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Microsoft New Social Networking Site Socl Features And Release Date

It's a recent hot news about Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft is the giant multinational company in the world. It's the creator of windows OS, world's widely used OS ever. Microsoft testing their new social networking site called socl.com secretly. We will be wait to see the Microsoft Socl.com site live. First it was published in the verge site. Microsoft CEO shares the information about their new project social network.

“Microsoft’s FUSE Labs is an internal research group working on a number of forward-looking projects related to future possibilities around social search. Socl is one of the projects that we are exploring. We’ll let you know as soon as we have more to share.”

Internet Explorer 10 Features And Release Date [Screenshots]

Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 3 on September 13, 2011. It will release with the windows 8. It currently in the development. New items on the list such as Web Workers, Web Sockets, 3D Transforms, Application Cache, and IndexedDB are music to the ears of many Web developers who want to make rich, interactive Web sites.

IE 10 also is a key foundation for Windows 8 applications. IE10's ability to run "chromeless" in a full-screen mode and a touch-friendly design. The better the browser's support for new technologies, the better next-gen Windows apps can be. In particular, the apps based on browser technologies will run handily on tablets built with ARM processors.

Nokia Mobile Use Windows OS - Lumia

Nokia has officially unveiled Lumia 800, the first Windows Phone-based device from the mobile giant at the Nokia World conference 2011 in London."It's a new dawn for Nokia, And we think we can break through." CEO Stephen Elop said at Nokia World Conference 2011 in London.

Microsoft has also packed the device with free software. Lumia 800 will be the only Windows Phone with Nokia Drive, which offers full, turn-by-turn voice navigation. Nokia is taking the right steps to diversify their phones by offering three apps you won't find with other carriers are the ESPN hub, Nokia Drive for turn-by-turn directions, and a music app that will do music mixes and streaming radio. Nokia Drive was the only one we were able to see, and the voice read-out. It's a great addition that will help match Android's turn-by-turn Google Maps navigation.

Internet Explorer Final Version Release Date

Internet Explorer 9 RC was released on February 10 and then according to the rumors the final version of Internet Explorer 9 was scheduled to be released on March 14 but MSDN India team has just tweeted that the final version of Internet Explorer 9 would be launched on March 24 at Tech.Ed in India.Microsoft Tech.Ed would commence from March 23 till March 25.We have already seen that there has been increase in the Internet Explorer share for the month of February and IE 9 has already been downloaded 36 Million times.

Internet Explorer Evolution [From version 1 to 9]

As Internet Explorer 9 is going to be released soon we have got the images showing the development of IE from version 1.0 which was released in 1995 to version 9 which is scheduled to be released in couple of days.
Internet Explorer 1.0 (1995)
The first version of Internet Explorer was available in 1995 along with Windows 95. The size of the explorer was slightly more then 1 MB and you can check in the screenshot that you even can’t view images in it.

Internet Explorer 2.0 (1995)
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 2 in the same year in which IE 1.0 was released. It was the first browser which was cross compatible with Windows and MAC OS. Also support was added for JavaScript,frames and Cookies but still you weren’t able to view the images.

Microsoft TV Coming Soon

A report from the Seattle Times claims that Microsoft plans to unveil a version of Windows created specifically for internet connected TVS and set top boxes at CES.

Believed to be a direct competitor with the Apple TV and Google TV, Brier Dudley reports the company plans to show off a stripped down version of Windows tailored for internet connected TVs and set top boxes. Of course we expect Microsoft to partner with hardware manufacturers and provide only the OS for the devices in question.

Evolution Of Popular Websites Homepage

Google:
Google was still in beta ten years ago. These guys believed in simplicity and there’s no exception whether it’s 1998 or 2008.
Google 1998:

Google 2008:

Bill Gates 97 Million Dollar House

The 97-million Bill Gates mansion in Washington spans more than 66000 square feet, and sits on a 2.1 hectare lot.

Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcut's Tricks

Anyone working professionally with a computer has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance and personally I often turn over my mouse in such situations. An easy solution is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.

Aero Shortcuts :
•[Windows] + [Spacebar] (Aero Peek)
Make all open windows transparent to view gadgets and icons on desktop.
•[Windows] + [D] (Aero Peek)
Show or hide the desktop.
•[Windows] + [Home] (Aero Shake)
Minimize all but selected window. Reverse by clicking the key combination again.

•[Windows] + left arrow OR [Windows] + right arrow (Aero Snap)
Dock selected window to the left or right half of your screen.
•[Windows] + up arrow OR [Windows] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximized and restores the selected window.
•[Windows] + [SHIFT] + up arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximizes and restores selected window in vertical dimension only.
•[Windows] + [Tab] (Aero Flip)
Launch 3D representation of open windows and click [Tab] key again to flip through them.

