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Windows 8: Wish List of Features and Functions 6 Feb 2011 | 08:35 am
Windows 7 is only 10 months old, but it's never too early to glance on down the road at Windows 8. Microsoft is keeping a tight lid on any information about "Windows 8." But back in June, leaked ...
Microsoft Announces Official Support For Kinect And Windows 7 22 Jan 2011 | 10:02 pm
Last year only a couple of weeks after Kinect hit the market, a bunch of dubious hackers managed to crack the hardware and get it running on a Windows 7 machine. While the function it performed was fa...
Windows 8 Codename Jupiter Evolved, Leaked Info Outdated 11 Jan 2011 | 08:29 am
Just ahead of the first public demonstration of Windows 8, details on the new UI (codenamed Mosh) and App Model (codenamed Jupiter) of Windows 7’s successor were made available. At the end of the pas...
Microsoft Kills Office Anti-Piracy Mechanism 21 Dec 2010 | 10:00 am
Microsoft has killed off the anti-piracy mechanism designed to validate whether customers were running genuine copies of Office or not. And the Redmond company has been as quiet about the death of Of...
Download New DirectX Release 4 Dec 2010 | 08:48 pm
A new DirectX release is now available for download from Microsoft, offered by the Redmond giant just ahead of December 2010. The fresh version of theDirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer can be gra...
Chrome OS Could Replace 60% of Windows PCs, Says Google Exec 29 Nov 2010 | 03:01 am
Google vice-president for Chrome software engineering Linus Upson said in an interview with the New York Times earlier this week that 60% of Windows PCs in businesses could be replaced with machines r...
Windows 7 Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit 17 Nov 2010 | 08:25 am
Since Windows XP sp2 Microsoft makes Service Pack block tools available for organizations that would like to temporarily prevent installation of Service Pack updates through Windows Update. I wonder ...
What would a Kinectified PC look like? 7 Nov 2010 | 10:11 pm
On November 4, Microsoft began selling its Kinect sensors for Xbox at retail. Gamers — and those with a hidden inner gamer just waiting to break free without a controller — your star ship has arrived....
Common Issues when Using a Mobile Device with Your PC 30 Oct 2010 | 05:40 am
Are you using a mobile device and trying to connect it to your PC? If yes, are you getting error messages related to specific types of file extensions? While technology has improved drastically in t...
