Microsoft today launched Office 365 , its cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite, in 40 countries around the world. Office 365 combines access to Exchange e-mail, Lync messaging, SharePoint collaboration, the Office Web Apps, all into one monthly subscription.

This video will show you how you can get the best parts of Windows 8 on your current Windows 7 PC. Links: Winsplit – www.winsplit-revolution.com Interactive Wallpaper – okozo.com Mosaic – mosaicproject.codeplex.com Theme pack – www.windowsvalley.com

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips PrinceKido has many images that are ready to be placed on your desktop. They are Disney wallpapers related with Micky Mouse, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, and many others

It is a good idea to backup your Firefox profiles regularly to have options at hand when a profile needs to be restored. This can be the case after a hard drive crash, file corruption or update that caused problems. We have reviewed several backup options before, from the Firefox extenion FEBE ( Firefox Environment Backup Extension ) to the third party application MozBackup

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips There have been so many rumours about Windows 8, many of them completely wild and untrue, that it’s sometimes hard to seperate the good from the bad.

I recently wrote about tools and options people had to analyze computer usage . OS Forensics is a program for Microsoft Windows systems that I would have included in the guide if it had been released back then. The program is a system information gathering software.

Many people tend to collect a lot of one thing or another – some people really enjoy a large media collection, others have hundreds of different model trains. What some fail to realize is that there are practical organizational solutions available for your computer that allow you to catalogue your collections – and most are completely free. Here are a few favorites that may prove to be useful in managing your own things.

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Google has come under scrutiny in Europe for its anti-competitive stance.

When you are trying to customize Microsoft’s latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 you are limited by the configuration options, called Internet Options in the browser. Those options have not really changed a lot since the release of Internet Explorer 6. Users who wanted to tweak and modify other elements of the browser had to rely on Registry tweaks, group policies and third party tools

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips While Windows 7′s market share is rapidly rising all the time, it seems that it can’t compete with the huge rate of growth that smartphones are currently experiencing. As the world is becoming more and more reliant on their smartphones and accessing data on the go, it seems that the iPhone and smartphones are overtaking the humble desktop. A recent report from Meraki shows that the iPhone alone is accessing Wi-Fi networks more than Windows 7 and Windows Vista machines put together.