Take it from Microsoft to jump into the fray for Online Storage and then show why they can attract customers / users.
In an announcement on the Windows Live SkyDrive blog, Microsoft announced some updates to their online storage service.
Space has been increased five fold from 5GB to 25GB of free online storage
Control your data. Move [...]
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When you are working on your computer and installing a new program, the installation suddenly fails. Now you are left with a partly installed program.
You try to install the program again, but you are unsuccessful. Or, maybe you have problems trying to remove an old program because the installation files are corrupted.
This is where Windows [...]
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Microsoft has been using “Windows 7″ as the codename for its new operating system for quite a while now. However, yesterday Mike Nash, Corporate VP, Windows Product Management announced that this will be the name of the next version.
The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, we have taken [...]
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Imagine the situation that you are running Windows Vista and need to run XP or even Linux. Well, you have two options before you, viz. install Linux or XP as a dual boot or run it within your Operating System as a virtual machine.
There are two free softwares available that achieve the second purpose, viz. [...]
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One of the main reasons I disabled User Aaccess Control was the extremely irritating popups that interrupted even the most mundane of tasks.
I guess, I’m not the only one and Microsoft has learnt from the experience!
Based on what we’ve learned from our data and feedback we need to address several key issues in Windows [...]
If you are using Windows, the number of shortcuts that Windows presents you is phenomenal. You even have the option to create your own shortcuts to launch applications.
Here are ten shortcuts that can improve productivity:
Windows Key + R
Open the Run window
Windows Key + F
Open the search window
Windows Key + E
Open Windows Explorer
Windows Key + 1, [...]
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Yesterday, I covered five of my favorite multimedia players. Today I’ll cover ten Windows tools that you can use to defragment your hard disk.
You need just one. So, take your pick!
Contig
Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or [...]
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Apple’s Ads where an attempt to portray to users that Mac is the cool operating system used by cool people, while Windows is for …
Now, the new I’m a PC advertisements are online. The ads don’t talk about the operating system or what Microsoft is about. However, they do portray something real. As one person [...]
I decided to try out Spyware Terminator, since it was the new spyware software to gain popularity.
Honestly, I was pretty impressed by the software. Download and install is extremely fast. At the end of the install, you get an option to choose between simple spyware scan, real time protection or real time spyware and virus [...]
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Microsoft signed a deal with Oil and Natural Gas Corporatiom Ltd. to deploy Microsoft Windows Vista over 18,000 computers.
This makes ONGC the largest customer of Windows Vista in Asia.
Via: CIOL
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