Recent Posts Tagged With 'Microsoft'

• Microsoft adds fancy search option for Firefox

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 12:31 in Microsoft

  A microsoft add-on for Firefox lets the browser show suggested completions of a search when someone starts typing it into the search box.(Credit: Microsoft) If you had any doubts Microsoft didn't appreciate the advantages of Firefox's ability to acco...

• Imagining life after Microsoft

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 10:18 in Microsoft

  The Web is abuzz the past few days with microsoft layoffs, with a whiff of severe Microsoft vulnerability in the air. Microsoft's problems may well result from its dogmatic insistence that Vista isn't rubbish, as Gartner suggests, but that will be sm...

• Microsoft Office 14 screeshots leaked

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 22:58 in Microsoft, productivity, office, beta

  Someone get a mop, the leaks are everywhere.Several screenshots of Microsoft Office 14 - which is currently in alpha testing- have been leaked by Russian site Wzor. beta versions are scheduled to appear sometime in May with the full release slated f...

• How To Run Chrome on 64-bit Windows 7 [Windows]

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 11:08 in google, windows, Microsoft

  So you got your windows 7 64-bit running, complete with new BSODs, and now you want to install Google's chrome just to discover it doesn't work. Don't worry, because you can fix it. Just right click on the Google Chrome Icon, modify the Chrome Prope...

• Internet Explorer share drops to an all-time low (again)

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 01:24 in internet, Microsoft, browsers

  Despite some excitement generated by Windows 7, things aren't all rosy for microsoft as they continue to lose ground in the browser market. On December 1, NetApplications announced that Firefox had maintained more than a 20% share for the first tim...

• Windows 7 beta ISO the hottest download on the net?

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 12:14 in Microsoft, beta, os updates

  , the torrents for Windows 7 build 7000 have become more numerous - and extremely healthy.Pirate Bay's now has more than 5,500 seeders and more than twice that number leeching. Mininova's top two torrents have almost 6,000 seeders and 17,000 leechers...

• Windows 7 Beta ISO leaked on torrent trackers

  Posted on Sunday December 28th, 2008 at 01:23 in Microsoft, beta, os updates

  Apparently you won't even have to wait until January to get your hands on the Windows 7 Beta release as I mentioned in a previous post. That's right, there's already been an ISO file leaked to several torrent trackers.The ISO appears to contain the ...

• Windows 7 Beta to ship in early January

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 14:02 in windows, Microsoft, beta, os updates

  A number of sources were reporting a mysterious Windows 7 Beta download link that appeared on Microsoft's Windows 7 page. Of course, it would be fairly easy to screenshot a page, make a few edits, and post the doctored image as "proof," so I took th...

• Microsoft issues patch for latest IE vulnerability

  Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 13:48 in internet, Security, Microsoft, browsers

  Microsoft is acting to address concerns regarding the vulnerability that has been widely reported on since it was revealed last week. According to BetaNews there still haven't been any reported incidents involving the exploit.Even though the vulnera...

• MS Web PI provides an easy way to roll IIS, SQL, .NET

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 13:31 in internet, freeware, windows, web, Microsoft, developer

  WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installers have been around for ages, and provide an easy way for anyone to quickly set up a platform for developing web apps on their Windows desktop. If, however, you're looking to play in the Microsoft sandbox, t...

• Windows Vista Ultimate RED edition coming next week

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 20:37 in windows, Microsoft, os updates

  Microsoft is set to release the (PRODUCT) RED version of Windows Vista Ultimate on December 15th. Dell has been selling computers preloaded with this special version of the OS for a few months now, but starting next week you'll be able to to buy a st...

• Windows Vista SP2 beta now publicly available

  Posted on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at 08:02 in windows, Microsoft, beta, os updates

  It's December 5, 2008 and - as promised - Microsoft has made the Vista SP2 beta publicly available. Early adopters can install it now and take advantage of improvements like 10% better power saving, reduced resource consumption in sidebar gadgets, W...

• Intel to Vista: "I'm just not that into you."

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 05:04 in news, windows, business, Microsoft

  Windows 7 cannot come fast enough! The New York Times is reporting that Intel has decided against upgrading its 80,000 employees to Windows Vista. An Intel spokesperson told the Times that Vista is being tested and deployed in certain departments, bu...

• Windows 7 comes with an updated, oh-so-pretty calculator

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 20:23 in Microsoft, os updates

  There've been numerous reports over the weekend that Microsoft has released another test build of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista. While I tend to take leaked screenshots with a grain of salt, I'm a sucker for video - even if it doesn't s...

• Microsoft + Seinfeld = Yadda, yadda, yadda

  Posted on Thursday September 18th, 2008 at 09:22 in Microsoft

  After putting out two or three (depending on how you count them) ads that left a lot of people scratching their heads, Microsoft is apparently pulling the plug on its ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld. ValleyWag reports that Microsoft will launch ...