Tag Archives : Microsoft

Microsoft’s recently launched webmail service – Outlook.com now has 10 million users according to an announcement by the company. In its first day of launch, the service hit the 1 million mark. The Metro/Windows 8 look of Outlook.com, with large fonts, tiles and other new design elements is now also starting to appear in other Microsoft products and today, SkyDrive.com, Microsoft’s online [...]

The soon to be launched Microsoft Surface has the same general curved design as the iPad which also is the case with Samsung  tablets, unlike Samsung, Microsoft will not get sued over this, this is perfectly legal for Microsoft. Apple has licensed some of its design patents to Microsoft, under the condition of an “anti-cloning agreement” that prevents Microsoft from releasing clones of iPhone [...]

Google’s Chrome browser popularity and usage is on the rise, according to the latest report from web analytics firm StatCounter, Chrome’s market share has gone up to 33.8 percent worldwide in July from 32.8 percent in June.   Microsoft Internet Explorer is close second at 32 percent, Mozilla’s Firefox which was among the first decent alternate to Internet Explorer is slipping [...]

“One million people have signed up for a new, modern email experience at Outlook.com. Thanks!” @Outlook tweeted. Microsoft’s new email service, Outlook.com, may become a success and provide redemption for Hotmail’s terrible reputation. The site adding 1 million users in about six hours is definitely good news for Microsoft. While launching Outlook.com Microsoft said that it [...]

Microsoft’s announced Outlook.com on Tuesday , a new online email service which gives its email application a much-needed makeover, it cleans up the inbox user interface and adds several social networking features . Outlook.com will exist separately from Hotmail, feature-wise,  the email features are basically the same across the two services,visually –  Outlook.com is everything Hotmail [...]

Google and Microsoft have come out with their Financials for the past Quarter, Microsoft Corp.  announced quarterly revenue of $18.06 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. Operating income and loss per share for the quarter were $192 million and $0.06 per share due to a huge $6.2 billion charge in its online services division relating to its failed 2007 acquisition of aQuantive. “We delivered [...]

October 26th, 2012 is the date for Windows 8 launch according to a post on the official Windows Team Blog.Microsoft had previously announced that an upgrade from Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 will cost US $40 for a download. Windows 8 is one of the most anticipated and ambitious overhauls of Windows Operating System in years, most of the previous version of the OS variant including the Mobile [...]

Microsoft released the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office,  Office 2013 and Office 365. The next release features an intuitive design that works with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. You could get  your hands on the customer preview at office.com/preview , the newest version gives more prominence to cloud computing and is designed for use with [...]

If you are a regular Skype user, this will come as a shocker as your private messaging with someone on your contact list could be sent to another random person on your contacts list. Reported in the Skype support forums, “shocked” users had said private instant messages had been re-sent to to a random person on their contacts list. Microsoft owned Skype has acknowledged the bug. “We [...]

With the focus on operating systems, desktop software and games consoles, it’s often easy to forget that Microsoft have always have a presence in the peripheral market. The original InteliMouse series pretty much paved the way for the optical mouse, being among the first to feature a middle-button / scroll-wheel and built-in forward/back buttons. Well, Microsoft have done it again. The Microsoft [...]