Windows & Taskbar Shortcuts :
•[Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Tag] + left/right/up/down arrow
Flip window.

Evolution of Microsoft Windows OS

It all began in Plaza Hotel, New York City on the 10th of November 1983. Two Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates officially announced their corporation’s first and next-generation graphical user interface operating system – Microsoft Windows.

Despite the criticism on stability and constantly being compared to their rivals Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used operating systems in the world. In this article, we’ll bring you back to 1985 where the very first official Microsoft Windows 1.0 was announced, and then we take a trip down memory lane to see all boot screens and desktop interface of all Windows operating system possible.

Windows 1.01 (1985) :
Officially released on November 20, 1985, this 16-bit OS that cost less than 1MB in overall is Microsoft’s very first operating system that allows multi tasking with graphical user interface on PC platform that runs on MS-DOS 5.0.

Windows 1.03 (1986) :
Introduced in 1986, Windows 1.03 is an upgrade to its previous predecessor Windows 1.01. Entire operating system cost about 2.2Mb hard disk space.

Amazing and Dangerous Tennis Court

Burj Al Arab - one of the world's most luxurious hotels and the highest tower in the world situated in the city of dreams Dubai. It has the highest tennis court in the world. Its space, located at 210 metres of altitude can also used as a helipad for emergency landings or guest traffic. This hotel become a dream hotel due to its extraordinary luxuries. To play and have complete control over the ball is quite difficult at the hight of 210 meter . The scenic beauty of entire Dubai is visible from this ground and the view is breathtaking. Access to his hotel is limited for celebrities only because of its stying cost.

IE9 Hits 30 Million Downloads

As 2010 comes to an end, we wanted to take a look at the changes this last year in the IE world. At end of 2009, IE 6 and IE7 accounted for 38.51% of internet users, while IE8 had 24.15% of users worldwide. Fast forward twelve months later, IE6 and IE7 have shed over 40% of users and now only account for 22.98% of users worldwide – with IE6 hitting an all-time low of 13.81%. IE8 usage on the other hand has increased by almost 40% during the same time. Combined with the near half-percent of users of newly introduced IE9 Beta, the modern Internet Explorer browsers now account for 34.07% of users worldwide according to Net Applications.

Features Of Windows 8

Here is what we think the new OS should offer -
1. Touch Screens: We have already saw Touch Screen version of OS ie Windows 7, so it is sure that there must be a lot of improvements in it, may be like multi-touch capability and lot more.

2. Biometrics Support: New Windows 8 would have inbuilt Biometric password login support, now who need to type a password when you have your face or eye or finger print to do your work. Having said that it automatically enhances the security feature manifolds.

Microsoft office vs Google Docs

Microsoft is testing a new version of its market-leading productivity suite for Windows PCs that will tie-up with new Web-based Office. The applications offered by Microsoft will be similar to those offered by Google including a suite of lightweight online applications.

Google’s online spreadsheet and office related applications has been gaining popularity. To counter that Microsoft plans to take Office online, with a new series of free Office Web applications.

“Office Web Applications, the online companion to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications will allow you to access documents from anywhere. You can even simultaneously share and work on documents with others online,” says Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Website.

Microsoft office vs Google Docs

MS-DOS Commands to Run Program

Windows OS run commands:

1. Accessibility Controls – access.cpl
2. Accessibility Wizard – accwiz
3. Add Hardware Wizard – hdwwiz.cpl
4. Add/Remove Programs – appwiz.cpl
5. Administrative Tools – control admintools
6. Automatic Updates – wuaucpl.cpl
7. Bluetooth Transfer Wizard – fsquirt
8. Calculator – calc
9. Certificate Manager – certmgr.msc
10. Character Map – charmap

Top 10 Mistakes of Bill Gates

Bill Gates is considered as a great man. Many people look up to him. And a lot of people are inspired by his life. But then again like any other human being he also has his own mistakes. Here are the top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates

10. The man created a software monopoly and in return he got so many lawsuits for it.Bill Gates is still fighting with lawsuits.The source on wikipedia clearly stated that

"United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 U.S. states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor.The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U.S. Justice Department and the Attorneys General of twenty U.S. states suing Microsoft for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly."

Windows 7 - The Fastest Selling OS Ever

Microsoft sold nearly 10 copies of Windows 7 every second over the last month, according to numbers the company released Thursday.Yesterday, Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer, told Wall Street analysts of the latest Windows 7 milestone. "With 175 million licenses sold to date, it is the fastest selling operating system ever, and now runs on over 15% of all PCs worldwide," Klein said during an afternoon earnings call.

Microsoft Windows 7

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