Microsoft is making things happen in the near future with Windows 8 secure boot system. Secure boot is made to lock installing non genuine software, and by the way, non signed software, like other Operating Systems (i.e. Linux distros) on your new machine. Of course, the majority of PC buyers won’t care as they don’t [...]
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Windows 8 with Built-In Blue Screen Of Death!
Remember that epic blue screen of death of Windows 95 and sons ? Well, here you are with the new modern Windows 8 version of it: an almost empty screen with a sad smiley to remind you just bought a bunch of bugs called Windows ! :( Ah, of course, at that very moment, your [...]
Do You Know Gmail-Man?
Microsoft makes a hit with this Gmail parody video (originally aimed to be for internal eyes only). Check it out!
Windows 8 = Your PC Under Windows Phone 7!
Windows 8 is the perfect copycat of the Windows Phone 7 Interface. The shell (HTML5 based) becomes an extra layer of the OS and is supposed to make things easier when it comes to media browsing on a vertical touchscreen. Microsoft claims this 8th iteration won’t need any extra hardware resources. If your machine runs [...]
Microsoft : Buy One $699+ PC and Get a Free XBox 360!
Yeehaaa! Microsoft is chasing customers like there’s no tomorrow. Staring may 22, Microsoft will offer for free a XBpx 360 to students for every purchase of a PC from $699 and up. $199 is the gift value, and $699 is more or less half the price of any Apple computer. Is Microsoft experiencing low sales? [...]
Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billon? What Will Happen Then?
The surprise. In fact someone buying Skype is no surprise at all. eBay never did anything great with it, or at least, never did what was planned : enhance the purchase experience in between buyers and sellers. Skype seems a doomed well working service. Everybody uses it, but no one can extend what it does [...]
Microsoft to End the Zune ? Can be Problematic for Some !
Microsoft is said to end the life of the Zune player due to little demand. Such a bad new can rush fans into real trouble ! ;-)
Microsoft is Counting the (last) Days of Internet Explorer 6 !
Yeeeh, that’s now official, Microsoft is encouraging the entire world to say good bye to old IE6 with a dedicated website http://ie6countdown.com. See ? Things eventually happen ! :-)
Windows Phone 7 Update : Story of Big Crash !
Microsoft released the first Windows Phone 7 update. Good news. But the update was not a real one, it was an update of the updater, to prepare the coming update (the real one). Ouch. Turns into a complicated news. But we’re used to it from Microsoft. But wait, there’s more. The pre-update went wrong for [...]
Smartphones : Nokiasoft is Born !
When you see Nokia joining Microsoft’s Windows 7 mobile you ask yourself : hey, wait a minute, can two losers make a win ? There’s no doubt Microsoft desperately needs a big hardware platform to spread it’s brand new mobile OS. And there no doubt either that Nokia’s Symbian is dead for years now. The [...]