Microsoft has releases a preview of Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX conference. They did not say it explicitly, but by now it is pretty clear that its new browser will not be supported in Windows Xp.
This is what Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch said:
Building a modern browser requires a modern operating system.
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At its Mix Conference at Las Vegas, Microsoft gave a preview of what is to come with its next web-browser Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, which is a prototype to show how IE9 will handle the current web technologies and the new ones to come.
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Microsoft is planning to introduce 59 new Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for both Windows 7 and Office 2010. The LIPs will be also available for Visual Studio 2010.In addition to this, Microsoft will also be provide customers with new Caption Language Interface Packs (CLIP) which will make it possible for the software’s [...]

Starting next week, Microsoft’s automated Windows Update service will present users with a “Web browser choice screen” as required by a settlement agreed with the European Commission’s competition department last year. Next week’s rollout will be available as part of a testing process to some users in the UK, Belgium and France. It will be rolled [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo announced this morning that both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have approved an agreement between the two firms to have Microsoft’s Bing search engine power Yahoo’s sites. Microsoft and Yahoo engineers will now start working together to adapt Bing for Yahoo. The partnership means Yahoo will selling premium [...]

Earlier, we reported about Microsoft’s official launch of its highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 Series. We were generally impressed with the new Zune interface that the overhaul has brought about in the OS. However, OS does contain some notable backward steps.
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There is a good news and a bad news. The good news is that your business is expanding and growing at a pretty fast pace. And the bad news is that the pace is just too fast for your good old email solution to handle and deep down you already know that it just won’t [...]

Today at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, Microsoft has finally released its new operating system for mobile phones named as Windows Phone 7 Series. This is a very ambitious new product from Microsoft. The Windows Phone 7 Series is a brand new in every sense. Microsoft have done away with almost all that has [...]

We already informed you about former Vice President of Microsoft Dick Brass’s article in The New York Times where he accused Microsoft for not being innovative anymore. This article seems to have cause stomach-ache to Microsoft as it counters Dick Brass’s argument by saying that innovation is not only about ideas but also about [...]

Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, wrote an article in The New York Times in which he speaks out against what he calls “Creative Destruction” in Microsoft. In the article, he discussed why Microsoft is no longer the company leading the technology revolution that it was some years ago.
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Windows 7 Release Candidate was released way back in May, 2009 with an expiry date of 1st June, 2010. So that means we still have 4 odd months left, right? Wrong! Come March, the systems running Windows 7 RC will automatically shut down every two hours without prompting and saving your work. And the [...]

Citrix Systems, a Florida based company providing virtualization and remote access softwares, has announced that the new version of their Citrix Reciever Software will be able bring to Microsoft’s Windows 7 Operating System in Apple’s iPad. Citix System says that their software will be available in time for the iPad’s shipping date.
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According to a report in Bussiness Week, Apple is talking with Microsoft to replace the default search engine in iPhones to Bing. As of now Google is the default search engine in iPhones and if users want to use Bing, they have to either download an app or go to www.bing.com.
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exFAT is the modern version of its predecessor – the FAT filesystem. It expands the size of files that flash memory devices can handle, to a great extent. The exFAT file system facilitates large files for use of audiovisual media, seamless data portability and an easy interchange between desktop PCs and consumer electronic devices. Here [...]

MSN has revamped their good old homepage and have given it a completely new look to it, which is less cluttered making it more usable.

Microsoft has launched  an online app called The H1N1 Swine Flu Response Center which  helps  you find out whether you have the symptoms of swine flu (H1N1 flu). This app is actually a Self Assessment test that helps you find out if you have the symptoms of swine flu and help you decide what to [...]

Microsoft has finally released its much awaited ….ahem…. anti-virus, anti-spyware solution today. Codenamed “Morro” during its development stages, this piece of software has been in development for almost a year and now it is known as ” Security Essentials “. We earlier reported to you about the beta release of this software, and this time [...]

Finally Microsoft CEO did something which Microsoft usually don’t do, even by mistake. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, while speaking at company’s Venture Capital Summit, openly admitted that they have screwed up with Windows Mobile 7 (as if that was something totally unexpected!).

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This is our second installment to the series ‘Operating Systems that power your mobile phones’. You can read the previous part here.

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Recently Microsoft was in the news for its training materials for Best Buy employees, which falsely claims Windows’ “superiority” over Linux. Not even a week has passed  since that incident than a serious security flaw affecting Windows Vista and the yet-to-be-released Windows 7 has been reported.
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Microsoft released a chart explaining the the upgrade path of Windows Xp and Windows Vista users to Windows 7. This chart was sent by Microsoft to Walter S. Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal. The chart is shown below:
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It seems that almost everyone is on twitter these days. And I personally feel, Twitter is slowly  becoming the new RSS. You can notify anything new to the world using a simple tweet from twitter. A few weeks back, Google had released a list of twitter accounts that belong to them. In this post we [...]

Windows Live brings to you some really amazing and exclusive downloads such as free wallpapers, Desktop screensavers, wallpapers and messenger theme packs.

We are starting a new series of articles on Digitizor titled – “Killer Keyboard Shortcuts”. In this  series we will bring to you a number of useful keyboard shortcuts for various softwares and tools. This will make you finish your work faster thus you become more productive. To begin with, we will tell you about [...]