Extra-ordinary achivement by Microsoft as they won IDEA 2011 people’s popluar choice award for Windows Phone yesterday.
The Industrial Designers Society of America gave out 3 awards to Microsoft on their IDEA 2011 ceremonial occasion on Saturday. The Windows Phone design team acquired the worthy People’s Choice Award, an award gave to the favorite IDEA 2011 god award winner. Windows Phone as well collected awards for Interaction. The Windows Phone...
‘Charms’ are controls (search, share, devices, settings and a button to get back to Start) that pop up when you swipe right in Windows 8, the lastest Microsoft Windows platform for Tablets and PCs. Microsoft has filed away a registration U.S. trademark enrollment for its new Charm feature in Windows 8.
The company filed its enrollment to registar for the word CHARM on Sep 12. The CHARM trademark is filed away in the category of Computer &...
Microsoft unveiled its developer preview of Windows 8 this week, and its comparisons with other operating systems in the market has started to getting heat. Tom Warren of WinRumors has done a impressive comparison with currently king of tablets – the iPad 2 with iOS 5.
The comparison starts with the lock screens on both devices, The Windows lock screen looks great, more identical, this surely gives more ideas between Apple and Microsoft on...
Microsoft finally showed the Windows 8 which is the new version of Windows and also released its developer preview today. This preview version is available to download for all, not just developer like Apple’s preview products.
This is a great approach by Microsoft for giving the access to all users with free of charge and without requiring a registration. In past Microsoft only allowed the previous preview versions to limited range of developers...
After last week their acquisition of Skype for $8.5 Billion, rumors are that Microsoft is now working on a big deal to buy Nokia’s mobile division very soon.
This rumor comes from a well known Russian technology based analyst Elder Murtazin, who thinks that Microsoft and Nokia will sign this deal probably next week.
If we see the stats, Microsoft still having good figures for its Windows Phone 7 in competition with Apple’s iOS and...
Its official, Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5 billion. The rumors has been around since last night that Redmond based software giant is very close to file a deal with telephony giant Skype. ” Skype was first sold for $2.5b to eBay in 2005, who in turn sold most of it off to Silver Lake in 2009 at an overall valuation of $2.75b, and now Redmond is concluding proceedings by tripling those earlier prices and offering Skype a permanent home....
Things are clear between three major giants Microsoft, Google and Facebook to acquire Skype, But it appears that Microsoft has an edge here with more aggressive bid. After WSJ report, Kara of AllThingsD has now confirmed that Microsoft has indeed bought Skype for a staggering amount of $8.5 Billion.
Earlier reports indicated that Facebook and Google were also trying to acquire the telephony giant, but in the end, it was Microsoft with its highly...
Sometimes we can’t imagine that how technology is making our lives much easier day by day. Every new day we have a new product. So, today I am talking about one of the best product designed in 2011 till yet. At the 2011 International CES in Las Vegas, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. unveiled the next generation of the Microsoft Surface experience featuring Pixel Sense technology, which gives LCD panels the power to see without the...
After great success of Windows 7 and its user friendly experience we all are waiting for a new extra ordinary operating system ( Windows 8 ) from Microsoft. But we all have to wait to feel the real Windows 8 but if you can’t wait then you are still lucky, thanks to DeviantArt user for Windows 8 skin pack for Windows 7.
This user’s name is Hameddanger at DeviantArt, and this clever fellow has made a theme pack which will change your Windows...
Microsoft have sold over 8 million Kinect units in just 60 days since launch. Chief executive of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, announced today. He also mentioned that we were expecting to sell 5 million units in 2010 but this huge figure of course is incredible.
Microsoft’s Xbox & Kinect for Xbox 360 figures in 2010:
• 8 million: Number of Kinects sold in first 60 days
• 50 million: Xbox 360s sold to date
• 30 million: Number of Xbox LIVE...
Microsoft today announced that they have managed to sold over 2.5 Million Kinect for Xbox 360 units worldwide in just 25 days since launch. Full press release is as follows:
REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 29, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that strong demand over the Black Friday weekend has propelled retail sales of Kinect for Xbox 360 to more than 2.5 million units worldwide since it launched just 25 days ago.
“We are thrilled about the consumer...
After the announcement of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS , several companies are now providing this OS in many handsets. HTS and LG are one of them.
So, If you people are interested in buying HTC Surround , LG Quantum or Samsung Focus then its time to have it because Microsoft Store is actually giving some wonderful deals . One can get it in $199.99 just have to sign up a new contract with AT & T. This is not the end, T-Mobile is also offering ...
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