Microsoft announced the big news at Microsoft Sales Training Conference in Orlando, FL. The big news was what was previously been called as “Vienna”, the next major version of Windows, will now be called “Windows 7″ and would be due in the next 3 years time frame.Source: Engadget
Tags: Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Vienna, Windows 7, Microsoft, News
Categories: Breaking News · Microsoft · Misc · News · Technical
To me @Live addresses are cool even though I like Gmail interface and email handling a lot better than Hotmail. It is short and sweet and stands out. When Microsoft announced that it will open up the @Live addresses I was excited. But then the news faded and there was no word for a while. In the mean time our unofficial hackers came up with a hack that will let us get @Live addresses (unofficially) by changing few parameters in the browser URL.
Here is how you do it,
Enjoy!!! And make sure to get your @live addresses as soon as you can as this hack might not work forever.
Categories: General · HowTo · Microsoft · Misc · Tips N Tricks · Web 2.0
I’m not sure if the mainstream media and the public is fully aware of the US Immigration fairlessness and the hardship legal immigrants face before getting past the immigration gate. One good example is the latest fiasco by the USCIS/DOS on it’s Visa Bulletin game. You can read a little bit about this fiasco from here. It looks like not just the poor legal immigrants but the employers as well go thru this hardship it seems and one good example is this move by Microsoft to open up a development center in Vancouver, Canada.
Read the full story from here.
Tags: Microsoft, Immigration, News, Development Center, Canada, Vancouver
Categories: Breaking News · General · IT · Microsoft · Misc · News · Opinion
I was looking at the latest research stuff from Microsoft, HD View. It’s really an awesome application that let’s you zoom in so deep that I was able to see the people standing on top of the Seattle Space Needle.. While taking a virtual tour around Seattle Downtown I noticed this, which looks to me as a bug. Notice the pole that has the US Flag. Is that looking unrealistic to you?
May be I’m testing this free for Microsoft. I love Microsoft products and I don’t mind doing this on my free time.
Well done Microsoft Research Team. I hope you guys put in more pictures to view.
Microsoft Research HD View
tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Research, HD View, Bug
Categories: General · IT · Microsoft · Misc · Opinion · Thoughts
Microsoft has finally decided to deal with the devil on it’s own turf. They are now suggesting that you don’t use pirated softwares of theirs but if you do use pirated softwares they want you to use Microsoft’s softwares. The motivation behind this scheme is that even if your current version of the software is pirated you may be tempted to buy a future version of the software when it comes out. Even though it is just a “IF SO” kind of thing they just don’t want to miss out on that customer base.
tags: Microsoft, Piracy, Pirated Softwares
Categories: IT · Microsoft · News · Windows Vista · Windows XP
