Archive for January 7th, 2010

etc: Microsoft has released an update for Office Word 2007 to comply with a patent infringement verdict over its use of custom XML.

Microsoft has released an update for Office Word 2007 to comply with a patent infringement verdict over its use of custom XML. Read More: Microsoft Download Center , Ars Technica

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Orbit Downloader 3.0 Released

The popular download manager Orbit Downloader 3.0 has been released today. One would expect a full set of new features and additions but this is not the case

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Microsoft kicks off CES with a look back and glance forward

LAS VEGAS—After enduring an embarrassing power outage that delayed the start of the event for over 20 minutes, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage to kick off CES 2010. A major theme of Ballmer’s keynote , and also of Consumer Electronics Association head Gary Shapiro’s pre-keynote opening remarks, was that 2009 may have been a frightful year, but the worst is behind us; and as bad as last year was, the industry managed to beat some of the more pessimistic analyst expectations.

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Windows7 – IPTV deployment – Media Room 2.0

Microsoft will be moving the IPTV forum to include Windows 7 PC’s with Media Room. MediaRoom is a software platform for TV and video service providers

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Microsoft’s collaboration on SVG is a win for the open Web

Microsoft’s Patrick Dengler, a senior program manager on the Internet Explorer team, revealed this week that Microsoft is joining the W3C’s Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) working group. In a post on the official IE blog, Dengler says that Microsoft hopes to collaborate on future versions of the SVG standard

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AMD ATI Radeon Tray Tool

Changing settings of an AMD Ati Radeon card is a tedious task, especially if the steps have to repeated regularly. It always involves opening the Catalyst Control Panel, finding the right menu and making the changes. It takes some time and is not really that practical

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Windows 7 Fastest Selling Operating System In History Says Microsoft

It has been only a year since the first beta release of Windows 7 and only 2 months since its public release to retail channels in selected countries throughout the world but it is already clear, says Microsoft, that Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in Windows history. The first week stats of the Windows 7 launch week already showed that Windows 7 was outselling Windows Vista at its time of release by 234%. But it is not only the first few days that Windows 7 performed well in sales.

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HP Slate Tablet to Run Windows 7

News is coming in from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – Steve Ballmer’s keynote touched upon not only Windows 7, but also the recently announced HP multi-touch Slate tablet.

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Windows7 Themes from Photo Manipulation Artworks

Many art images can be found to be the future of Windows 7 themes. The 18 images collected here from different artists who are experts at photo manipulation express different emotions. Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means.

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Create a System Restore Point in 1-click with Quick Restore Maker

We are pleased to release Quick Restore Maker, a smart 1-click freeware app for creating a System Restore Point in Windows 7 & Vista. Normally, to create a system restore point, you have to,…

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