Category: Microsoft
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Tulalip: New Social Search Service Leaked Accidentally From Microsoft
Microsoft accidentally revealed an internal test version of its research design project “Tulalip” yesterday. A teaser landing page has been revealed by Fusible and it appears to be a new “Social Search” service by Microsoft as shown below. The company has been hosting these new details at www.socl.com. The site which is now taken…
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Leaked Pictures of Nokia’s First Windows Phone. Codenamed ‘SeaRay’
Ok. This one is a big leak! Earlier today, pictures and video of Nokia’s first man, CEO Stephen Elop announcing first Windows Phone to the company’s employees surfaced the blogosphere. In the leaked video, Stephen asked the crowd to put away their cameras repeated times calling out the announcement ‘super confidential’ codenamed “Sea…
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New ‘Protogon’ File System in Windows 8 ?
IT World’s Sando Villinger has some interesting findings in Microsoft’s next generation operating system – Windows 8. One of the known or unknown hidden features that various people have discovered since internal builds began leaking over couple of months is the new file system – Protogon. Microsoft recently demonstrated Windows 8 features in a…
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Windows 8 Comes With New Look, Touch And Start Screen
Microsoft has given a demonstration of their next generation operating system calling Windows 8. It appears to be a complete revamp of the Windows interface, designed around a tile system like that of Windows Phone 7, and focused on being equally accessible via touchscreen interface or mouse and keyboard. Earlier, we saw many…
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WP7 Mango Includes Web Based Marketplace
Just like Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market and Amazon’s Appstore for Android; Microsoft announced a web based version of Windows Marketplace in conjunction with WP7 Mango roll-out. You can read about the announcement of all new 500 features in Windows Phone 7 Mango in the last post here. The web version of Marketplace will…
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500 New Features in Windows Phone 7 Mango
Microsoft yesterday provided the first look of the next release of Windows Phone code named “Mango” bringing 500 new features. This update will be available to all WP7 devices starting from Fall and the Redmond based firm also announced that new devices from Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE and Nokia (?) will come preloaded with Mango later…
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Confirmed! Microsoft Bought Skype for $8.5 Billion
Its confirmed now! After Wall Street Journal’s report, All Things Digital has now confirmed that Microsoft just bought Skype for a huge amount of $8.5 billion. This deal to buy Internet telephone company Skype is officially going to be announced early tomorrow morning. Early reports indicated that Facebook and Google were also looking to…
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Developers, Developers, Developers By Steve Ballmer
Do you remember Steve Ballmer toning ‘Developers, Developers, Developers…’ which had set the Internet surprise! Ballmer is quite passionate about technology and of course Developers. Here is the original version of that video taken from YouTube – Surprised? Now, this original video was remixed with fabulous lyrics. Listen now! …
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Microsoft Launched Business Intelligence Labs
In addition to Microsoft series of many labs (Office Labs, Fused Labs, Dev Labs…), it now added Business Intelligence (BI) Labs to it. These labs are meant for showcasing the technologies which can be later converted into full-fledged commercial products. BI Labs is a collection of experimental business intelligence projects and useful applications…
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Microsoft to Increase Prices for Certifications Exams
Effective July 1, 2011, Microsoft has decided to increase retail price of its Certifications Exams. The price increase will vary from country to country and in India, the price change will be effective on Aug 1, 2011. According to the FAQ page: Microsoft recognizes the increased pressures on students and academic institutions during…