Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

Windows 7 Going RC

Friday, March 13th, 2009

  [caption id="attachment_654" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="Windows 7"][/caption] After fixing the thousand bugs fixes from the beta are we going to see a RC candidate soon ? Here's few more changes from beta to RC. Improved taskbar thumbnail overflow Control Panel Jump List PowerShell Jump List Remote Desktop Jump List Applying taskbar settings Multi-touch zoom  Invert Selection Going up? Finding music by artist New ...

Gears of War 2 Secrets

Monday, December 8th, 2008

They gave us a secret message at the end of the credits... via youtube

Amazon EC2 Running Windows Server

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I just came across this link a few minutes ago. http://aws.amazon.com/windows/ From Amazon, Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be ...

Microsoft and Nokia adopt jQuery

Monday, September 29th, 2008

he jQuery blog today announced that 'Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform.  So the open-source javascript framework will be shipped with Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC. This is kickass news because JQuery is just.. kickass

Unboxing Australias first Microsoft Surface table

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The first Microsoft Surface table has been shiped outside the US. These crates are heavy. Around 125kg each. You don't see a piece of hardware shipped on a skid wrapped in wood very often. I can see the day when i need a  crow bar to open my desktop ordered. ...

Microsfot Multi-Touch Surface

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Interesting technology. The inovation looks not in the software as it was probaly already developped but the hardware for the sphere is definitly worth to look. Imagine having this in your lobby. It would create a buzz for sure. via Gizmodo

Direct X 11 Coming With a Bang

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Direct X 11 is coming with an interesting new feature. You get advancements in shading and better support for multi-core machines, but the brand new concept is letting programmers use the GPU in your video card to do some of the heavy lifting, meaning your graphics chip becomes a second, ...

Battle of the nerds

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Who is the worlds uber nerd? It's matter of opinions, my vote goes to Gates, he has true plans for curing Aids and his foundation helps millions of people around the world. In my book Gates is the perfect example of what a multi billionaire nerd should be, hats off ...

Microsoft Surface at Rio in Las Vegas

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Is this a sign of things to come ? Will we start to see Microsoft surface all over the place now ? I guess this is a good place to start.

Microsoft – Powerful Image Technology

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Interesting technology developed by Microsoft. See publicity/books/maps and picture a different way. via youTube