Ever wished that instead of carrying around your computer you could just strap on an armband and have it all there under your skin?Ok, so maybe you haven’t thought about it that specifically, but that’s the concept which Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University have come up with.
The touch screen of the future could be on your forearm people.
Microsoft and Yahoo have received the green light from the US Department of Justice and European Commission to go ahead with their plans for an internet search alliance, pitting them
The rumours are questioned no more. As part of his opening keynote at CES 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed the HP slate, though “that’s not what it’s called.”
Microsoft has often played nice with Apple and there are Apple Mac versions of Office, Messenger and even Remote Desktop Connection. Now Microsoft has embraced the iPhone by releasing a Bing app. Although Microsoft has a couple of apps for the iPhone, bringing Bing to the platform is a recognition of the iPhone’s popularity. The app looks quite neat and as well as including voice search, image searching and news it also has location based services like maps and movies.
We’re all familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (or BSoD) giving you a friendly notice that your computer has encountered a critical system error, which makes Microsoft’s latest Black
Apple has taken advantage of the Windows 7 hype by using Microsoft keywords to generate cheeky Google ads for Macs. One sponsored ad appears only when “Windows 7” or “download
Although we all knew it would happen, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like Dell haven’t said much about how they will use Windows 7, I guess because it wasn’t offically out yet, but now that Windows 7 has been released OEMs are starting to move all their products over to the new version of Windows. Dell has announced that they now have 80 models of computer from the 10-inch Inspiron Mini 10 netbook to the ultra-powerful Dell Precision T7500 workstation that ship with Microsoft Windows 7 pre-installed.
So, despite the postal strikes, and the fact you have maxed out the credit card, you are now the proud owner of Windows 7. The sensible thing to do now, is rush over to the PC, open the DVD drawer, put the disk in, and restart the computer. Or is it? Well yes, because Windows 7 is pretty good. Though here are few things you might like to know before taking the plunge.
