Posted on May 3, 2012 by pradeep
Last year during its earnings call, Dolby Labs doubted whether Microsoft might exclude their technology in Windows 8. But during this year’s earnings call yesterday, Dolby Labs announced that Microsoft will include Dolby Digital Plus technology in both x86 and ARM versions of Windows 8. SAN FRANCISCO –(Business Wire)– Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (News – Alert) (NYSE:DLB) [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2012 by pradeep
Microsoft previously said that Windows Media Center program will be available in Windows 8. Today, Microsoft detailed how the Windows Media Center will be included in Windows 8. As in Windows 7, Media Center won’t be packaged with Windows OS itself since it added codec licensing costs for all the customers. From Microsoft, Given the [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2012 by pradeep
Microsoft Research today announced the creation of its new Research Lab in New York City. This new lab will increase the research labs count to 13 at Microsoft. The new lab will be led by Jennifer Chayes, who becomes the managing director of both Microsoft Research New England, which she founded in July 2008, and [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2012 by pradeep
Today Bing announced the redesign of its search results page in US. The new look offers fresh, de-cluttered experience and more modern look. There is no “left rail” in the new design and the related searches content is moved to the right. Microsoft has also improved the page-load times and relevance under the hood. I think this design is [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2012 by pradeep
Windows 8 will have a whole new app platform called WinRT which is designed for touch interaction. The whole WinRT platform is based out of Metro Design and Microsoft is even trying to apply the same design concept for our classic desktop UI. Last month we saw that Microsoft is tweaking the Explorer window in [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin
As part of their Interaction Design course, two Penn State University Students have redesigned the Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 8, with a whole new, more gesture-friendly shape and new gestures just for Windows 8. The students, Kiseok Sung and Mouni Reddy were not just working on their own however, and had some help from [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2012 by pradeep
When Windows 8 gets released later this year, we can expect different types of PC form factors from various PC OEMs. The tablet form factor will become more common design and PC OEM’s like HP, Dell, etc, are already working to release a Windows 8 based tablet later this year. Recently HP’s Windows 8 tablet [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2012 by pradeep
The free security program from Microsoft called Security Essentials protects our PCs from virus, trojans and other malwares. Microsoft has been updating the software constantly and now its on v4. Soon you will be getting notification in Windows Update program where you can update the MSE. Here is the response from Microsoft on this v4 [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2012 by pradeep
Microsoft today announced that the Windows 8 RC otherwise called as Release Preview of Windows 8 is coming in June first week. Microsoft released the consumer preview version of Windows 8 back in February. With Release preview coming in June, we can expect Windows 8 based Ultrabooks, tablets starting October this Holiday season. Microsoft is [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2012 by pradeep
Just few weeks after winning the bid to acquire $1 Billion worth patent and patent applications owned by AOL, Microsoft today announced an agreement to sell 650 patents it won from AOL to Facebook. As part of the deal, Microsoft will retain ownership of approximately 275 AOL patents and applications; a license to the approximately 650 AOL [...]
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