Category: Microsoft

  • Microsoft Is Going To Launch A Tablet In A Few Hours? [Comic]

    Microsoft Is Going To Launch A Tablet In A Few Hours? [Comic]

    Microsoft is going to launch a tablet in a few hours. The Verge reports that having witnessed the popularity of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, it would appear that Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have joined forces, with an entertainment tablet. According to above sources, the Redmond giant company is set to add an Xbox 360 with a live…

  • Bill Gates On Why He Went To India Recently

    Bill Gates On Why He Went To India Recently

    There was time when Microsoft founder Bill Gates used to visit India to promote the company’s products and to engage with top authorities. Now, even after stepping down as CEO, this world’s richest man hasn’t stopped visiting, but he and his wife play the roles of philanthropists. Bill Gates was in India in the last week…

  • Microsoft Apologizes For Windows Azure Girls’ Vulgar Dance [Video]

    Microsoft Apologizes For Windows Azure Girls’ Vulgar Dance [Video]

    Somewhere in the world, Microsoft is going to fire a bunch of its Marketing team for this so called vulgar dance skit. The dance took place at an event in Norway that was intended to promote new advances in Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform. This video  has to be one of the most embarrassing attempts at corporate entertainment. Later,…

  • What You Need To Know About IPV6 Launch Day. Father of the Internet Discusses Why We Need It [Video]

    What You Need To Know About IPV6 Launch Day. Father of the Internet Discusses Why We Need It [Video]

    On June 6, 2012, the world will change and its forever. Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by tomorrow on World IPV6 launch day. To remind about this launch, Google posted a video of…

  • Microsoft Confirms $15 For Windows 8 Upgrade

    Microsoft Confirms $15 For Windows 8 Upgrade

    Along with the news about Windows 8 Release Preview download availability earlier today, Microsoft also confirmed the price details for Windows 8 upgrade. It costs only $14.99  for Windows 8 Pro edition upgrade, but only if you buy a new Windows 7 PC  between this Saturday, June 2, 2012 and Jan 31, 2013. Microsoft will offer…

  • Windows 8 Release Preview Is Now Available For Download

    Windows 8 Release Preview Is Now Available For Download

    Windows 8 Release Preview which was originally planned for the first week of June  is now available for download. This is not the final version and I would recommend only tech enthusiasts to try out on their personal computers. Release Preview is the third release as part of testing process for Windows 8. The first version…

  • Forbes: 5 CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired. Steve Ballmer Is First In The List

    Forbes: 5 CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired. Steve Ballmer Is First In The List

      Forbes listed 5 CEOs that deserve being fired. In that list, Microsoft  CEO Steve Ballmer is the “worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.” Ballmer, according to Forbes, has destroyed shareholder value and jobs at Microsoft and “singlehandedly steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets.” He’s…

  • How To Get 25GB Free Space From SkyDrive [Limited Loyalty Offer]

    How To Get 25GB Free Space From SkyDrive [Limited Loyalty Offer]

      This is an excellent takeaway from the updated version of Microsoft’s SkyDrive for a limited period of time and available exclusive to its loyalty customers. SkyDrive is Microsoft’s cloud storage service. The service itself has been available for a long time, but Microsoft is doubling-down on the service with features and enhancements designed around the…

  • Google Drive or Microsoft SkyDrive or Dropbox? Which is Right for Me?

    Google Drive or Microsoft SkyDrive or Dropbox? Which is Right for Me?

      Its cloud storage everywhere! You have your files, pictures, videos on your home or office computer that you would like to access from other locations on different devices while on the go. Or you want to maintain a copy of all your data on somewhere on the Internet as a backup so that you…

  • Official Skype App For Windows Phone Is No Longer Beta. Download Now!

    Official Skype App For Windows Phone Is No Longer Beta. Download Now!

      The long awaited video calling app, Skype for Windows Phone is now available on the Marketplace as version 1.0.  This official app was first released two months ago in February as a Beta version. The app now graduates to v 1.0. There is no real good working video calling app for Windows Phone users till…