Category Archives: Microsoft

The Importance of Microsoft Updates

Due to the frequency of the emergence of new malware and viruses, Microsoft regularly releases security patches and updates for your software. It is highly recommended that you install these patches and updates upon their release. Before you do, make a full back up and/or set a restore point as changes to your OS can carry risk. [...]
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Microsoft Research

Whilst Apple is often referred to in the context of innovation, quite a few products have been invented by the minds at Microsoft Research. Some of these include: Windows – Text-to-speech and speech recognition, included in Windows 2000 and Vista, Xbox – Kinect motion capture and body part recognition, Bing – Photosynth, a system for [...]
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Microsoft’s Closer to Purchasing Skype

Microsoft is one step closer to initiating it’s largest take over with the European Commission approving the software giant’s acquisition of Skype. The commission did not see a marked overlap in areas of competition within consumer communications, stating that they ‘only overlapped in video communications’. Microsoft is set to pay nearly three times’ Skype’s market value [...]
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New Graphics Options in HTML5

Microsoft have posted a handy little video on the new graphics options that have become available with the release of HTML5. Handy for designing web applications http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-summit/internet-explorer-9.aspx
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Latest Microsoft Update Security Features

The latest Microsoft update includes version 2 of Security Essentials which offers some new features to keep your computer better protected. Some impressive inclusions are deeper hooks into the Windows firewall, opt-in rather than opt-out functions, a quicker scan time, automatic updates, the ability to set a system restore point and customise how much MSE [...]
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Microsoft’s OneNote App

The first Microsoft specific app to cross into iOS territory is One Note. The app, released mid January brings Microsoft Office’s OneNote program to iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. OneNote helps users to get organised, giving them one place to collate ideas and create lists. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onenote/id410395246?mt=8#
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Apple Beats Out Microsoft’s Value…By A Lot! – by Scott Crawford

I just read an interesting article about Apple (http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/apple-eats-microsoft/) It appears their market capital is now on $330 billon US – that’s 100 Billion more than Microsoft – yes 100 billion!! To put that in perspective – they were around 200 billon this time last year – so that’s 100 billion of growth in 12 [...]
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The Rivalry Continues

In another chapter of the ongoing competition between Microsoft and Apple, Microsoft has filed a motion requesting that Apple be denied the trademark on ‘App Store’. With the emergence of other companies including Microsoft developing their own apps and their own avenues for selling them, Microsoft says that it’s not fair Apple have a monopoly [...]
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Maintenance for Your PC

See Microsoft’s guide on how to speed up your PC with these 5 steps http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx
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