Archive for January 25th, 2010

What Has Windows 7 Done For You?

Windows 7 has officially been out for 3 months to the public, while all of us here at Windows 7 News have had a bit longer than that to play around with Microsoft’s latest OS through the various Beta builds and RC’s, I’m sure many of you took advantage of the chance to try out the new OS for free as well. Many of you may still be running the RC1 version of Windows 7 right now.

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Bing rings 70% search rise for Microsoft sites

The global search market grew a sizeable 46 percent between December 2008 and December 2009, from 89.7 billion to 131.4 billion searches conducted by people age 15 or older from home and work locations. These searches include the top properties where search activity is observed, not only the core search engines.

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China loves Ballmer, loathes Google, rails against US

The Chinese government may have been caught flat-footed by the big Google anti-censorship announcement and the US speech on Internet freedom , but the country’s leaders are making up for lost time. The US has had its chance to speak, and now it’s China’s turn to mount the moral high horse

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Microsoft Research finds new use for screensavers

When screensavers were first introduced in the 1980s, they were designed to prevent burn-in on CRT monitors. In the LCD era, they’ve largely been used as a distraction and minor security..

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Microsoft: Office 2010 system requirements same as 2K7

Microsoft has provided the final details for Microsoft Office 2010′s system requirements. If your current computer can run Office 2007, or if you just bought a new desktop/laptop, it will be able to run Office 2010 (CPU and RAM requirements for Office 2010 are the same as for Office 2007).

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Microsoft Research Project – Mental Tagging of Images

Microsoft Research is working on a project which will allow users, in future, to tag images mentally. The team consisting of Desney Tan, Ashish Kapoor of Microsoft Research, Redmond and Pradeep..

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Remove Duplicate PST Files From Microsoft Outlook

It can happen that duplicate pst files appear in Microsoft Outlook. These files are sometimes referred to as ghost files which are displayed in the folder list and other folder views in the email client

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75% of Linux code is written by paid developers

The Linux world makes much of its community roots, but when it comes to developing the kernel of the operating system, it’s less a case of “volunteers ahoy!” and more a case of… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Bill Gates Tips: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Here are some tips to University Students & Fresh Graduates from Bill Gates. – Life is not fair – get used to it! – The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem

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Windows 7 Growing Faster Than Vista

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/windows-7-growing-faster-than-vista-overtakes-mac-os.ars

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