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Many a student or office worker will remember spending long sleepless nights on Microsoft Office, praying to Bill Gates that the program wouldn’t die on you, nor would the evil Mr. Clippy come and ask you,
“It appears you are writing a letter. Would you like help with it?”
You bang your hands on the keyboard in [...]

Microsoft has released the final version of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). You can download it for free HERE.
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept [...]

New, from Microsoft’s education labs and development, comes software that is supposedly going to revolutionize the classroom. At least, it’ll save a few trees from destruction… The company has just announced a ‘Math Worksheet Generator’ where teachers can create… Math Worksheets, and email them to their students to solve. In addition to this Worksheet Generator, [...]

With a recent article on Netbooks,  it seems fitting that there should be a list of applications and gadgets that every Netbook user should have. Unfortunately, I haven’t really researched a lot of Linux applications, so the applications below are geared towards users with Windows XP and above installed on their system. Importantly, users of [...]

With Modern Warfare 2 being released within 2 months, ODST will be released in around 23 days. Perhaps it’s a move on Microsoft’s part in trying to get into the game crazed world that will follow after 11/10/09. However, the game is going to be exclusive to the Xbox 360 for at least a year. [...]

Microsoft’s has made another ad for their search engine, Bing. This ad is focused on Bing Cashback which is a program that allows users to save money when they purchase items found using Bing search.

A Game Informer survey of 5,000 readers found that the Xbox 360 has a mind blowing 54.2% failure rate. Sony’s Playstation 3 had a failure rate of 10.6% and Nintendo’s Wii had a failure rate of 6.8%; both significantly better than the Xbox.

Also according to the survey, about 41% of those Xbox 360 owners [...]

Bing is beginning to claw it’s way upwards in terms of Market Share, with another series of statistics showing that it has increased it’s share from 8.5% to 8.9% this Month. The data itself is quite interesting, with statistics proving that the gap between the Demi-God Google, and Bing is not as cataclysmic as once [...]

Microsoft has revealed details of the soon to be released Zune HD. It has also available for pre-order (currently at Amazon and at the Microsoft Store). It is planned to be released on the 15th of September and is available in 5 different colours. The 18GB model is sell for $220 and the [...]

Windows 7 is just around the corner. Here’s what’s Microsoft told the public so far in regards to the upgrade pricing of Windows 7:
Below is a table of the cost of upgrading to Windows 7 from Vista or XP.

Windows 7 Product Edition
Price
Vista price
Savings
Savings (%)

Home Premium (Upgrade)
$119.99
$129.99
($10.00)
8%

Professional (Upgrade)
$199.99
$199.99
-
-

Ultimate (Upgrade)
$219.99
$219.99
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-

Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU) makes upgrading the version [...]