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Thursday, September 02nd, 2010 | Author: admin

Microsoft is celebrating Release to Manufacturing of its upcoming smartphone OS – Windows Phone 7.

The final integration of Windows Phone 7 with OEM partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of WP7 internal engineering team is largely complete.

Microsoft claims that Windows .. Read Further »

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 | Author: admin

Google Maps has the user’s no.1 choice when it comes to mapping a location or finding directions. Sure their StreetView is awesome, but the latest one from Microsoft Research called Street Slide makes StreetView look inferior, under-utilizied — They missed out all the Panoramas.

Often we navigate into streets and find it hard to recognize the Buildings with the immersive  the 360 environment. Microsoft Research wants to change that. Street Slide, a research project, aggregates all the photos from 360 .. Read Further »

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Sunday, June 27th, 2010 | Author: admin

I passed out of grad college as an electronics engineer with little background of programming and luckily enough my first job involved Java/j2ee. The need of the hour was to learn it. It was hard for a month, everything after that was an love affair.

Since those old days, I simply couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that Microsoft’s Windows-based servers still exist in the market having a share as large as 20% where Linux was 65+%. Sooner I realized, easier it became to grasp  that I wasn’t  the only one troubled with it.

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Monday, June 14th, 2010 | Author: admin

Microsoft have drivent he crows Crazy with Future of Gaming: Xbox Kinect. Proceeding that, Microsoft announced a new, smaller, blacker, and shinier version of their Xbox 360 going on sale from today.

It comes in a nice, shiny black frame, and just by looking at it you can tell that it’s a lot more angular, and in a good way. On the hardware side, there are no upgrades to core system except for educed size and power consumption. Also, the new system comes with a 250GB hard drive, as well as built-in 802.11n WiFi connectivity.

This year’s Biggest Gaming Expo E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo g) wass about to kickstart, and the details of Microsoft’s Project Natal are in wild, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 motion controller has been revealed. The motion controller will be known as Kinect when it comes to market later this year.

What is Xbox Kinect?

Last year, Microsoft showcased first previews of the  new “controller-free” experience on the xbox 360. SThe controller is quiet similar to both Nintendo’s Wii controller and the .. Read Further »

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Friday, June 04th, 2010 | Author: admin

We talked about center of attraction of D8, a day ago: Steve Jobs talking Flash, Future of PCs, Google TV, Android, and he couldn’t get it wrong. However, the other Steve (Ballmer) is almost always wrong. Lets start from the iPod, then iPhone and now iPad and Android OS. Its no longer a shock to hear some baseless talks from Steve:

Microsoft has released Touch Pack for Windows 7 for anyone with Windows Touch capable devices to download.

The Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was .. Read Further »

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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 | Author: admin

We already know quite a lot about Windows Phone 7 but little was known about the OS Internals until someone got hold of Microsoft’s Documents of Windows Phone 7.

Silverlight 4 Update is now available bringing a large number of new features to the table: Out-of-browser execution, HTML support, localization, rich text features, and more.

Silverlight 4 now lets developers write apps that access your webcam, microphone, and even provide local recording features out of the box. Flash has supported them for years, but Adobe is now seeing downfall thanks to Apple.

So what that means is a typical Silverlight 4 app will be able to capture and edit voice or video and allow you to store the video locally or publish online at youtube, or even attach it to an email. This .. Read Further »

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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 | Author: admin

Microsoft and Apple share one thing in common: Birthdays. The foundation of Microsoft, and Apple’s popular Operating System: Mac OS X was laid on the same day: 24th March.

Looking back at Mac OS X

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