The much awaited popular iOS and Android platform game Angry Birds is coming now on Windows Phone 7. The news is revealed at the on-going MIX 2011 event. According to the official announcement, Xbox Live title Angry Birds will be released on 25th of May. Xbox Live was supposed to to start on April 6th but was quietly delayed for reasons unknown. Furthermore, a competent Angry Birds clone “Chicks ‘N Vixens” has stolen the attention of WP7 fans....
Microsoft has released an update recently to support the new currency symbol for the Indian Symbol for Windows. Indian government has approved a standard symbol for Indian Rupee (just like $ US dollar sign) and later Unicode Consortium assigned a Unicode to that symbol so that it can be assigned to the standard keyboards. Paper media and advertisers have started using the above symbol already. You need to use separate fonts or keyboards to actually type this symbol....
Mozilla has set a release date for the next iteration of its popular open-source browser Firefox 4 on March 22, unless there is a show-stopping bug. Last week, the company made the Release Candidate build available which includes an updated interface for all platforms that’s sleeker and easier to use. The open source outfit’s Damon Sicore confirmed yesterday that the Release Candidate build of Firefox 4 that Mozilla pushed out last week is likely to be the final test version of the browser....
Microsoft has finally killed off the Zune players because of its demand and instead will shift its focus to other devices and software. Zune is a Microsoft’s answer to Apple iPod which was introduced in 2006 and never managed to break the iPod’s grip on the music player industry. According to Bloomberg’s report yesterday, a “person familiar with the decision” has confirmed that Microsoft won’t be producing any new Zune media players, and that the company will instead focus solely on the Zune software that already has a foothold on the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone devices....
A Chinese site Win7China today managed to get hold of a few screenshots of Microsoft’s next operating system (popularly known as Windows 8) as well as some interesting features to share with everyone. Other features rumored around include Facial recognition, Windows Store. Steve Ballmer already quoted past in an interview about the riskiest product ever could be the next release of Windows. Windows 8 is expected to be another revolutionary release to the Windows product line....
Did you install the latest Service Pack Microsoft has released for Windows 7 few days ago? If not, do it right away and patch your OS. A typical Service Pack 1 installation takes at least 30 to 60 minutes depending on your computer configuration and files. Imagine you got to format your machine and do a fresh Windows 7 installation. At that time, you need to install this update (read SP1) over again....
Nothing special about this post. Just sharing a classic picture of the legends. A short description from Wikipedia: Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney....
Now that everybody are excited about today’s Service Pack 1 Final Release for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, how many of you know that Windows 7 keeps traces in your machine of the previous updates? These backup files are necessary for the operating system in case if you want to remove the update later. The size of these backup files will be huge in size (more than 1 GB) which you may not require in future....
Andrew Lees, President of Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, confirmed that Nokia’s first device will be using Windows Phone 7′s Mango update aka WP 7.5. This update is expected to ship later this year. Earlier, we had a news of the Nokia and Microsoft partnership. Now, we have a confirmation of the exciting codename ‘Mango’ update. This update will include many exciting features - Twitter integration directly into the People Hub...
The rumors are true now. Nokia confirms Microsoft partnership making Windows Phone 7 as the operating system of choice moving forward. Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. In an open letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft – the Finnish handset maker will “contribute its expertise on hardware design, language support, and help bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points, market segments and geographies”....