Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two – Social networking phone features and specifications

April 13th, 2010 by Giridhar | No Comments | Filed in Reviews

Microsoft have launched two new windows mobile phones called the Kin One and the Kin Two, formerly  known as “Turtle and Pure” . windows phoneThis multimedia phones are manufactured by Sharp with a strong focus on social networking. Both of the new KIN devices, are the result of Microsoft’s famous Project Pink initiative.  Kin  one and two mobile phones feature a home screen called the ” Kin Loop” a  three -pane home screen, automatically displaying feeds from various sources like Facebook, MySpace etc. Another core component of this platform is “Kin spot” is a tiny circle found at the bottom of the screen, which allows users to share individual  pictures, video, etc without inviting them through  applications. Both the Kin One and Kin Two lack memory card slots. (more…)

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Windows 7 and battery life issues – Problem explanation and solution

February 25th, 2010 by Giridhar | 2 Comments | Filed in Tips & Tools

windows 7Windows 7 users who were upgraded from Vista were facing a strange problem. After the upgrade battery was failing and a message was displayed “consider replacing your battery”. Now Microsoft has confirmed that it has nothing to do with upgrade but this confusion is because of an advanced feature in Windows 7.  Windows 7 had introduced  battery notification message which created the confusion. (more…)

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How to find Microsoft outlook mailbox size

September 1st, 2009 by Giridhar | 3 Comments | Filed in Howtos, Tips & Tools

How to find Microsoft outlook mailbox size

microsoftIf you are bugged with  over usage notification emails and wondering how to find the size of your Microsoft Outlook mailbox , here are the steps to find your mail box size in Microsoft outlook. (more…)

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Windows 7 Tips : Performance improve and monitor

July 30th, 2009 by Giridhar | 1 Comment | Filed in Tips & Tools

Windows 7  Performance improvement and monitoring

microsoftMicrosoft is working on windows 7 performance which was one of the reason for the failure of Vista. There were a lot of memory leak and other performance and driver related issues in Windows Vista,So this time Windows 7 is shipped with few good performance monitoring tools. (more…)

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Microsoft contributes Linux drivers to Linux community

July 21st, 2009 by Giridhar | 2 Comments | Filed in Windows

microsoftMicrosoft contributes Linux drivers to Linux community, Should I believe it or not!! It is the truth. Considering the new economic condition where lot of companies are considering all the measures to cut the cost in every possible way, Microsoft identifies that reducing complexity is the key factor to reduce cost. (more…)

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Microsoft Office 2010 Web Applications – a first look and review

July 17th, 2009 by Giridhar | 1 Comment | Filed in Windows

microsoftMicrosoft is taking its office suite a long way with its new Office 2010 which is code named as Office 14, The Office 2010 include the new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher and SharePoint Server.With Office 2010 you would be able to deliver you work from anywhere, share the work with multiple people and with co-authoring capabilities. (more…)

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Virtual windows environment on your browser online

July 9th, 2009 by Giridhar | No Comments | Filed in Tips & Tools, Windows

Virtual windows environment on your browser online

microsoftThose who are very new to windows or need to get a look and feel of Windows (typical MAC or Linux users), windows4all.com provides virtual windows operating system experience on your browser. You don’t need to install Windows on your hard disk, just need to install a very light weight EXE, which is called as Silver light provided by Microsoft.Available applications on this virtual windows environment are, (more…)

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Security exploit discovered in Internet Explorer – 972890 – Solution/FIX and workarounds

July 8th, 2009 by Giridhar | 2 Comments | Filed in Tips & Tools

Security exploit discovered in Internet Explorer – 972890 – Solution and workarounds

microsoftMicrosoft Security Advisory is reporting a new security issue which is found on Internet Explorer. In a Web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a web site that contains a web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user (more…)

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Windows 7 Pricing Details Announced

June 26th, 2009 by Giridhar | No Comments | Filed in Windows

Windows 7 Pricing Details Announced

microsoftLong awaited Windows 7 pricing is announced today. Microsoft announced prices for Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional and Home Premium editions. Good news for Home Premium users, they get a heavy discounted price compared to Vista’s launch price. (more…)

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Microsoft Security Essentials Beta released (Morro) – Free Anti virus from Microsoft

June 24th, 2009 by Giridhar | No Comments | Filed in Windows

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta released (Morro) – Free Anti virus from Microsoft

microsoftIt was discussed about Morro in earlier post, today Microsoft is offering its latest free anti-virus product Microsoft Security Essentials (codenamed as Morro) to Public. It will be available for first 75000 users and chances are there to extent this 75000 download limit. (more…)

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