Ars Technica has an interesting story on Microsoft from GDC 2009. Microsoft made announcements for updates to Games for Windows and new anti-piracy measures. Microsoft announced ‘DRM-less’ games which would come with anti-piracy protection but wouldn’t be called DRM. According…
Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 has been announced on its official Team Blog. I myself don’t use it regularly but find it really useful for home network management and backup. Power Pack 2 is like a Service Pack but…
In current times, when we are seeing campaigns such as STOP IE6 and also Microsoft themselves advertising the fresh new Internet Explorer 8, which is no doubt better than previous IE version and even the vulnerable and easily hackable Safari,…
That’s right. Finally you can resume downloads in Internet Explorer. It works for me on Windows 7build 7057. This ‘feature’ isn’t documented anywhere, but it does work. If your download breaks before 100% completion, just restart the download from its…
Mike Halsey from the long climb is working on Windows 7 Power Users Guide. I have been following his blog for some time now, and had found his Windows Vista Power Users Guide of great help. It’s like the manual…
Scott Guthrie just announced Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta or Web PI for short. It is a simple web based installer that makes available almost all popular web technologies whether Microsoft’s or not at your desktop. Not just that,…
MIX09 starts today. And Silverlight 3 will be one of the highlights of the event. But why do we have a Silverlight 3 version already and what will it bring to the table for developers and consumers? Well, these are…
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet Hardware 2.0 has done a series of benchmarks, not raw ones with exact numbers, but with ratings as results. He took Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, 7 Beta 1 build 7000 (32 bit and 64 bit),…
Rafael from WithinWindows has done it again. He has discovered a new logon UI background customization trick that Microsoft has put in Windows 7 for OEMs. It requires a registry change and a few folder changes but does it without…
Microsoft has posted a video on the Internet Explorer 8 website which boasts about the speed of Internet Explorer. Shockingly, it proves to be 1/3 faster than Chrome and 3 times faster than Firefox ( all stable released versions )….
