Microsoft — or perhaps someone else whom Microsoft definitely pays — has created howsoftwareisbuilt.com, where Microsoft apparently tries to promote itself and ‘embrace’ the FOSS world (here is the latest interview). In the homepage, the site also links to the company’s anti-GNU/Linux pages (“compare” site). How demeaning. Notice the footer which clearly states: “How Software is Built is [...]

Microsoft SharePoint is a collection of products and software elements that is generally used to host web sites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined applications such as wikis and blogs. Installing Sharepoint on your computer requires you to have an active Internet connection. The installation is seriously [...]

The .NET Framework is a Microsoft offering and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform. It includes a large library of coded solutions to common programming problems and a virtual machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. Recently, ASP.NET [...]

Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site. This was a reaction to an bug in VBScript that Polish researcher Maurycy Prodeus had revealed Friday. The vulnerability could enable hackers  to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft noted that hackers exploiting the VBScript flaw [...]

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 [...]

It is believed that Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7, will be launched in the World Mobile Congress at Barcelona on 15 February. Microsoft has not officially made any announcement regarding the Windows Mobile 7. However, some details believed to be that of the said operating system has been leaked.
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This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.
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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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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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In this article we will tell you how to Create Powerpoint Handouts in Word.

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 [...]

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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Busy professionals and computer entrepreneurs generally spend most of their time on their  personal computers. Syncing and being able to control your mobile phones right from your computer is something which every busy computer professional looks for. In this article we will tell you how to use a tool called MyMobileR to control your Windows [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CHM is a Microsoft Corp baby. This file format according to me is one of the best things to have happened to computing world. CHM file format facilitates archiving of millions of html files into onesingle file, including the images and all. Now, Linux boxes and mac boxes don`t have built-in support for handling CHM [...]

Microsoft Document Imaging Format (or MDI)  is a proprietary image format developed by Microsoft for storing raster images of scanned documents. The files saved in MDI format can only be opened using Microsoft Software such as Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) or Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
But we are not concerned about the technicalities of the MDI [...]