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5 Must-have Free Apps from Microsoft

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1. Insomnia

Annoyed of your Windows 7 PC going to sleep while you’re downloading a big file or performing an operation in the background? Here’s a neat solution. Insomnia is a free application that will keep your computer from going into sleep mode while you finish your important tasks on your Windows 7 PC. To get back to the normal mode all you need to do is close the program window and that’s it.

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2. Virtual PC

Virtual PC enables you to run various different versions of Windows operating systems on your desktop. It’s the driving technology behind the popular Windows 7 XP Mode which allows you to run Windows XP in virtual environment to enable apps that you won’t be able to run on Windows 7 or other purposes.

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Microsoft Launching Zune-like Phone?

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Microsoft has always maintained that their main goal in the mobile phone world has been software. Apparently things are going to change pretty soon with the word being out that Microsoft is all set to launch a Windows Mobile 7 based mobile phone in the coming few months. If this is true then Microsoft’s much talked about ‘Pink‘ project might be back in the groove. The Microsoft phone might debut at Mobile World Conference during February next month or at CTIA, Las Vegas later.
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5 Features I Want From Project Natal

January 17, 2010

Now I’m not much of a gamer but I’d love to get my hands on a slick gaming console even if it’s just for causal gaming purposes. I had my eyes on Nintendo Wii for quite some time and then my friends wanted me to buy Mixrosoft Xbox 360 console instead. While I was in [...]

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Is Project Natal the future of gaming?

November 17, 2009

Microsoft wants ‘you’ to be the controller, that’s how they wowed everyone at E3 conference earlier this year. Microsoft calls it Project Natal. It is expected to to be available worldwide by November 2010. It’ll be launched along with 14 games and, hold on to your horses, will be priced at around $80-100. Yes you [...]

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Windows 7 RTM is coming this August

July 22, 2009

After so much speculation and rumors floating all over about the release-to-manufactoring date of Microsoft’s Windows 7 the real dates are finally out. It’s still unclear whether the much hyped build 7600 is the one Microsoft is going to RTM with.

MSDN and TechNet subscribers shall be one of the first few to taste [...]

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Google Announces Google Chrome OS

July 8, 2009

Google today announced the Google Chrome Operating System project. Google’s operating system shall be an open source, light operating system. It’s supposed to be targeted at netbooks beginning 2010. It’s also targeted at kicking Microsoft’s arse. The operating system will be available for general consumers by the end of 2010.
Google claims it’s designing it’s [...]

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Windows 7 RC is coming in May!

April 14, 2009

From what appears to be a mistake from Microsoft’s end has led to the news that the Windows 7 Release Candidate is coming out as soon as next month. Yes that’s May! Microsoft had earlier claimed that it’ll release only one release candidate for it’s Windows 7 operating system. This will then be followed by [...]

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Win $20,000 with Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Contest

March 17, 2009

Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Contest is looking for college and university student photographers from across the globe to submit their original photos and grab the ultimate prize of $20,000 as the grand prize along with some other amazing goodies.

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