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Microsoft search boss: 'Silk Road' will lead to greater market share

Microsoft search boss: 'Silk Road' will lead to greater market shareNo ...because their minds are set on market share first.^0^Relevance, relevance, relevance...Give me relevance - that what I want to find, I do find.Silk Road...How Originalhttp://www.joymax.com/silkroad/Try to come up with something someone else hasn't used for a name.Slippery Slope fits...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Slippery Slope, Aero, Microsoft Corp., Silk Road, Aero graphic, Microsoft Windows Vista, graphics

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

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My top three Windows 7 annoyances ... and some fixes!

I totaly disagreeYou sound like you're going through menopause!Where's the additional toolbars?One of the things that bugs the crap about me with Windows 7 is the lack of additional toolbars. When I reload a PC first thing I do is drag the "My computer" icon to the top of...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, computer, PC

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

2010 Toyota Prius

Photo gallery:2010 Toyota PriusAfter the success of its predecessor, the advent of the 2010 Toyota Prius created a lot of expectations. But instead of incorporating sought-after features such as a lithium ion battery pack or plug-in capability, Toyota opted for incremental changes, tweaking the power train to get more power...

Tags: Toyota Prius, Toyota Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2009-07-07

Design Icon Set 2009.1 (Windows)

Design Icon Set is a collection of royalty-free ready-made icons for use in commercial and personal products, including software applications, websites and presentations. The icons have been carefully created pixel by pixel by the professional artists. They shine with a bright palette of colors, smooth and well-rounded edges. Superb in...

Tags: Icon, Aha-soft, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Channel Management, Scanners, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-06-05

Is anyone WOWed by desktop wallpapers any more? Microsoft thinks so!

Is anyone WOWed by desktop wallpapers any more? Microsoft thinks so!I agreeAs I have said before, I'd love to see Microsoft start advertising features of Windows and not the eye candy."What can Windows do for you?"This is Apple's trickApple puts a lot of effort into eye candy. Same as MS....

Tags: Desktops, Eye-Candy, compiz-fusion, WOWed, desktop wallpaper, desktop, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

MemInfo 2.1 (Windows)

This software displays the current memory RAM or Page File usage of Windows in the system tray. With a small gauge graphic and the value updated in real time, MemInfo gives a fast feedback to current memory usage in Windows.It is highly customizable. Choose when MemInfo should warn you about...

Tags: Memory, Carthago Sofware, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-05-24

Windows 7: taming (and tweaking) the beast within

Zack Whittaker is busy saving the world once again. This post was set to be released now in his absence. I've spent a dull, dreary, wet, cold and windy day in Canterbury cooped up in the warm confines of my duvet, to bring you a bunch...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows 7, Window, Key, Zack Whittaker, OK, How-To Geek Blog, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Construction, Software

Blog posts 2009-01-22

A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)

A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)Sad, but Snipping Tool is still the sameIn classic MS fashion, the snipping tool is not able to capture the borders of all aero themed windows neatly, for e.g. the Firefox "About" dialog box. Sadly this has not changed even in Windows 7...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

HP Compaq cq50-139wm

The Compaq CQ50-139WM makes other entry-level laptops look positively luxurious. We recently reviewed four entry-level models from Best Buy, and they cost $500 and higher. Wal-Mart sold the Compaq CQ50-139WM for $298 during a one-day sale on November 8, 2008. It's not available online through Wal-Mart's Web site. The...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq CQ50-139WM, Compaq Computer Corp., laptop computer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., processor

Product reviews 2008-11-10

Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to do

Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to doShould Windows go incremental?Would you welcome more incremental updates to the OS rather than a big release every few years? Why or why not?RE: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to doGreat article.I don't think the incremental approach would work well for most...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, O.S, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, Microsoft NEEDS

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Microsoft pushes idea of "Apple tax"

Microsoft pushes idea of "Apple tax"upgrade tax?all the mac laptops are upgradable in terms of ram and hard disk. what else do you need to upgrade on a laptop?I think MS should push for Apple salesThe first piece of software that gets installed on a Mac is Windows and at...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Apple Inc., tax, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Windows 7 to get new touch features

Windows 7 to get new touch featuresMimicing UIMicrosoft is losing market share to the mac. One large reason many young people are switching is because the user interface of the OSX and Apple applications is much more aesthetically pleasing and cleaner. I know this from talking to many...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Keyboards, keyboard-and-mouse, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, computer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test

Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking testXP outshines Vista...what a surprise...NOT!In the last 3 decades, new larger OSes have meant slower, more resource hungry OSes. I know of only one exception to that trend and that is for a remote access machine, an apple and orange comparison.I'd be interested...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, benchmarking, benchmarking test

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X Leopard

Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X LeopardSome of the transparency seems sillyEspecially the menu bar but I think there is an app out there that will get rid of that for you. I haven't used Leopard so I cannot attest to liking it's transparency, or not, but...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Transparency, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mac OS X Leopard, vengeance, Apple Macintosh, transparency, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2007-10-31

Virtual Address Space Usage in Windows Game Development

Windows Vista significantly improved the way in which the operating system handles the Graphic Processing Unit GPU. The Windows Vista Display Driver Model WDDM enables better sharing of GPU resources among multiple graphics applications. The video memory manager component of WDDM virtualizes the available video memory resources for applications to...

Tags: Game, Video Memory, Video, Corporate Communications, Memory, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2007-08-02

Maybe they're smarter than I thought

Maybe they're smarter than I thoughtrecommend that you atleast know little bit before you speak like authority"I have come to appreciate the Windows environment, not for its technical superiority (in my mind, UNIX still reigns supreme) but for its accessibility to everyone."I'd recommend that you atleast read 'Inside Windows 2000'...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, Aero, graphics, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-06-25

One Laptop Per Salesman

One Laptop Per SalesmanI wish Palm were going after this marketI really think the Palm offering is grossly underpowered. I don't think they have the kind of sourcing needed to get the price-performance of the hardware where it needs to be in order to sell.Dell does, however. So does H-P....

Tags: Notebooks, recycling, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2007-05-31

Vista users' frustrations with Nvidia come to a head

Vista users' frustrations with Nvidia come to a headNot just the high end cards.I recently bought a new PC with Vista and an nVidia 7600 GS card. With the installed drivers the card wouldn't maintain any color management settings I did. Exit the nVidia control panel and restart it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Vista Users, kicker, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

My take on the best and worst Windows ever

My buddy Ed Bott, who has much better credentials to be doing this sort of thing than I do, has weighed in with his report card on every version of Windows that has been released. In his post, Ed rates each version on a scale from 1 to 10 and...

Tags: Tablets, Instant messaging, Notebooks, Desktops, IM, Apple Macintosh, operating system, tool, Microsoft Windows, tablet PC, tablet

Blog posts 2007-03-17

The Vista question is about want, not need

ZDNet has a lot of coverage on the forthcoming release of Microsoft Windows Vista next Tuesday, as does every major news outlet – Im looking at the Wall St. Journal, USA Today, and LA Times this morning in my suite at the Beverly Hilton and Vista is everywhere. A majority...

Tags: Software, Vista, Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-01-26