Category: Microsoft

  • Majel: Google’s Response to Siri? Early 2012 Release?

    Since Apple’s iPhone 4S launch, everyone has been talking about one awesome feature: Siri. This feature was the first of its real kind of piece of software using normal talking language. We had many voice command software before, just like Microsoft’s Tellme, open source, commercial software, but Siri lit a fire. Even though Siri is…

  • Windows Phone 7 Gets Its Own Cydia Like Store – Bazaar [How To Guide]

    Microsoft is doing decently good with their recently launched Windows Phone 7.5 platform. I had a chance to test some of its exciting features on Samsung Focus i917. Just like Apple’s iOS App Store alternative for jailbreakers – Cydia, Windows Phone 7 users get an alternative apps distribution platform to Windows Market Place, known as…

  • Silverlight 5 Available for Download. This Could Be The Last Version

    Microsoft today announced the release of Silverlight 5. Silverlight is part of a rich offering of technologies from Microsoft helping developers deliver applications for the web, desktop and mobile devices.     From the MSDN blog, new features in Silverlight 5 include – New features in Silverlight 5 include Hardware Decode of H.264 media, which…

  • Bill Gates Coming Back To Microsoft? Investors Not Happy With Steve Ballmer?

    Is the founder and Chairman of Redmond giant Microsoft coming to the company he founded? This news could be true soon if investor gossip is considered by board of members.     According to a report on CNN Money, the company’s stock price has been a thorn in Steve Ballmer’s side for a decade. At…

  • Siri versus Microsoft’s Tellme. Siri is Indeed Miles Ahead

    Now that everybody are excited about Apple’s new Siri feature, Microsoft have been talking a lot over the past couple of days about the not so popular feature in Windows Phone 7 known as Microsoft Tellme. The research office from Microsoft told Forbes recently that Microsoft has had similar technology on its Windows Phone platform…

  • What Did Steve Jobs Say About Microsoft, Google, Facebook? [Video]

    “They just don’t get it” – That’s how Steve Jobs described his digital rivals Microsoft and Google in an interview with his biographer Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs: A Biography which is released today already in the number one place in Amazon’s charts (in all three Biography & History, Business, Technology categories).   In CBSNews’ 60…

  • You Can Make And Receive Calls From Windows 8?

    Surely, Metro UI style in Windows 8 is real treat for PC users. Microsoft is currently building a number of innovative applications for Windows 8. Even though many of the apps are not currently available in Windows 8 Developer Preview, the software giant is expected to ship them in its Beta edition. These apps could…

  • How To Install Windows 8 on a Virtual Machine

    Now that Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer Preview build officially this Tuesday, want to see and test all new features right from your machine without disturbing existing operating system? Read on.. Interesting part about Windows 8 is that Microsoft is foreseeing an OS that scales right from small form factors, tablets and all the way…

  • Google Says Apple and Microsoft Illegally Killing Android

    The mobile sphere has become increasingly competitive over the last few years with giants coming into the platform. In an official blog post from Google, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond believes recent actions from Microsoft and Apple indicate a partnership of sorts bound with the common bond of stopping Android’s fast…

  • WP7 Mango Developers Can Submit Apps from August

    Microsoft today announced a revamped developer App Hub portal for Windows Phone 7. Additionally, Windows Phone 7 Mango Developers can start submitting their applications from this August. This gives a hint that WP7 Mango handsets are set to release in either August or September. Mango is the next version of Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft…