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66% Of Google Users Would Use Bing – Survey Paid For By Microsoft

December 7, 2009

A survey, paid for by Microsoft, shows that if you’re a Google user and tries out Bing, there’s a 66% chance you will stick with Bing for your future Internet searching needs. How was the study conducted? Well, 15 Google users were told not to use any other search engine than Bing, for a whole [...]

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Craving For A Huge Windows 7 Whopper? Visit Japan!

October 23, 2009

Microsoft did not exactly throw any big parties to celebrate the release of Windows 7, but they have however come up with a few things such as opening a Coffee shop in Paris and a a Microsoft Store in Scottsdale, Arizona. Unlike the Microsoft Store, the coffee shop is only intended to be open for [...]

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Friday Flick Find: Microsoft App Lab & Apple On Windows 7′s Broken Promises

October 23, 2009

I think it’s safe to say that we’re in a “Microsoft week” this week, with the release of Windows 7 and the Windows 7 Whopper, Bing getting Twitter and Facebook search indexing access and probably a whole lot more that I didn’t pay attention to since I’m more to the other side of the force [...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5: All The New Features

October 12, 2009

Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 didn’t exactly win any prizes when it was released last week, but it does have some visual changes and new features you can enjoy, while you wait for Windows Mobile 7 to be released sometime next – here’s a list: Features MSN Widget (real-time weather, sports, etc.) Facebook Mobile MySpace Mobile [...]

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Windows Mobile 7: RTM Spring 2010, ETA Few Months Later

October 12, 2009

Windows Mobile 6.5 barely hit the streets before new rumors are saying that Windows Mobile 7, which is said to be a whole new user experience, is going to be RTM (Release To Manufacturing) during Spring 2010. The picture (to the right) shows a slide from a presentation of Microsoft Office 2010 and at the [...]

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Microsoft Shows “Minority Report” Look-Alike Office Wall

October 12, 2009

Microsoft Research just showed a prototype of how our office walls might look like in the future, based on their Microsoft Surface thoughts – having surfaces around us become part of our lives. The system is based on cameras, microphones and touchscreens and works a lot like the systems you would have seen in movies [...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5 Released Today – It Doesn’t Look Good

October 6, 2009

Windows Mobile has received a ton of negative criticism over the years, though there’s still some faithful users of Windows Mobile, the rest of the world seems to have moved over to Symbian, iPhone, Android and webOS. And to be honest, Windows Mobile seems really old and clumsy to use compared to other modern mobile [...]

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Over 10,000 Hotmail User Logins Leaked On Pastebin

October 5, 2009

A list of over 10,000 usernames and passwords for Microsoft Live ID was leaked October 1st on the web site pastebin.com which is a tool for collaborative debugging and editing, usually for developers to paste code snippets etc. to share with others. The list was later removed but is said to include usernames starting with [...]

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Microsoft Opens The (Perhaps) Largest Data Center In The World

October 1, 2009

Last month Apple announced they are looking to spend one billion U.S. dollars to build a gigantic 45,000 square meters data center in North Carolina, this week Microsoft invited selected reporters, customers and partners to see their new data center. This new data center, which is located near Chicago, is 65,000 square meters with room [...]

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Bing Rings In At 10% Market Share – Google At 64%

September 16, 2009

Microsoft has bet big on their new search engine, Bing, and it seems to be the right move, according to a study into the U.S. search market. Bing had 1.1 billion searches in August, an increase of 22.1% compared to July. This gives Microsoft a market share of 10.7% of all searches. There is still [...]

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Winmail.dat Fix: Letter Opener 3 For Apple Mail & Snow Leopard Released

September 8, 2009

One thing that Mac users most likely will encounter sooner or later in their Mac career, is receiving an e-mail from somebody with a file called “winmail.dat”. If you’re not at all tech savvy you might not even pay attention to the file or you may just wonder what it is – a virus perhaps? [...]

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Upgrade Your IE 6 to Internet Explorer 8 And Feed 16 People

September 1, 2009

Microsoft wants more people to use their latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, and so far several TV commercials for the browser has aired. Microsoft has since June elected to donate food for eight people for each time a person downloads Internet Explorer 8 via their Browser For The Better campaign. During September, they double that [...]

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Top 5 Myths About Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter

August 29, 2009

Don’t you just love myths? Some of them are funny, some of them are hard to believe are not really true and some of them are just…. weird!! One of the best websites ever, HowStuffWorks, has a whole section dedicated to tech myths. Below are my favorite top 5 tech myths about Apple, Google, Microsoft, [...]

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Microsoft Turned A Black Guy Into A Black Guy With A White Head

August 26, 2009

The original image in this advertisement from Microsoft targeted at IT professionals, shows an Asian man, a black man and a white woman at a meeting. That’s all good, for an ad in the US. But when the same ad goes to Poland, the black guy apparently had to leave his head back home as [...]

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More Than Half Of The Microsoft Xbox 360 Breaks

August 20, 2009

Xbox 360 is a bittersweet success for Microsoft. Although the machine is the second most selling and so far keeps up with the very hyped Playstation 3, the cost has been high. First there was the Red Ring Of Death (RROD) issue, when a hardware failure meant that virtually all of the Xbox’ had to [...]

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Have You Gone Google, yet?

August 4, 2009

Despite being one of the most known companies in the world, Google just launched an ad campaign with 4 massive billboards along freeways around San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and New York. The ad claims that 1.75 million companies already made the switch to Google Apps which allows them to avoid software upgrade costs and other [...]

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Microsoft Sees First Drop In Windows Sales – Ever!

July 27, 2009

Microsoft just released their quarterly financial statement which shocked a lot of analysts and investors. For the first time ever, Microsoft sees a drop in their sales of Windows compared to the year before. Meanwhile the turnover also dropped by 17% in the 4th quarter of the year. As a result, Microsoft stock went down [...]

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Office 2010: The Movie – Trailer From Microsoft

July 13, 2009

I hate to admit it, but Microsoft finally launched one fine commercial. It’s a “trailer” for the Office 2010 Movie. It even features “Clippy” the Office Assistant, that most of you probably remember from the good ol’ days. I don’t want to spoil the fun, so check out the YouTube video below – this is [...]

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