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wi-tribe & Microsoft Alliance to IE9

Zubair A. Malik — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:35:12 +0000

Aiming to take internet users’ online experience to the next level, wi-tribe, Pakistan’s No. 1 Broadband, has joined hands with Microsoft to promote its faster and lighter browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). This is another industry-first by wi-tribe, adding more value to their customers’ onli Read More

Nokia and Microsoft Sign Definitive Agreement Ahead of Schedule

Zubair A. Malik — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:41:51 +0000

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement on a partnership that will result in a new global mobile ecosystem, utilizing the very complementary assets of both companies. Completed ahead of schedule, the definitive agreement is consistent with Read More

Microsoft quickens browser pace with IE10, goes for annual upgrades

Arslan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:41:20 +0000

Just over a year after it debuted the first preview for the just-shipped Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its next browser, IE10. The first look at IE10, however, runs only on Windows 7. In a keynote at Microsoft’s annual MIX Web developers conference, Dean Hachamovit Read More

Google’s Gmail Motion turned to Reality using Microsoft Kinect

Zubair A. Malik — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:49:28 +0000

As you might know that Google celebrated the Aprail fool by making people fool of their new service called Gmail Motion and at the end user gets the message that google is making them fool but not know the Motion concept has been shifted to reallity by using Microsoft’s Kinect. The guy wrote j Read More

Hack Expert Says Windows 7 is Hard to Hack

Abdul Qudoos — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:22:57 +0000

Windows 7 is harder to hack than Apple’s Snow Leopard–mainly due to Flash being installed by default on SL. Security expert Charlie Miller has participated in the Pwn2Own contest over the last two years, and has won both times. Held in the CansecWest Conference in Vancouver, British Colu Read More

Intel: We Were Hacked Too

Abdul Qudoos — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:48:43 +0000

Intel comes forth and says that it too was hacked around the same time that Google was. While the hacking of Google was widely publicized, it wasn’t the only firm under attack from nefarious groups. In fact, Google said that a supposed twenty other companies were targeted by hackers around the Read More

Microsoft to patch 17-year-old computer bug

Zubair A. Malik — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:29:17 +0000

A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. The February update for Windows will close the loophole that dates from the time of the DOS operating system. First appearing in Windows NT 3.1, the vulnerability has been carried over into almost every version Read More

Yahoo & Microsoft Search Deal

Zubair A. Malik — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:55:34 +0000

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced today that they have finalized their search deal that will replace the exsisting Yahoo! search engine, and implement Microsoft’s Bing search engine. The press release by Yahoo! and Microsoft confirmed that the deal made in July of this year is now final. The deal Read More

Windows Mobile 7 UI confirmed by Microsoft?

Zubair A. Malik — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:21:28 +0000

Microsoft confirmed today that the company will unveil its plans for Windows Mobile 7 at the MIX 2010 conference in March next year. Microsoft Office Vice President Kurt Delbene confirmed the news at the end of day two at the Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles. Little is known ab Read More

Microsoft’s Office 2010 Technical Preview program is Ending

Zubair A. Malik — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:35:28 +0000

Microsoft has sent me this e-mail. “Hello Zubair, Thank you for continuing to utilize, evaluate and provide feedback on the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. We wanted to notify you the Office 2010 Beta will be available for you to download next month (November 2009). The Beta release o Read More