when neither Apple nor any other known international player had even thought of tablets, Microsoft appears nowhere near staging a comeback or providing an alternative to any... Read More »
Internet TV devices: A comparison
The CES 2011 demonstrated several products and technologies for gadget geeks, book publishers, entertainment providers, computer manufacturers, smartphone manufacturers, TV manufacturers, gaming manufacturers and more. The one most common product used by billions of people around the world, the TV, is also getting an interesting transformation with the interfacing of the same with the Internet.
According... Read More »
Windows® Phone 7 data-uploading issue
Windows Phone 7 is the mobile operating system launched by Microsoft in the U.S. in October last year. Recently, an unexplained data upload trouble on some Windows Phone 7 devices by a few users was brought to notice. Users complained of some irregular data use that endangered to inflate users’ mobile phone bills.
Microsoft acknowledged the existence of problems in Windows 7 Phone that caused... Read More »
Microsoft® pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces
When Kinect was brought in by Microsoft, the handheld controllers for human voice commands and gestures were done away with. But now in a reversal, Microsoft wants that not just Kinect, but also Kinect-like interfaces to be used for games and other products. In other words, it is Microsoft’s opinion that natural user interfaces like Kinect should not be simply restricted to video games.
The officials... Read More »
Microsoft® Update Trims USB AutoRun for Security
In today’s globalized world the competition to be the best is increasing day by day. The software industry is also striving to achieve the highest level. This enables the role of security of data at vivid levels; it could be enterprise or any individual. Any data that is transferred or sent to any client is generally sent through a network. It is very necessary that the channel or network used for... Read More »
Windows® Phone Marketplace Hits 9000 Apps
Modern developments in smartphone have created a benchmark in the industry of technology. People are opting smartphones than normal cell phones these days due to numerous features and firmware updates. The change in technology is helping the consumer to get more out of the simple cell phone. Firstly, the software market was limited for computers and now the market has diversified itself and now it... Read More »
Microsoft® Windows® 7 SP1 RTM
It’s almost one year, since Microsoft has launched its latest operating system Windows 7. Windows 7 includes many changes in graphical user interface, applications and utilities. These are the upgraded functionalities, which are not available in the earlier versions of operating systems from Microsoft. After making such major upgradation to the Windows operating system, there are still some bugs.... Read More »
Microsoft® disables AutoRun on Windows® XP and Windows® Vista to prevent malware infections
Autorun is an in built feature of Windows that routinely runs a program made distinct by the’autorun.inf’ file whenever a CD-ROM, USB or DVD is plugged into a computer that is Windows-based. Autorun automatically starts any installer when a media that is removable is inserted into the computer drive. Autorun has, however, become a major security risk with the increase in the number of... Read More »
