If Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner is to be believed, Microsoft is getting ready to roll out IE version 9 this September. According to several recent leaks, Microsoft had been targeting August as its beta delivery target for IE 9. This beta is expected to be public (as the test previews have been), and to feature more of the user interface elements. On July 29, Neowin.net reposted... 

IE6? Are we still talking about that? It is like complaining about rotary telephones. Who on earth uses IE6 anyway? Well, apart from grannies and grandpas (no offense)! Well, wait. If you’re a web developer you know what I’m talking about. And how this old browser is costing the industry in terms of hours of work and billions of dollars. And sadly, as long as Windows XP is around so... 

This is one invention that has great ability to change your childhood notion about “how to insert a battery” and it has every potential to turn a “Microsoft hater” into their fanboy! How many times did you feel frustrated because a device refused to work because you put the batteries in the wrong direction? But thanks to Microsoft’s new revolutionary battery technologyInstaLoad... 

A new fashion seems to have come into existence from the search for new and creative tattoos. Some people have started using the space in their bodies to depict their obsession or unconditional love towards technology. Things from different aspects of technology are taken for the purpose of tattooing and it can be anything of the range from programming language and logos to keyboard symbols. Though... 

The three mentioned in the title are the most popular internet browsers around the world, with Firefox topping the list.  Internet Explorer used to come as standard for all PC users, but now with new PCs it comes as an option with a few more ready to choose from.  Safari is Apple’s trademark on the Internet Browsing web.  It is also the Browser used on the iPod and iPhone.  However there are... 

Due to a lack of user interest, Microsoft announced plans to end the Bing cashback program on July 30. There is no denying that Bing’s Double Cashback promotion served up some great deals. But apparently they were so good(!) that Microsoft had to end the deal. Microsoft on Friday said it would pull the plug at 9 p.m. Pacific time, July 30. The feature offered users cashback on items bought through... 

If you use a computer (yes even a Mac) you get error messages. Most of the time, they are frustrating but you got to admit that there are times when they look so funny and hilarious that they actually look adorable (in a strange way). We have decided to compile a list of top 10 (11, actually) world’s funniest Windows error messages that would make you laugh and cry at the very same time. So be... 

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users could be exposed to malware attacks, Microsoft has warned users on May 18, 2010. The announcement, made on Microsoft’s Security Response Center blog, involves the Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) and affects Windows 7 x64, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium operating systems. This is not the first time Windows 7 was found... 

I believe in the saying  “nothing is useless and everything serves its purpose in one way or another“. I had always wondered about Internet Explorer’s purpose of being in the world till I saw this image that brings out the purpose of the browser (who said that IE is the most infamous browser and is of no use?): The ONLY thing Internet Explorer is Good for is Downloading Firefox... 

With Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft introduced a new set of file formats: .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx, all not compatible with previous Microsoft Office versions. So if somebody sends you a Word 2007 document and you use Word XP, an error message awaits you. These are kind of situations when you wish if you were using some web based office suite services and not MS Office! Why Office 2007 documents... 

Looks like just about everyone here, including IE 7, wants poor IE 6 (Internet Explorer 6) to go home and retire! via: 9gag Some facts About IE6: IE 6 came out a few weeks before the Twin Towers fell. It came out before the Nintendo GameCube. It came out before the first iPod.So many people (including Govt. of Germany and even Microsoft themself) feel that it’s time to put a deadline on dropping... 

Microsoft this week released a “platform preview” of Internet Explorer 9. This isn’t an IE9 beta, mind you; it doesn’t have the features you’d expect in a browser. It doesn’t even have an address bar for that matter. Instead, the IE9 Platform Preview serves as a sneak peek at some of the new web technologies and standards that Microsoft is working on building... 

Microsoft Office is a great productivity suite to take care of your office needs but there are two negative points that forces it’s users to wish if they had an alternative. The main disadvantages with MS Office suite are: 1. You can not carry it everywhere with you. e.g. Lets say you are on a holiday trip and purposefully left your laptop back at home (because you didn’t want to be distracted... 

Ignore Sites that nag to Press the Help key, says Microsoft’s Zero-day Bug Advisory If you’re still using Windows XP, Microsoft has a piece of security advice for you: don’t hit F1! Microsoft has told Windows XP users not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet... 

It is February and it is time to update some patches. A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. This ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old... 

Last week it was the launch of Apple iPad and now the internet is all abuzz with the news about the Windows Mobile 7 that is going to be presented at MWC. Gizmodo is reporting that the “Zune Phone”…  but hey wait, there is no Zune Phone. Everyone is pretty safe saying that Windows Mobile 7 will debut at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona in about two weeks. This isn’t... 

Within few days after admitting that Chinese Hackers exploited Internet Explorer flaw to attack Google Microsoft has released patch for the ‘Google Hack’ flaw in IE. The patch will fix vulnerabilities in IE6, IE7, and IE8 on supported editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2—vulnerabilities notably... 

If you had a chance to try out Office 2010 Beta, you would know that there’s plenty of changes in Microsoft Word 2010. While it would be easy to dismiss the following five, they could noticeably improve your experience of the software. Here are five little features that will improve Word 2010 for users:  Read More →

ComScore has released a list of the top smartphone operating systems by market share in the United States in October. Who’s on top? Research in Motion (but for how much longer?), followed by Apple, then Microsoft, Palm, Symbian, and finally Google. The guys at FierceDeveloper have put together this nifty chart showing the top smartphone operating systems by number of active users in the United... 

Microsoft says a security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser played a role in the recent computer attacks against Google and at least 20 other companies. The entire world has been talking about Google’s decision to not censor its China search engine after it became the victim of Chinese cyber attack. And while we’ve talked a great deal about its global implications and the censorship in China,...