Posts Tagged with ‘windows’

It looks like Microsoft is ready to try and compete everywhere when it comes to software - same as Google now does everywhere online. Today’s announcement is the product code-named “Morro”, security software targeted at end users of Windows operating systems. The anti-malware product will be available as a free download for all users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and upcoming Windows 7.
The product is promised to be not resource-intensive and will be able to run even on netbooks. I [...]

I was under impressed with Microsoft's Live.com Live Search page when it first came out, and have largely ignored it since. When a few of the people I follow on Twitter gave the new feature release today bad one line Twitter reviews, I felt compelled to revisit it and see what they were bothered about.
Looking over the "big news" from Microsoft I see… hot spots and images? Is that it? Wait, the hot spots also have fly overs. So, we [...]

Though not quite of the same vein as an earlier post on Nimbuzz, I stumbled across an example of a company looking to bring Mac integration to its product, which contrasts the rather limited nature of the Nimbuzz social platform .  ShowMyPC, classically known as Windows-specific software, has just been updated to allow users of Apple's popular operating system OS X to use the program as well, according to PR Web .
ShowMyPC is a program that allows users to [...]

It now looks like the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA) now has its first “project” to jump start the intentions of the newly created organization. Formed just last December, the engineering working group consists of a coalition of information and assistive technology companies (Microsoft, Adobe, HP, Novell, and GW Micro among others) with a goal of creating a set of standards to make it easier for developers to create accessible software, hardware and web products.
On Thursday, Microsoft publicly announced that its [...]

I finally decided to jump on the Vista “hate” bandwagon, so here goes: “I freaking hate Vista!” I know I am not alone in the world because I hear everyone complaining about the same things I do. We complain about incompatibility, graphic intensiveness, complicated, too different and on and on. How could so many of us have been fooled into believing that the first of any operating system released by Microsoft would reveal anything but trouble? One would think [...]

It was a match made most begrudgingly by two clashing factions, and one which often seemed far too uncomfortable for all involved and more trouble than it was worth to keep together. But it was nonetheless a partnership widely viewed as a critical compromise that would have to be maintained, against all odds, if the grander mission both parties had publicly pledged strongly to was to be achieved.
Well, so much for the value of good will. It appears Intel [...]

This recurring subject of the Windows-Internet Explorer bundle’s anti-competitive behavior, as was recently reported once more by the BBC, is, I must say, a very tired one.
Yes, it is true that Microsoft packages its Internet browser with its operating systems sold both off the shelf and as partially-subsidized software for most new PCs. And no, that is not the ideal scenario other software manufacturers – Mozilla and Opera, to name just a couple – favor. They would, generally [...]

The LeWeb 3 conference is underway, and since we highlighted yesterday a couple of startups slated to walk the stage at the event, we figure, why not another?
The next company we profile, dubbed eXo Platform, is a company with a diverse number of holdings in the Web software space. From developments in the realm of cloud-based operating systems, to specially-designed applications and utilities (email, client management, etc.), to those nifty little things we call widgets.
Having taken several glances at [...]

Up until this point Google Gadgets, the widgets or small applications that run in Google Desktop, were only available for versions of the Windows operating system. Although Mac OS X user have the Dashboard feature complete with a wide variety of downloadable widgets, Google's directory of more than 27,000 gadgets dwarfs the seemingly sparse collection of just over 3300 widgets in the Dashboard widget directory.
Now, however, Mac users will be able to use any of the Gadgets tomorrow, when Google [...]