This week, we finally got the new Chrome OS update, the Aura user interface that was quite a shock for many of us who tested it. Users who rush to install the brand new release are in for a little surprise: Chrome OS seems to have morphed into a desktop-like operating system, slowly, unseemingly sailing away from the cloud OS [...]
The Microsoft research team just uncovered an intriguing project called Lifebrowser. In these times of serious privacy concerns, I wonder whether this product will see the sunlight without any debates around it. Lifebrowser is somewhat similar to the Facebook’s Timeline, but much more complex. Microsoft Develops a Lifebrowser That Would Keep Track of Your Digital Life Eric Horvitz, the scientist who [...]
Just last week, Microsoft unleashed its Windows 8 consumer preview, and with it, tons of goodies were unleashed towards the masses. The new Metro interface is modern and stylish and the first thing that hits you when you lay your eyes on it, are the graphics. Themes have been a very important feature of Windows 7 and they will go [...]
The latest Windows 8 presentations might have seemed a little weird to the noob eye with all the changes going on, but that’s nothing compared with what Microsoft is really planning inside its deep secret experimental labs. Microsoft seems to be putting its faith in the younger generation these days, and has proven that at the TechForum 2012 event. Visionary [...]
Over the years Microsoft has launched many flavors of Operating Systems under their Windows brand. From single-user to multi-user and from single-tasking to multi-tasking, Windows has grown so much and is able to keep the IT folks both at enterprise level and individual level. In spite of challenges raised by other operating systems like Mac and Unix, Windows has become [...]
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I have been using Windows 8 as my secondary operating system with Ubuntu for a long time now and sometimes I find Windows 8 a bit confusing in terms of finding the settings and control panel. There are many windows which are to be opened to get into the main settings area. There was the God Mode feature in Windows [...]
Earlier today, Tyler Holman posted an intriguing article on Neowin about how Perception is killing Internet Explorer. Tyler claims that IE9, the latest version of the web browser is as good as its competitors like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, but the horrible perception of IE being low on quality has resulted in continuous depletion of IE’s market share. [...]
The recent news of Google planning to buy Motorola Mobility, has relived the issues of patent wars. In this 21st century, the issue of patent wars has been a recurring phenomenon, particularly in the sphere of mobile phones, internet, software and electronics. However, we must first be clear about the concept of a patent – A patent is a series [...]
Microsoft has shared its vision of how our living rooms will be in the future. As you would expect, it involves integration of Microsoft’s very own products – Xbox, Kinect and Bing. Microsoft has been considerably successful in defining the future of gaming industry, through their path-breaking project of Xbox Kinect and they have now set their eyes on to [...]
The Age of Empires series represents one of the greatest strategy games ever made. It still has a huge follower base which started to grow even from the very first version. Until now, we have the following games under the Age Franchise: Age of Empires III Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties Age of [...]
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