The latest beta for Firefox 4 has been released by Mozilla, this makes it the Third beta for the Firefox 4 development. Beta three supports 30 languages and also supports multi-touch on Windows 7. This gives users the ability to interact with the browser without the need for a mouse. Several changes have been made [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Microsoft has added a new section to their Windows 7 site. Entitled “PC vs. Mac”, it’s the first time Microsoft have openly hit back at Apple’s campaigns against the company.
Many thought that Microsoft would never respond to Apple’s borderline smear campaigns. but it seems that Microsoft have decided to take Apple on. The informative website [...]
Microsoft has reported a strong revenue for the 4th quarter thanks to Windows 7. They have also announced that windows 7 has hit the 175 Million mark for licenses sold.
Windows 7 was released to manufacturing one year ago, Microsoft say it’s the fastest selling operating system in history and has projected to sell 300 [...]
On Monday Microsoft announced that the public beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is now available.
Tami Reller, Corporate Vice President of Windows & Windows Live, announced the public beta at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington. Plans for W7 SP1 and 2008 R2 SP1 were announced at Microsoft’s annual Tech-Ed conference last month.
The service [...]
Microsoft announced last week that nearly half of all W7 machines are running 64-bit versions of the OS.
Signs that the adoption of 64-bit was picking up pace over 32 began early in the year. Valve’s steam gaming software released statistics in January that showed W7 x64 was popular with gamers. Microsoft confirmed that as of [...]
Microsoft announced yesterday that it has sold 150 Million licences of Windows 7, that’s a rate of 7 per second.
Brandon LeBlanc, of the Windows Blog Team made the announcement: "We are excited to announce that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date. As I’ve said before, Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system [...]
A beta version of service pack 1 for Windows 7 was released by Microsoft on Tuesday.
An e-mails to technical beta testers confirmed the release of SP1 in English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish editions. compiled on June 3 with the number 7601.16562.100603-1800 the update is an impressive 1.22GB in size.
Plans for the service pack [...]
LG unveiled their first Tablet, the LG UX10. The tablet wars are on!
LG’s prototype shown at Computex featured a 10.1” LED capacitive screen, a front facing webcam, 1GB of RAM, Intel Atom Z530 and SD expansion. A micro-HDMI output port also means that users will be able to output video to their TV screens. It [...]
Steve Ballmer has openly admitted that Vista was a waste of time, which is not something you hear often from the CEO of a major company when talking about their products. Thinq.co.uk have quoted Ballmer as stating: “We tried too big a task and in the process wound up losing thousands of man hours of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Microsoft announced a record third-quarter on Thursday. $14.50 billion was generated in revenue for the quarter that ended March 31st, 2010.
That’s a 6% increase on last years figure for that quarter. The revenue for Windows as a whole, has increased by 28% on the same quarter last year. Microsoft say this is all down [...]
