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Windows Sideshow is a new technology that enables users to see what is on their PC or laptops, even if they are turned off (asleep,on hibernation, or any other state), with the help of a simple mobile phone or any other device that supports windows sideshow ( laptop lids, PDA, any kind of gadgets possible [...]

Windows Media Player 12, developed by Microsoft, is the release of Windows Media Player succeeding Windows Media Player 11. It was first introduced in October 2008 at the 2008 Professional Developers Conference and has been released as part of the Windows 7 operating system. It is unknown if it will be released for Windows XP [...]

If you are a Windows 7 or Vista user you may recognize the following error : “Host process for Windows Services Has Stopped Working”, an error that is linked with svchost.exe application and with fault module rasmans.dll_unloaded.
This error causes a lot of work especially in Windows 7 were it may appear intermittently without reason, cases [...]

The latest security update from Microsoft for Windows Vista, XP and Windows 7, are causing some Windows (7, Vista and XP) machines to freeze after starting, and display a black screen with a single My Computer Explorer window. Security software maker, Prevx, first reported the problem surrounding the November 10 update, and has created a [...]

After so many problems, that Microsoft confronted, another strike received from  China.  Microsoft lost the process with a Chinese software maker for the intellectual property. According to the accusations, the giant from Redmond used two Chinese fonts developed by Beijing-based software company Zhongyi Electronic, and was not covered by a license agreement between the two.
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First of all I have to ask if there is anybody who uses Windows Vista anymore, because it seems that the number of Windows 7 sales is very, very high for the first week on the market.
I just found out that Microsoft’s latest operating system had a wonderful start, with sales up to 234% more [...]

With the latest version, Ubuntu will give you integration with cloud computing and net-books. The ability to deploy applications in the cloud much easier than before is one of Canonical’s goal for 9.10 using Amazon’s EC2 platform. Canonical is also trying to beat the 25-second booting time when using Ubuntu 9.04 on net-books.
Free and useful [...]

If I remember, the launch of Windows Vista was also a reason for tons of hardware to pop-up in the stores.
Even if the laptops still had 512 MB RAM or small processors, too much under the minimum system requirements for Vista, they were sold Vista ready. Microsoft apparently didn’t learn anything from this.
I am using [...]

Windows XP was able to boot very fast because of the Prefetch option. Sadly this option didn’t have any influence upon the applications that were installed in the system.
For this reason, in Vista, Microsoft had developed and implemented the Superfetch option.
This new option is taking into account when the computer is started, not only the [...]

Don’t spend your money on a router. Microsoft teach us a trick which help sharing internet wirelessly, from the PC affined to a modem to another PC or a Wi-Fi phone or whatever. The ideea is that the main PC will use it’s Wi-Fi card like a router. In that way the other devices are [...]