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When Windows Vista was first introduced, it came with a powerful defense against pirating. In fact, it was so powerful that paying customers complained when it malfunctioned, and Microsoft wound up making some big changes.
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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...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man.
The picture, showing employees sitting around a...
made popular Aug 26 2009
Microsoft’s Zune was supposed to be the company’s answer to Apple’s widely-successful iPod. Needless to say, the Zune never attracted similar...
made popular Aug 17 2009
The Eastern District of Texas on Tuesday found that Microsoft infringed on U.S. Patent 5,787,449, held by Michel Vulpe, the founder of a Canadian company called i4i...
made popular Aug 17 2009
Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc inked a 10-year Web search deal to better compete against market leader Google Inc but stopped short of combining their display advertising...
made popular Jul 30 2009
Google and Microsoft rivalry has begun long ago, where former is toiling and manipulating hard to save its search supremacy while latter is evermore anxious to take...
made popular Jul 30 2009
After being kicked around by Apple for years in the firms famous PC v. Mac commercials, Microsoft has finally hit back with its own smart ad.
The series of “I...
made popular Jul 20 2009
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Google started functioning not a very long ago, year 1996, to be precise. Not many would have thought that it will take over the web market, but it did....
made popular Jul 14 2009
Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.
Google Chrome OS will be a development of its Chrome web...
made popular Jul 9 2009
Heavy-handed and power-unchecked European Union regulators have spent so much time going after Microsoft and collecting unjustified fines from the corporation that the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Microsoft hopes to unseat Google as the internet user’s search engine of choice after spending millions of dollars to launch its new ‘Bing’ browser. The news...
made popular May 29 2009
The news on Thursday that Microsoft was launching a search engine heralded a wave of questions: was www.bing.com finally going to challenge Google’s dominance? Is a...
made popular May 29 2009
Google has long been the king of search, dominating rivals including Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. But it increasingly sees social networks such as Facebook as...
made popular May 27 2009
MICROSOFT in conjunction with the Uganda Performing Rights Society (UPRS) have nabbed Asians in Kampala with pirated computer software.
The Asians were caught during...
made popular May 27 2009
Every year, the United States governments publishes its Special 301 Report on international piracy. The list identifies the worst abusers of intellectual property and...
made popular May 6 2009
The great and courageous Microsoft has decided to play an active role in the Arab world. More than that it is adopting the language of pan-Arabism.
The software...
made popular May 4 2009
Microsoft finally allows users to remove software that they include on your system when you buy their new Operating System, Windows 7, next year. In response to the...
made popular Mar 9 2009
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Microsoft and ESAMI are today launching the first session of the ‘Schools of Government’ initiative in Arusha, Tanzania.
In a statement made...
made popular Jan 23 2009
IBM, for 16 straight years, has dominated in most patents per year. This year, they have topped off at over 4,000. IBM managed to beat out their challenger Samsung by...
made popular Jan 15 2009
Windows 7 will be released tomorrow and only 2.5 million downloads available. I bet you are asking how can I get it and where. Well, it is quite simple really.
1) You...
made popular Jan 15 2009
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Here is a useful procedure to help you get into your PC a little easier than going through safe mode, if you’ve forgotten your password. I’ve got this...
made popular Jun 19 2008
If you have been having the same problem as me with FF3, then this is the place to find the answer. After constantly getting an error message for downloading some...
made popular Jun 19 2008
If you have ever had a bug that disables your Task Manager so you can’t close out of anything, this is something you ought to try out. I have actually run into a...
made popular Jun 18 2008
If you are running a slower connection or just don’t care for these images, then there is an easy way to disable them. Follow the steps, and you won’t see...
made popular Jun 18 2008
Just like my last article on disabling GIF animation in Firefox, this one is for Opera users. It is a little bit easier for you all, and takes only seconds.
1) Open...
made popular Jun 18 2008
If you are ever in need of changing your registry, then you should always back it up before you do that. He is a quick and simple way to do that and cover your...
made popular Jun 16 2008
If you have ever downloaded a bunch of programs that seem to keep adding onto your right click menu, well I have. So I did some poking around in the registry and found...
made popular Jun 16 2008
To view how long your computer has been running, for fun, you can use the following steps.
1) Click Start
2) Click Run (Type: cmd)
3) In command Prompt (Type:...
made popular Jun 16 2008
Had enough of Windows\’ shenanigans? I\’ll show you how to print elegant folder lists, dispatch Balloon Tips and annoying icon wizards, and copy files that...
made popular Jun 5 2008
The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux.
made popular May 17 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended XP’s shelf-life, several new and improved features available in Vista...
made popular May 14 2008
When people hear I work with computers, their first question is always “My Computer Runs So Slow! How Can I Speed Up My Computer?” Here are some tips and...
made popular Mar 4 2008
Microsoft has been riddled with law suits filed by various companies that programs bundled along with its popular desktop operating systems have compromised them and...
made popular Jun 20 2007
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Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer answers a question from the audience at the Microsoft 2008 MVP Global Summit MVP event from Canada in Seattle in this April 17, 2008, file photo. Ballmer offered a glimmer of hope on Thursday, April 24, 2008, to fans of the..
