Starting September 28 through November 4 Microsoft is hosting free Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 launch events across the United States as part of the "New Efficiency" marketing campaign. Attendants of...
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Both Macworld and CNET are reporting that the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac will be due by the end of 2010. The next version of Office for Mac will include Outlook and will...
Digg has prevented users on IE 6 from certain activities, Facebook has been telling users to upgrade, and YouTube is supposedly going to cut off IE 6 support altogether. Yet, Microsoft still hasn't pulled the...
Tom's Guide is reporting that Zune HD is now available for pre-order. Although Zune HD is expected to launch September 15th, customers in the United States can now place their pre-order for Zune HD...
Prices for the 16GB and 32GB models of Zune HD have apparently leaked according to Gizmodo. The screen shots shown below appears to have come from a Best Buy inventory. If Best Buy's inventory is...
An image of one of the very first Microsoft stores currently being built has surfaced on Maximum PC. We've previously reported that the first Microsoft store locations would be in both Arizona and...
A post by Long Zheng from istartedsomething shows that the logo for the Microsoft store has been revealed, and was filed last week by Microsoft at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The logo,...
New images of Microsoft's Zune HD has leaked, and according to the pictures shown, the Zune HD appears to be sporting black and silver color options. We've previously reported that Microsoft confirmed that...
According to a report by The Times, Apple attempted to silence a father and his daughter after the child's iPod exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. Ken Stanborough said "It made...
According to MacRumors, Amazon is now taking pre-orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Amazon is offering Snow Leopard at $29 and is slated for a September release as announced by Apple earlier this year...
According to The Register, Intel plans to deploy Windows 7 on its employee's computers. When asked at a Technology Summit with reporters and analysts in San Francisco whether the company would wait until service pack...
According to Macworld, Barnes and Noble will offer free Wi-Fi via AT&T, which was previously a subscription service when it was launched in 2005. As part of the Wi-Fi offering, Barnes & Noble customers can...
We've previously reported that Microsoft was planning to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer. But now, reports are saying that users could be given the choice of which browser to install when they...
According to a press release, Microsoft has released its fourth quarter results ending June 30, 2009. Microsoft announced a revenue of $13.10 billion. That's down 17% from last year. Net profit for the period was...
According to Gearlog, PriceGrabber, which operates a price-comparison site for online shopping, conducted a poll of 2,411 respondents between June 12 and July 10, asking them about why those consumers have chosen to wait to...
As part of its Wave 3 update announced back in 2008, Windows Live Hotmail was to have "ever increasing storage", and now as reported by LiveSide, the current maximum mailbox size for Hotmail is 500...
According to an article by Electronista, Apple has dropped to 5th in US computer sales, citing early reports by IDC. Apple has shipped 12.4% fewer computers than it did last year, falling to 1.21 million...
Facebook has hit 250 million active users according to a post on the site's official blog, and a report by CNET. "For us, growing to 250 million users isn't just an impressive number; it is...
Data from ComScore is showing that Microsoft's Bing search engine is taking market share away from Yahoo in the US market, reports IT Pro. The latest data shows that Microsoft captured 8.4% of US internet...
Teenagers spend money on game consoles, movies and music concerts while ignoring newspapers. At least that's what Matthew Robson, a 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley is saying according to Bloomberg. He was...
Microsoft on Tuesday will issue six security bulletins for patch Tuesday reports PC Magazine. Among these bulletins will be a DirectShow vulnerability issued in May, and possibly a zero-day vulnerability that was discovered this week....
Microsoft today released a press statement stating that Steven Sinofsky has been named President of the Windows division. He now assumes responsibility of the Windows business unit including both the engineering and marketing functions for...
After Microsoft started selling Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional upgrades at a discount, consumers were flocking to take advantage of these discounts resulting in strong sales, and according to Information Week, those pre-order sales...
Both Symantec and McAfee are in an 'Arms Race' in the PC security market according to a report by The New York Times. McAfee has been trying to dethrone Symantec, which currently holds 52% of...
With Firefox 3.5 being recently released, and hitting five million downloads in 24 hours, Firefox appears to be gaining more market share, and Internet Explorer's market share is slipping according to Favbrowser, and a graph...
Two weeks after we reported that Windows 7 build 7260 leaked, we now have another leak. This time, it's build 7264, which carries the build string of 6.1.7264.0.win7_rtm.090622-1900 meaning that it was complied last week....
According to a report by webmonkey, the final version of Firefox 3.5 will be released on June 30. Firefox 3.5 is the first major revision since 3.0 was released about a year ago. The new...
Now that Windows 7 pre-orders are being sold for a big discount, Computer World is reporting that buyers are flocking to take advantage of these discounts, and that Windows 7 pre-orders already claimed Amazon's top...
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on netbooks even since it first introduced the operating system, however, helping consumers getting it on there may prove a bit tricky. According to CNET, Microsoft is considering offering...
As we reported earlier today, Microsoft would offer both Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional at a pre-order discount price of $49.99 and $99.99 respectively starting June 26th and going through July 11 while supplies...
Microsoft today has officially announced the start of the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program allowing consumers and small businesses to receive Windows 7 when they purchase a qualifying Windows Vista PCs starting June 26. Under...
Wzor is claiming that the final sign off is set for July 13th. According to a translation, this is the final roadmap for Windows 7: FINAL ROADMAP FOR WINDOWS 7 [CLIENT-SERVER]:6/1 - 6/19 BUILDING RTM...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that with the with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, the Iranian regime has developed a way to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale,...
Rafael Rivera from Within Windows has announced that UxStyle Core beta is now available for download. To give us some information on what UxStyle Core is, we'll start with a little history. Back in the...
According to CNET, MSN is looking to revamp the MSN homepage, and it will have stronger ties with Bing. Two MSN revamp concepts are currently under testing. One version, that is being tested in...
Have you been frustrated with AT&T lagging behind in iPhone feature deployment, and the upgrade pricing for the iPhone 3G S? Well there is a bit of good news. According to MacWorld, AT&T will be...
It looks like Facebook could soon dethrone MySpace in the number of unique visitors, because according to TechCrunch, Facebook has caught up to MySpace in terms of the number of unique visitors each site receives....
Now that the iPhone 3G S has been announced, pre-orders have caused the device to be sold out according to a report by Apple Insider. Any pre-orders that were made starting today, June 13...
Another Windows 7 build has leaked. This time it's build 7229. Sources are indicating that unless there is a leak internally from Microsoft, this would be last build leaked before the RTM. The build string...
Sometimes, the government isn't always best, and according to IT Pro, web savvy geeks are showing them a better way to share public information. Last year, the UK's Cabinet Office ran a competition with a...
