Microsoft has quietly discontinued its Genuine Advantage Validation for Office. Earlier when users want to install new add-ons or templates they have to go through the online Genuine Advantage Validation to make sure that their copy of Office is genuine. Microsoft dropped the OGA without making much noise, but ZDNet managed to dig up a…

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NYTimes reports that Microsoft’s CEO Steve Balmer might demonstrate a tablet and a few other companion devices running their next operating system, Windows 8.

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According to rumors originating from the website Windows 8 Italia, Windows 8 will have two different interfaces – one for the 32-bit version and the other for 64-bit version. The new interface which will be available with the 64-bit version is said to be codenamed “Wind”. According to the rumor, the system requirements for running…

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In case you’ve decided to take a break from Google and try out Bing, there are loads of ways you can work to get more out of your experience with Microsoft’s Bing Search.

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Office 365 is a cloud based offering from Microsoft that is intended to compete with Google’s Google Docs web-based software suite. Microsoft has started testing Office 365 for a limited number of users. Here are a few screenshots of it’s UI (User Interface).

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Evoluce has taken what we saw in Ubuntu to another level. They have developed a full gesture system to control Windows 7. It includes clicking, browsing the media center, web browsing, text input using an onscreen keyboard etc.

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With new cool hacks for Kinect coming up every other day, Microsoft has taken an u-turn from their earlier decision. Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it clear that they condone it. Update: Two more amazing kinect hacks

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To make user experience better, the IE team has been tuning the JavaScript engine for real world sites over the last few weeks. Based on this, an updated platform preview build (Version 7) for IE9 has been released for you to try.

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A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers.

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