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Do you know that Microsoft Start has 500 million monthly active users or that Power BI has over 200,000 customers? If not, check out our list of some interesting usage stats about Microsoft products.
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Amazon's Alexa now has the capability to proactively change the state of your smart lights, plugs, locks, and thermostats without human intervention. The feature is based on learning usage patterns.
The OS is coming into its own by becoming the most-used desktop OS in most of developed countries. But, it still lags behind Windows 7 in developing countries like India and Brazil.
The latest data from NetMarketShare shows that Windows 10 is still on healthy growth trajectory, even after the free offer has ended and users have started to pay for the operating system.
According to the latest data from comScore, Bing usage has increased by 1% in the mid of August, which is considerably less than the 15% increase which the general manager of Bing Ads Group predicted.
Microsoft's note taking application used to be overlooked by nearly everyone, including Microsoft, but thanks to renewed interest in the application, usage of the tool doubled in 2014.
A new Bitdefender report has found that nearly 20% of small and medium-sized businesses still run Windows XP-powered computers on a daily basis two months since support for the ageing OS ended.
Mozilla has revealed that one of the most popular Firefox plugins, AdBlock Plus, can potentially consume megabytes, or even gigabytes, of RAM on users' machines during browsing.
Tests by programmer and Qwikast founder Nico Schuele have shown Dropbox dramatically cuts down the new MacBook Air's battery life, from a whopping 12 hours to just 3.
Windows Phone 8 now accounts for 20 percent of the Windows Phone market compared to only 5 percent in November. 74 percent of all Windows Phones are from Nokia, with the Lumia 920 growing rapidly
With Windows 8 hitting the stores today, new figures from StatCounter show that Microsoft's 11 year old Windows XP still holds more than a third of the global OS market share.
Following reports that data usage for Verizon users on devices using iOS 6 was higher than normal, the question being asked by Australian iPhone users experiencing the same issue is: Who should pay?
Did you know that if you stacked all the pages printed in the world in 2010 in one giant stack, they would reach to the moon? That's 356,400 kilometers - more fun facts inside.
Wakoopa, self-described as the "Last.fm of software", is to shut down at the end of the month,. Users will be able to download their data before it is gone forever.
Three research firms reported traffic to Twitter.com dropping between the month of September and October. According to these firms, the number of unique US visitors to the Twitter website went down from September to October,...
Microsoft has today unveiled a new web service designed to help users manage and track power usage of their houses, which they've called (cleverly) Hohm. According to Ars Technica, it'll utilize smart grid technology to...
AMD recently notified partners that its 45nm-based processors will be launched on time by the second half of 2008. The company highlighted that the new processors will consume less power and have better performance, according...
Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The company, the second-largest...
Not only has Gears of War become the undisputed king of the 360 at the moment breaking numerous records, but it has also been a key factor in an increased usage of Xbox Live. Other...
Canada is leading the way in Firefox internet usage, with 16% of internet users using the popular open source programme. The figures, provided by OneStat show the gradual market increase that Firefox is gaining, with...
Usage of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser worldwide has slipped since January, while Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox gained by a nearly equal amount, a Web analytics firm said Friday. IE use fell by 0.65 percent to...
Technology industry analyst firm Info-Tech Research Group is telling enterprises to ban Skype from their organizations. "Companies that are already banning peer-to-peer applications, such as instant messaging, should add Skype to its list...
In hopes of raising general awareness of its role as a handler of much of the traffic that makes the World Wide Web possible, Akamai Technologies has created a news usage index that shows when...
OneStat.com reported today that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 94.8 percent. Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to dominate the global browser market. Microsoft's IE 6 is currently the leading browser on...
Research has been carried out which tries to link email usage and the power structure of an organisation, allowing for companies to create a map of their power structures using information from their own internal...
I found this piece of rather "interesting" piece of software over on ShellCity.net. Ever wondered why your hard disk is full? Or what directory is taking up most of the space? ...
Despite predictions that America Online's Internet service would fall by the wayside once people no longer needed their "Web training wheels," a new study said AOL continues to lead all other Internet service providers (ISPs)...
With e-mail technology arrived the idea of reduced paper usage came with it. This may not be the case according to a new study, which found that the use of e-mail has increased paper consumption...
Software developer Macromedia has signed a deal with WebSideStory, a Web site analytics company, to offer site developers a custom tool to track consumer interaction with sites built in Flash. Flash, an...
