MICROSOFT

July 14th, 2009

Windows 7 Available in September for Businesses

In an effort to attract business clients to its new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft announced yesterday at its New Orleans Worldwide Partner Conference, that it would be releasing volume licenses of Windows 7 Enterprise Edition  to business clients on September 1st, 2009. Microsoft only recently announced that the official public launch date for the OS [...]

June 25th, 2009

Windows 7 Pricing Released, The Final Question is Answered

With the release client already on thousands of potential customers computers, the official release date set and the box art revealed, the only secret left for Windows 7 was going to be the pricing. Well, this morning, Microsoft is taken off the veil. To top it all off, Microsoft has announced some pretty spiffy pre [...]

June 19th, 2009

Microsoft’s New Anti-Virus Beta to be Released Tuesday

Recently, we reported the story on Microsoft’s plan to release free, anti-virus software, speculating that it would be codenamed “Morro”, well, the day has come, Tuesday June 26, 2009. Mark it on your calendars and get out the party hats. Contrary to our initial report though, the release name for the software will be  ”Microsoft [...]

June 15th, 2009

Microsoft Makes Big Sacrifices but EU Still Not Satisfied

In the never ending saga of Microsoft vs the European Union, new developments have been announced regarding Microsoft’s latest attempts to smooth things over in it’s European market, unfortunately the EU isn’t still is not happy and is adamant about continuing its pursuit for cash…err, justice. Starting with its record fine of approx $800 million [...]

June 11th, 2009

Microsoft Looks to Release Free Anti Virus “Morro”

While the words “free” and “Microsoft” aren’t exactly synonymous, the Redmond WA, company is looking at turning over a new leaf as it hopes to infiltrate your system with one more piece of its software – all for free. LiveOne Care never really caught on, whether it was the $50 USD price tag, or the [...]

June 8th, 2009

Microsoft Windows 7 Box Art Sneak Peek

Well, just in case you were concerned with how pretty your new Windows 7 packaging was going to be, Microsoft has listed the product on its online store, devoid of the most important detail – price. They say don’t judge a book by its cover (how did you not see this analogy coming?). Well the [...]

June 2nd, 2009

Windows 7 Release Date Official – October 22nd 2009

It has been less than a month since the first official Release Candidate for Windows 7 was opened for public consumption, now it appears the all new operating system will be set to make its debut on October 22 2009. Microsoft Corp. announced the date the latest version of the Windows operating system, Windows 7, [...]

May 26th, 2009

“Bing” it – Microsoft Set to Rename Upcoming Search Engine

There is little doubt that Google, king of search engines, has become genericized with internet searching, and rightfully so – given its dominance and populatiry with over 80% of web browsing users. Microsoft’s MSN Search/Live Search has  been the 3rd wheel in the search game  since a little after the turn of the century, when Googling [...]

May 26th, 2009

Microsoft Windows Vista and Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Released

With all the talk surrounding Microsoft’s upcoming savior OS, Windows 7, much of the chatter regarding the development of Windows Vista has fallen to the wayside, forgotten that over %23 of the computer population is still running Windows Vista, and with support for XP dying out in 2010 it is poised to become runner up for [...]

May 19th, 2009

Microsoft Brings Bluetrack to Consumers – New Mice Work on Virtually Any Surface

Consumers are taking their notebook and netbook PCs everywhere these days and can now work or play wherever they go with three new Microsoft BlueTrack Technology products: the Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000 featuring Microsoft’s first nano transceiver, the full-sized ambidextrous Wireless Mouse 5000, and the sleek mouse and keyboard combo Wireless Desktop 3000. With these [...]