Archive for May 27th, 2010

Apple stock rise could have meant $4.5 billion for Microsoft

Apple reached a major milestone Wednesday when the company’s market capitalization surpassed that of Microsoft for the first time since 1990, making it the number one technology company by market cap. In the last several years, Apple has been firing on all cylinders with the launch of the iPhone and iPad while growing its Mac business to record sales

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Ballmer and Jobs at WWDC?

Do not adjust your computer monitors. The title of this post is correct and a few different sources are saying that there may be an appearance by, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer at WWDC on June 7th

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Windows Phone 7 Tablet : “Not in process”

At an event in Singapore, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the company is focusing on “Designing WP7 for Phones only” . This comment is squashed all the rumors doing the net and also…

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Project Emporia : A new Twitter reading experience from Microsoft

FUSE Labs & Microsoft Research have released an alpha version of a new Twitter reading experience – Project Emporia. Project Emporia filters updates from the Twitter public feed and… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Switch Default Computer Printers Automatically

Automatic Printer Switcher is a helpful tool for users who work in computing environments with multiple printers that are used regularly for different print jobs. The free program can be used to link document types or programs with printers so that it becomes possible to configure default printers for each which are then automatically selected in the print jobs The default printer configuration is a two step process. The program lists all connected printers and their assigned application in its interface.

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Windows 7 – PCHilfe

Die Windows 7 Einführung . Am 9.

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Get Jumplists In Programs That Don’t Have Them

The Jumplists were introduced in Windows 7 and are a great little feature. For those of you who don’t know about jumplists, John has done up a great article which you can see here . The only problem is, not all programs support the Windows 7 jumplists, in particular some of the older programs.

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Microsoft Hohm home efficiency site slowly becoming useful

Microsoft’s Hohm website , an online service designed to make it easier for people to figure out how energy efficient their house is (and how to make it better), has become a great deal more useful with the new addition of real estate data. Now, anyone in the US can enter their ZIP code and get an instant, if approximate, evaluation of their house’s efficiency

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Microsoft has no plans to put Windows Phone 7 on a tablet

Despite mock-ups from enthusiasts of how the new Windows Phone 7 series operating system could look like on a tablet device, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has now announced at an event in Singapore… We’re focused on putting Windows Phone 7 in phones, no plans for tablets In the very brief announcement hopes may well be scuppered for lots of fans who were anticipating a tablet version of the OS to compete with Android and WebOS.

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Hide Windows With WinHide.SB

Windows can be minimized and closed in the Windows operating system. There is however no option to run programs or windows in the background without icons visible in the taskbar or system tray

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