March 5, 2010 5:31 am by Jal
When you step into a race much later when your competitor has already made considerable benchmarks, you need to be highly innovative and an excellent strategist to catch people’s eyeballs. And Bing is doing precisely that.
Considering the mass hysteria created by Farmville, a web based game on Facebook, Microsoft thought it wise to promote Bing on Farmville by luring its users free virtual ‘cash’, supposedly quite a ‘valuable’ asset in the game. This resulted in 80 million users to see the big ‘Bing’ logo on their virtual farms.
The banner read ‘Become a fan of Bing now and get FREE Farm Cash’.
The idea was not only unique, it proved to be a massive hit. The number of fans on Bing’s Facebook page rose from a few lacs to millions and counting. Yes, the thing has gone viral. So, if you are running out of Farmville cash (or whatever) you know what you need to do, right?
PS: I hate Farmville. Never played it. Never will. Period.
November 13, 2009 5:28 am by Jal
Instead of exploring new things all the time, sometimes I dig into what I have already got and I always come up with something new. Very few of us might know that Microsoft also offers lots of free games to its users. ‘The Games’ section in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is often listed in the feature lists but rarely anyone plays the games offered. And if you have checked the link in the ‘Game providers’ subsection lately, then you will find that Microsoft now offers 100+ free games to its users. So if you think you’ve had enough of solitaire and minesweeper, I’d say you do the following:
Click Start 
> Games. In the ‘Game Providers’ subsection, click ‘More Games from Microsoft’.
Alternatively, you can click here: Microsoft "Play Your Game"
And guess what, that’s it. Just click “Play Now” button to play your favorite games. You can also download trial versions of these games. Enjoy!
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October 25, 2009 4:37 am by Jal
It’s October 2009 and Microsoft has already released Windows 7 a few days ago. People all over the world has embraced the new operating system but there are some who are still nostalgic about the operating system that ruled the world for 7+ years – Windows XP. Apart from all the good things that Windows XP had, it had those really beautiful games which you grew up playing them. Now we are on a highly advanced OS called Windows 7 which has the super stylized version of games that featured on Windows XP. But here is your chance to play the same old versions of Windows XP games on Windows 7 without much hassles.
The thing that makes this task easy is the simplicity with which these small applications (like games) were incorporated into Windows XP. In Windows XP, such applications need just an executable file and a dll file to run. Here I am going to show you how you can play the Windows XP version of Solitaire in Windows 7. You can use this method to play other Windows XP games.
Windows XP Solitaire in Windows 7:
You’ll need: Two PCs, one running Windows XP and other, Windows 7 and a USB flash drive.
1) Plug in the USB flash drive in Windows XP machine and navigate to this folder:
C:\Windows\System32
2) Copy and paste the files ‘sol.exe’ and ‘cards.dll’ from the System32 folder to the USB flash drive and safely remove the flash drive.
3) Insert the flash drive in the Windows 7 machine and store both the files in a folder on the local hard disk.
4) Run ‘sol.exe’ and there you are! Enjoy the Windows XP version of Solitaire in Windows 7.
As I mentioned earlier, you can follow this method to play other Windows XP games but I leave that upon you. Enjoy!
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