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In article published on MSDN Blog – which was consequently very quickly deleted – was published brief information about new version OS Windows. It should be Windows 8 even though that familiarly this project is named as “Windows.next”.
» Read moreRedmond is translating Windows 7 into 10 languages from the African Continent, this is to ensure that the computer revolution penetrates the Dark Continent, connects it to the rest of the world by encouraging the use of native languages unencumbered by the limitation of French or English and end software piracy.
Windows 7 is expected to be available in the languages such as Amharic, kiSwahili, isiXhosa, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, isiZulu, Afrikaans, Setswana and Sesotho sa Leboa, by the year 2011.
Mark Matunga, the Citizenship Manager of Microsoft Eastern and South Africa stated that this move was to encourage technical access for the African people what better way than to give it in their own language and in their own frame of reference to demolish the barricade.
» Read moreHere is the story of how Redmond neutralized the Net Appliance Operating System by Google before it hit the market.
Slim is the way to be. This was the message I am taking away from all the pomp and show of the media intensive demonstration if Chrome Operating System. It seemed successful as everyone came away singing praises of the lighter, smaller desktop model which would have its base in the web instead of the machine certified to be the terminator of the MS Windows. This covers Redmond too.
It is a surety that Microsoft is enjoying the display as a means of great entertainment. After sparing with the imaginary opponent in the Chrome Operating System announced by the developers even when it was in its developmental stages Microsoft now has a concrete target to mark. And mark it, they will, with rancour.
» Read moreAccording to Microsoft, the owner of the web browser Internet Explorer, all consumers using old versions of the program were exposed to hacks.
Reports said that last Friday, a code was discovered posted in the Bugtraq mailing archives. Symantec, an internet security provider, expressed their concern about the effect of the code on a computer. They said that even though the code doesn’t work perfectly, it can still cause harm when unaccredited software is installed in one’s computer.
» Read moreMicrosoft Research India has developed a kind of compression technology which eliminates redundancy and operates like a host service in enterprise information systems avoiding the use of accelerators over a Wide Area Network.
Coconet stands for Content Compression in Networks. The developers of this system studied access network links of eleven corporate locations for a few weeks besides watching the access link of the Wisconsin University, as it students were collaborating in the said project.
» Read morePatch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of each month when Microsoft releases updates or fixes to its software. It has been recorded that the name Patch Tuesday was already in use since the last quarter of 2004. The reason why updates are lumped together to be released once a month and not right after they are packaged is to allow system administrators to mark a day in the month to prepare all computers for the patch, and this work involves backing up files, disabling network connections and other stuff required to make sure that computers will not malfunction after the fixes are installed. This may seem pretty trivial to most of us who own one or two computers, but remember, there are companies with hundreds, if not thousands of computers and updating each one of them will be really major work.
» Read moreOn Tuesday, Gizmodo published an exclusive report on an upcoming tablet project from Microsoft. Currently referred to as Microsoft Courier, the tablet brings an exciting new functionality to mobile computer users. Gizmodo makes Courier out to be a stylish, cutting-edge double screen device that functions like the most interactive day planner in the world.
The report didn’t say when, or even if, Courier would be released to stores. Microsoft is developing several tablet projects, and Courier is the one that, at the time of this writing, we know most about. It may be, with a rumored Apple tablet on the horizon and a soon-to-be-released E-reader/netbook from Asus, that the rumors of Courier will breathe life into the tablet race.
» Read moreMost of the people have already tested several versions of the Windows 7 operating system including the beta, release candidate and rtm releases of the upcoming operating system.
» Read moreWindows Vista Readyboost was a real disappointment, with the only winners flash drive manufacturers as users rushed out to but new flash drives in an attempt to get better performance.
» Read moreHotmail, the popular webmail application owned by Microsoft Corporation has been receiving a lot of complaints lately. Users griped on an unannounced removal of an often used feature of webmail, the “Attach Photo” plugin. This surprise move left many Hotmail users puzzled, some wasting hours trying to trace their steps backwards hoping to debug the issue on their own. The “Attach Photo” feature is a plugin that allows users to edit and create captions for pictures for inclusion into the email body. This nifty feature compresses the files after they are edited, allowing users to add more pictures. This function was used often by Hotmail account holders and they were exasperated when they found out that function that gave them a very easy way to customize their photo uploads was removed.
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