Microsoft is demoing some cool prototypes on this year’s annual Research Event TechFest 2010. Let’s have a sneak peak at the Top Three  ones. The first one, Mobile Surface, was made public but later pulled offline, but its still available in the cache: 1. Mobile Surface: Microsoft finally realized the concept of Read further »

Windows Phone 7 series brought a sigh of hope for Windows Mobile fans. Microsoft claimed that in order to maintain standards, they would enforce ,minimum hardware to run Windows Phone 7 series. But the tight hardware spec means that Windows Mobile 6.5 devices – including HTC’s just-launched HD2 – can’t be upgraded. HTC HD2 is a great touchscreen Smartphone, despite the point that HD2 meets most of the criteria laid down in Microsoft’s ‘Chassis 1′ spec – including a 1GHz Qualcomm processor, high-res capacitive touch display, 5 Read further »

When I first migrated to Windows 7 in it’s early BETA days, I was all too excited by the new stability, UI, features and quoted Battery life improvement. But, all this came with a bad [practical] news: I saw serious reduction in battery life. The battery backup reduced from 2.5hrs to merely 1hr. I believed this was due Read further »

The Evolution and Features that can mark Success for Windows 7 – Direct X 11 from dx10 and dx9 No doubt, Windows is the best platform for Gaming. Other platforms, due to lack of proper driver support and optimizations (Linux, Mac OS); never lived upto the competition. What we mean by Best platform is: If you have a good Graphics GPU and a great Processor, you can Read further »

They say generations are getting smarter, Microsoft Research creates a Programming Language for Kids. Microsoft researcher Matt MacLaurin came up with an idea which would be considered brilliant provided Microsoft is ready to back them up. He wokeup from nowhere and realized that approach to computing has changed from what it used to be in his good old days. This realization came into the picture when he saw his kid watching mom using facebook in kitchen. He came up with a brilliant idea of creating a new developer language that would appeal to the “current generation of kids”. He designed one that would work with what Read further »

User Avatar’s are mostly driven by personal aspirations and have virtually minimum resemblance with the Real-life characteristics of the user. The Customizable avatar is what makes Internet more safe by sharing less information online. But apparently, Microsoft is taking the Concept of Avatar’s to new level. Microsoft researchers, have applied for a patent on a system that would use health records to generate avatars that closely resemble a person’s actual physical characteristics. Think of the positives and negatives. Positive: You can actually get someone to exercise :D. On the contrary certain “health conscious” girls would never show up online just to avoid sharing their Read further »

Microsoft had been having a tough time tackling  Google’s leadership in Search. In the past they have given out several offers, UI changes to attract users. Well, the battle just got a whole lot dirtier, as The Financial Times has uncovered news that Microsoft has approached several news content providers, offering them money if they opt to “de-index” their sites from Google. It all started with News content providers having a dispute with Google. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has threatened with legal action to prevent Google from “stealing” articles published in his newspapers. Read further »

Just how bad can an Internet Browser be? Internet Explorer 8 and lower showed the world that a browser can have poor underlying javascript execution engines, lack of Modern web support (HTML5, CSS3) and poor threads that render webpages sluggishly for most users. What is HTML 5 and FAQ Things are going to change, Microsoft yesterday at  PDC 09 told the world that they want to change the face IE had been living with. With IE 9 Microsoft has Read further »

The most craving Wordprocessor is finally here for Public testing. Microsoft today, on Day 2 of PDC09, has release Office 2010 Beta to public via Microsoft Download Center. It’s now open to generic public for testing and providing feedback to Microsoft. The Office 2010 will, however, go RTM in next year. Read further »

The allegations never end, who copied who, this is something common in User interfaces/Look and feel. But here comes something interesting. A Microsoft manager saying flat-out that Windows 7 copied Mac OS X. Surely, he had been misquoted. Or something. Well, Microsfot explains he didn’t mean it “that way”. Microsoft is currently holding a partner conference in Wembley Stadium, and Microsoft’s partner group manager, Simon Aldous was asked “Is Windows 7 really a much more agile operating system, in terms of the Read further »