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Microsoft

Somewhere in Russia: Internet Explorer 9 interface leaked

August 26, 2010

As of now, Microsoft has released 4 ‘platform previews’ of the upcoming browser Internet Explorer 9 that showcased some of the highly anticipated features backed up by super efficient Javascript engine named ‘Chakra’ and latest standards like HTML5 and CSS3. But, until now, major UI elements in those builds were mostly missing. We can suspect [...]

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New Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 is here – finally!

July 31, 2010

Not that I really care about this, but Microsoft did roll out the Live Hotmail Wave 4 afterall. It’s been a long wait for Hotmail fans but now they can ride the all new Hotmail. Here is a video showing the new features implemented in the new Hotmail. Currently I am checking out what’s in [...]

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Windows 8: What’s in store for you!

June 29, 2010

Last year Microsoft released its flagship product Windows 7 and it’s been doing really great. And by great I mean seven Windows 7 copies are being sold every second. Amidst all the excitement, Microsoft mistakenly leaked some docs that shows the anatomy of the new version of Windows – Windows 8. Currently the information is [...]

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Microsoft Kinect sensor for Xbox 360 priced at $149.99

June 23, 2010

Soon after Microsoft unleashed Kinect (formerly Project Natal), tons of blogs and websites came up with its expected price hovering mostly around $150. Yesterday, Kinect sensor for Xbox made its official entry to the Microsoft Store and is indeed priced at $149.99. However, there is a note that says the prices are subjected to change. [...]

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Live Hotmail Wave 4: Should you bother?

June 21, 2010

I’d say No. Yes, that was my answer when I first created a Hotmail account 10 years ago and it is the same now. It’s been around half a year since we are hearing about the Live Wave 4. There has been a lot of talk all around the internet and Microsoft did roll out [...]

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Microsoft’s Project Natal likely to be unleashed Oct 26th with $149 price tag

May 27, 2010

Recently we did a post about a seemingly fake site offering pre-orders for Microsoft’s Natal. There we even quoted what might be the actual price tag of the same. Turns out, our estimate was right – Yes, Microsoft’s Project Natal is likely to be released on Oct 26th with $149 price tag for the stand-alone [...]

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Internet Explorer 9 to support VP8 (and hence, WebM)!

May 20, 2010

Seems like Microsoft doesn’t want to mess up on anything with IE9 by making it as much compliant with the web standards. After CSS3 and HTML5, it’s VP8 to get Microsoft’s support. And this really matters because Internet Explorer has a significant user base and IE9 is going to be huge. For those who don’t [...]

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Pre-order Natal Now!… Oh wait!

May 17, 2010

Without beating about the bush, let me just put my shock and awe into words. A Swedish site, WebHallen has already started allowing people to pre-order the Microsoft’s Project Natal device for about $200. A Twitter user, Dovella, first pointed this out. Now let me tell you folks, if this were Ebay or Amazon, I [...]

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Windows Live Wave 4: No support for XP

April 23, 2010

Windows XP users, (sigh), you reading this? Don’t you think it’s about time you must leave the sinking boat and upgrade to a bigger, nicer boat – Windows 7? Well, sooner or later you’ll have to because Microsoft is really have no pity left for XP users now. First it was the official end-of-support for [...]

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Download Silverlight 4 now!

April 16, 2010

The much anticipated Silverlight 4 has been launched some minutes ago and now you can download its Windows and Mac runtimes. For those who don’t know, Silverlight is a platform for creating and experiencing top-notch interactive web, desktop and mobile applications. Silverlight 4 is claimed to bring in even better support and interactivity for multiple [...]

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