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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup with AT&T, T-Mobile

Microsoft officially unveiled its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system Monday, announcing that it will be available on a total of five devices in the U.S. Windows Phone 7 handsets from AT&T and T-Mobile will begin shipping in November, while devices from Sprint and Verizon will be available next year. All the devices announced Monday […]

Microsoft Fixes 13 Vulnerabilities in Windows, Office

Microsoft has released nine security bulletins, four of which include a maximum rating of critical, addressing a total of 13 vulnerabilities. Several of these are serious, but there are important mitigating factors on them, and users of the most recent products (especially Windows 7 and Office 2010) are least affected. Among the four critical bugs […]

What Ever Happened to Windows Phone 7?

Earlier this year, Microsoft® announced Windows® Phone 7 (initially called Windows Phone 7 Series), which will become its next offering in the mobile operating system market. In conjunction with the announcement, Amadeus Consulting also announced that we are offering preliminary development of custom applications for Windows Phone 7 so that companies can have applications ready […]

Windows 8 Should Virtualize Everything

The next Microsoft Windows operating system should put everything—and I mean everything—in a sandbox. There was a time when I disagreed with the idea that the core of Microsoft’s next major operating system, Windows 8, would be a hypervisor, or virtualized machine monitor. Now, however, I see the beauty of this approach, especially for consumers. […]

Windows 1.0: Happy Birthday

Here’s a walk down memory lane with Windows 1.0 and me. Windows 7 Windows version 1.0, which did not set the world on fire, is now 25 years old this month, and I’d like to share a few remembrances of the OS. First of all, it was useless. Like, seriously useless. But it was strangely […]

How to Fix a Slow Windows 7 Computer in Minutes

Windows 7 from Microsoft had made a great impact with its cool features and interactive Graphic User Interface (GUI). It has avenged the RAM issues of Windows Vista by using lesser RAM space for GUI attributes and the speed troubles of Windows XP by intelligently utilizing RAM usage. However, like its successors, when the hard […]

Find Out What’s Not Working in Windows 7

You may have problems with hardware you don’t even know about. Here’s a way to check for these and correct them. I recently had to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a friend’s laptop. Easy, right? Boot from the installer disk, and let Windows download all the appropriate drivers. Best online Microsoft MCTS […]

Tip: Resizing Photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery

A colleague recently needed to both crop images to a square aspect ratio and resize them down to thumbnail size. At first glance, Windows Live Photo Gallery, the free downloadable image editor for Windows 7 and Vista, seemed to offer no help. But a little peering into the app showed it was completely up to […]

Microsoft Hotmail Bug Affected 17K Users

Microsoft on Monday said its Hotmail problem affected more than 17,000 users, but insisted that the problem has since been resolved. Starting December 30, Windows Live Hotmail users trying to access their e-mail were met with empty inboxes. The problem affected 17,355 accounts, which saw their sent messages, inbox, and folders disappear. Best online Microsoft […]

Microsoft Confirms Zune for Mac Software Coming in 2010

A version of Microsoft’s Zune software will be available for Apple Macs by year’s end, the company said this week. “Later in 2010 Microsoft will make a public beta available of a tool that allows Windows Phone 7 to sync select content with Mac computers,” Microsoft said in a statement. As a result, Windows Phone […]

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