Software giant Microsoft has posted its earnings results for the second quarter of its 2012 financial year. It was another record-breaking quarter for the company, buoyed by strong holiday season demand. Revenue for the quarter was $20.89 billion, up 5 percent year over year.

Firstly, let me start by warning you against reading this article. It’ll shatter some of your illusions about Facebook

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Microsoft has successes with the OS, Windows Client and Server plus multiple applications. It has been moderately successful with Azure, its cloud service and Office 365. It has had very limited success with its own smartphone, Windows Phone 7

Sometimes you may download or receive music in a format that you cannot really use in all of your devices. Maybe it is a Flac file that your mp3 player cannot play, or an audiobook that you want to merge all of the chapters from.

If you are looking forward to developing apps or designing for Windows Phone, you might want to check out these free offerings from Microsoft UK. The Faculty Resource Kit from Microsoft provides… For more visit The Windows Club.

QA are very happy to fill the gap in the training market and offer this 3 day course looking in detail at Microsoft’s Deployment Toolkit 2012 and migrating XP to Windows 7. The video introduces the course and a sample demonstration on using PowerShell with MDT. First run date is April 2102.

York at its core looks like yet another networking monitor that is using the WinPcap packet capture library. If you look closer though, you will notice that it makes some things more comfortable than other programs of its kind. Alternatives include the Open Source application Open Monitor , NetWorx or NirSofts’ Network Traffic View

Readers may be aware that some time back BlueWaterProd has released a 48 page giant-sized comic book of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire on the planet and..

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips It seems like we’ve been waiting forever for the Skype app/integration for Windows Phone. Windows Phone head Joe Belfiore even spoke about the app back in MIX 2011 last year and we’re still waiting with no clarification on when the popular video chatting service might come to this platform. After all, Microsoft does own them , so why not

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips In the wake of the CES announcements by Nokia regarding their new flagship smartphone for the US, the Nokia Lumia 900, many users on other carriers besides AT&T feel a bit slighted that the “premiere carrier” for Windows Phone would be given exclusivity to what many perceive to be the best Windows Phone on the market. Neither Microsoft nor Nokia have confirmed whether the exclusivity for the 900 will be permanent and if not for how long, but according to a source of Paul Thurrott’s, the device may only be exclusive to AT&T for 45 days, then it’s game on. In fact, the 900 could then come to other carriers in the form of an upgraded device with a 12 megapixel camera, per his source