Microsoft Reveals What Windows Vista SP1 Offers
With the first release candidate of Windows Vista SP1 just a few days away, Microsoft is now finally opening up and revealing what can be expected in the first service pack to Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows Vista. Simply put, Windows Vista SP1 will add tons of added hardware compatibility, loads of compatibility, better system reliability, and Ofcourse better performance and better energy saving for laptops etc.. The standalone installer will come in at about 450MB, but if you were to download Service Pack 1 through Windows Update, it would... Read The Rest →
Reliance Partners with Microsoft to Introduce IPTV in India
A Lot of Indians have been waiting for ages for IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) to be introduced in India, but finally the wait is now Over. Reports have surfaced regarding a partnership of Reliance Communication and Microsoft to introduce IPTV in India Reliance Communication will invest about US$ 500 Million in this joint venture. IPTV will first be launched in Mumbai and then Delhi by 2008. IPTV is a technology that makes TV interactive and enabled the user to connect their Internet to TV. Thus you can record programme, as... Read The Rest →
Microsoft Comes up with a Google Gears Competitor
Well Microsoft has finally come up with a product that potentially looks like a competitor to Google Gears that was launched earlier this year. Dubbed as Microsoft Sync Framework it will help developers take their web services and Databases offline to work in an environment without being connected to the internet. The Framework will offer P2P synchronization of any file type, including contacts, music, videos, images and settings, and provides built-in support for synchronizing relational databases, NTFS/FAT file systems an RSS feeds. According to Microsoft, “The advantage of a synchronization-based... Read The Rest →
Windows Update Brings Thousand's of PC's to a Standstill
The latest series of Windows Updates have wrecked thousand’s of PC’s worldwide bringing them to a standstill. A lot of server administrators are furious over Microsoft for doing this and preventing the job from being done for the companies meaning higher expenses for them. Well this time around Microsoft decided to automatically install a resource hungry application called Window’s Desktop Search on computers worldwide. This slowed down corporate networks bringing the network to a standstill. What is more important is that all this happened even though administrators had configured their... Read The Rest →
Zune 2 Software Leaked in Windows Update
It looks like the guys over at Microsoft are having a hard time reading this blog. In the past couple of days I have been writing about hacks or leaks about Microsoft software. Well this one just adds to the list. Well a guy called JJRules over at Zunerama Forums got his hand into the next update of Zune Software. He Writes “As part of Windows Updates on my laptop today, I installed an optional update called “Driver Update for Zune USB.” It actually installed a pre-release version of the... Read The Rest →
Windows Home Server OEM Leaked
Well the file sharers have done it again. The OEM version of Windows Home Server has been leaked on BitTorrent and is now available on all major Torrent search engines. Well I’m not going to point out the direct links to the torrent files here, but if you are really interested then you can search for the leaked version all by yourself. Trust me, its not that difficult. Well all you need to do is search for Windows Home Server on any torrent search engine like Demonoid, Mininova, PirateBay etc..... Read The Rest →
Download IE7 Legally From Microsoft
Well Microsoft has removed WGA Validation for IE7 Installs, allowing users to download and upgrade IE from IE6 to IE7. By Removing the requirement for WGA Validation, I’m sure Microsoft is looking for deeper penetration into the browser market. The IE7 Browser will be available from today on Windows Update for Windows XPSP2, x64 Server and Windows 2003 Server.
Windows Vista to Get Internet TV
Microsoft is up on its heels again and plans to release the Internet TV addon for the Vista Media Center. All the existing users of Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate should get updates early tomorrow that would give them Internet TV on their Vista PC. The Initial Offering would include over 100 Hours of free content, that would include some of the following : Full episodes of TV shows such as the critically acclaimed “Arrested Development” Full-length music concerts by artists such as Chris Cornell, Snoop Dogg, Elton John, Pink,... Read The Rest →
MS Office 2008 for Mac OS X : Preview
Microsoft is getting to release the Microsoft Office Suite for Mac Users very soon . The Mac version of the Office Suite is scheduled to be released in January 2008, but the Office team has started to post some amazing videos showcasing the UI of the upcoming Office Suite for Mac. As far as I can see Microsoft has taken the best of both the worlds by taking the best features of the Ribbon UI and the uniform design that we see throughout Mac OSX. While not much is... Read The Rest →
OpenOffice 2.3.0 is Now Available
OpenOffice.org one of front runners of the Open Source Office Alternatives is gearing up to launch its next major upgrade to the OpenOffice family on the 17th of September. While there is still a couple of days to go before the official launch, you can download the final build of OpenOffice 2.3.0 from the FTP site of OpenOffice. The Latest release contains a lot of bug fixes and added features that make OpenOffice one of the best open source Office suites out there. Some of the features that will make... Read The Rest →
