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Microsoft Silverlight for Online IPL Viewers

Posted by sudhirmangla April 18, 2009

The official website of the Indian Premier League — www.IPLt20.com will provide an interactive video experience to those would like to view match coverage online. The videos will broadcast using Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, which is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for viewing rich interactive applications on the Web. Microsoft India claims this to be the largest online broadcasting cricketing event in history, offering viewers a novel way of viewing twenty20 matches live... Read more »

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Microsoft Launches Celebrity Site Wonderwall

Posted by sudhirmangla February 7, 2009

Microsoft has partnered with media company BermanBraun Interactive to launch an entertainment and celebrity site for MSN called Wonderwall. With a slew of similar entertainment focused sites already in existence, Microsoft’s move is a gamble, but the company says the entertainment gossip category continues to grow and in the last year it increased 14 percent. Microsoft is also counting on the fact that 84 percent of people on the Internet in the U.S. visit an entertainment site every month. Wonderwall... Read more »

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Microsoft layoff email to employees

Posted by sudhirmangla January 26, 2009

From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:07 AM Subject: Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs In response to the realities of a deteriorating economy, we’re taking important steps to realign Microsoft’s business. I want to tell you about what we’re doing and why. Today we announced second quarter revenue of $16.6 billion. This number is an increase of just 2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year and it is approximately $900 million below our earlier... Read more »

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Microsoft Updates WGA Notifications for Windows XP Pro To Detect Pirated Copies

Posted by sudhirmangla January 8, 2009

Microsoft is rolling out new Windows Genuine Advantage notifications for Windows XP. According to Microsoft along with the usual validation of Windows XP OS to detect stolen or fake product keys, this release will also include significant updates to detect pirated copies of Windows OS. Looks like Windows XP Pro is the most pirated version of windows and it will effect the users of this OS. These update notifications will works like the ones implemented in Windows Vista. After installing this... Read more »

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Microsoft to release Windows Vista SP2 next week to testers

Posted by sudhirmangla January 8, 2009

Microsoft is getting ready to launch Vista service pack 2 in the coming months, before that it is releasing a beta version to a small group of testers. A small group of Microsoft’s technology adoption program customers will get Vista SP2, Mike Nash posted on the windows vista blog. There is a speculation few days before that Microsoft will release Vista SP2before the launch of Microsoft Windows 7. In addition to the previously released updates since the launch of Windows Vista SP1, Windows... Read more »

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IE8 might be Releasing on March 2009 (or Post-March 2009)

Posted by sudhirmangla January 2, 2009

According to new indications from Microsoft If you are holding your breath while waiting for the successor of IE7, feel free to exhale at any time because Microsoft is by no means in any hurry to deliver the RTW (release to web) version of Internet Explorer 8. In fact, a recent move from the Redmond company reveals that the gold release of IE8 might come as late as over a year after the launch of the Beta 1 build, if not even later. Of course, with no official confirmation, anticipating the final... Read more »

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Microsoft to sell line of "softwear"-labeled shirts

Posted by sudhirmangla December 8, 2008

Microsoft is set to start selling a line of retro-style graphic t-shirts, called "Softwear by Microsoft," on Dec. 15, as part of the company’s $300 million campaign to reinvent its image. From the "Softwear" Web site: This is Softwear by Microsoft. A clothing line that taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our lives. With retro logos, classic photos, and geek-chic iconography, these pieces showcase the DOS days of the software company that now connects... Read more »

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Microsoft to Offer Free Windows Anti-Virus Solutions

Posted by sudhirmangla December 4, 2008

Microsoft has announced it will replace its Windows security and PC management service with free anti-virus software. Microsoft Windows OneCare will be replaced by the new anti-virus protections in July 2009. The software giant hopes to protect a greater number of consumers with the solution product solutions. Microsoft Corp on Tuesday announced it will replace its current Windows OneCare service with free anti-virus solutions. Microsoft Windows OneCare is a subscription based service which... Read more »

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Want Windows 7 Beta 1? Here’s what you have to do

Posted by sudhirmangla December 4, 2008

PDC attendees got the Windows 7 pre-beta build, and Microsoft told them that a public beta would be available in early 2009. But you don’t want to wait until then, right? You want Beta 1, right now. Well, I can’t give you that, but I can tell you how you can get your hands on a physical copy of the Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD. You’ll need $100 and a desire to visit one of the upcoming episodes of the MSDN Developer Conference (MDC). Here are the dates and locations you can register for: 12/9/08... Read more »

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Microsoft to buy Yahoo online search

Posted by sudhirmangla December 1, 2008

Software major Microsoft is in discussions to buy the online search business of Yahoo for about 20 billion dollars, media report says. A few months back, Yahoo had spurned a takeover bid from Microsoft worth more than 47 billion dollars. It is thought that Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, have been lined up to lead the new management team. Senior directors at Microsoft and Yahoo are understood to have agreed... Read more »

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