Windows Vista was supposed to be the successor to Windows XP but because of the issues with the new OS, some perceived and some real, this never materialized with adoption rates lower then expected.
With Windows 7, Microsoft had a lot to prove, both to itself, but more importantly to Microsoft customers and shareholders and with [...]
MWC 2010 event Microsoft has revealed its most rumored Windows 7 Mobile phone Series. The new Windows mobile OS is embedded with extensive features.
The interface of Windows Mobile 7 OS is much smoother and organized. The most robust feature of new Windows mobile OS is the integration with social networking tools, Xbox Live, and Zune.
Microsoft [...]
Microsoft will announce tonight that Natal, a motion sensor for the Xbox video games system, will go on sale in time for the 2010 holidays.
First demonstrated at the E3 gaming conference in 2009, Natal senses gamers’ gestures and motions so they can, for example, block balls in a dodgeball video game by jumping around, or [...]
Upholding patent-infringement charges by a small Toronto firm agaist Microsoft Tuesday, a US appeals court ordered the software giant to stop selling Word by Jan 11 and pay $290 million in damages.
Microsoft said it will introduce the copies of Word 2007 and Office 2007 without the offending technology by the court-ordered deadline. Tuesday’s ruling upholds [...]
You don’t have to buy a new computer to upgrade to Windows 7. If your PC is relatively young – no older than four years, say – chances are good that Windows 7 will run just fine on it. A few pre-installation upgrades, though, may help you get the most out of Microsoft’s new operating [...]
Microsoft has now confirmed the rumours that the latest release of their Office suite 2010 will be shipping in June 2010. The biggest upgrade pull for this addition is the ability of Web Apps within the suite.
The company’s senior director for communications, Janice Kapner explained why people might use the Web Apps without a mentioning [...]
Apple fans have a new salvo to fire at their Windows-loving brethren, as a Microsoft exec has revealed that the Windows 7 operating system enjoyed some fruit-flavoured inspiration.
Microsoft’s partner group manager, Simon Aldous, has told PCR-Online, in a candid interview, that Microsoft deliberately tried to “create a Mac look and feel” with the new OS.
The [...]
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows 7 were running at twice the level of any previous version of its operating system.
Windows 7, launched a month ago, has “already sold twice as many units” than any previous version in a comparable time, said Ballmer at the software company’s annual meeting [...]
Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks.
Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft’s president of Windows and Windows Live, acknowledged that Microsoft had catching up to do. [...]
Yahoo continues to lose share in the search market, as Google and Microsoft pick up the difference.
Comscore’s measurement of the U.S. search market in October shows that Google–as usual–still dominates the search landscape. It now watches 65.4 percent of all searches pass through its servers, up 0.5 market share points from September of this year.
Yahoo, [...]
