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Browser wars: Firefox 3.5 beats Internet Explorer 7

Andy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:45:53 +0000

We know that Firefox’s market share has been steadily increasing, but an interesting statistic from a leading web stats company (StatCounter) shows that Firefox 3.5 has overtaken Internet Explorer 7 for the first time. Results vary from...

Bing App Comes to iPhone and iPod Touch

Vikram Deo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:38:00 +0000

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, which is doing pretty good is now available for iPhone as well as iPod Touch. Its a free app that’s available in the App store in iTunes or you can also go to m.bing.com from your iPhone or iPod Touch...

MSN on iPhone? Use a generic IM app and keep Microsoft off your handset!

Andy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:00:49 +0000

I hold my hands up and admit it: I don’t keep Microsoft software on my Mac. I succumbed for a short while and used a crappy outdated version of Microsoft Office on an old iBook I’d inherited, but other than that I’m MS...

Lumino building blocks let Microsoft Surface recognize 3D

Bharat — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:42:09 +0000

Yes, touchscreens a devised to work only with direct contact. Still, we’ve seen Microsoft Surface recognizing physical objects before, but with the Luminos, developed by patrick baudisch, torsten becker and frederik rudeck of Hasso...

Windows 7 compatibility list, to keep your PC safe from malacious apps

Gaurav Sood — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:58:32 +0000

Microsoft has released a Windows 7 compatibility list which has all the software and applications certified by Microsoft to run with Windows 7 (both 32 bit and 64 bit versions). This comes as a move to assist IT professionals and the common man...

How Windows 7 start-up animation came to life

Gaurav Sood — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:16:02 +0000

The Windows 7 animation that you see during the boot phase, where four colored swirling balls of light transform into the Windows 7 logo, is the design of Rolf Ebeling. He just had a stint of four months with Microsoft when he was given the task...

360Live iPhone app to manage your Xbox Live account

Gaurav Sood — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:43:22 +0000

Now you can manage your Xbox live account right from your iPhone with a newly released app 360 Live. The app has loads of options to tweak around with your gamer profile, see game-scores, organize friend’s list, send or receive messages and...

Family Guy's binned Windows 7 episode clips online

Seamus Byrne — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Filed under: Entertainment, Video So there was this episode of Family Guy, right. And Microsoft paid them to do it all about how wonderful Windows 7 is, see. Then Microsoft saw it and discovered Family Guy isn’t exactly ‘family...

It’s time to ditch IE6 and IE7 for a pretty good reason

Gaurav Sood — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:31:28 +0000

For Internet Explorer and Microsoft, it’s getting embarrassing for their own good. A few days back it was the hilarious glitch; how IE6 was unable to open the parent Microsoft website, with elements all over the place. But this time the bug is...

Microsoft Bans 1 Million X-Box Live Players

Marco Villa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:14:06 +0000

Microsoft has suspended the subscriptions of 1 million X-Box Live users after it was discovered that they modified their consoles in order to illegally download games from file-sharing networks. X-Box Live is the online,...