Microsoft shares the clips from Family Guy promoting Windows 7
Microsoft has released a couple of clips from the Family Guy episode that was to be aired around the launch of Windows 7.
The US based software giant had sponsored this show to highlight their Windows 7 OS launch.
The program airing was discarded for some [...]

sobees is another alternative Twitter client
Most of you would already know about TweetDeck and Seesmic.
sobees is another player in this market providing free Twitter clients.
sobees has on offer three different clients. One is a web based one which is powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology.
Second one is a desktop edition for Windows users [...]

Windows 7 market-share is now bigger than Mac OS X
Market analysts have reported that Windows 7 has gained enough market share to overtake Mac OS X.
In fact, Windows 7 is now used by more users than customers of all the versions of Mac OS X.
Net Applications said in a statement: “It’s safe to [...]

Microsoft to launch transliteration tools for Indian languages
Microsoft has announced that they would soon launch transliteration tools for Indian languages.
The initial goal is to support languages including Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam.
These tools would enable users to type content in English language which would be converted to other languages.
Google [...]

Google Chrome Frame 4.0.255.0 released

Google Chrome developers have released a new version of their Google Chrome Frame add-on for Internet Explorer.
This is a bug fix edition.
Changelog:
Empty user directories are properly deleted when Google Chrome Frame is un-installed. (Issue: 27483)
Crash fixes (Issues: 27414, 27695, 27662)
Ensure that the renderer has focus when ChromeFrame navigates [...]

Windows 7 featured on Family Guy

Twitter: Selling is not an option. IPO is.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said it again. They have no plans to sell the company to any of the web biggies like Google or Microsoft.
The company is here to stay and might opt for an IPO in the coming years.
Stone did say that they are closing [...]

Microsoft might launch Windows 8 in 2012
If we are to believe the Microsoft road-map, the successor to Windows 7 would arrive sometime in 2012.
Microsoft however has a bad history of coming out with two great operating systems in succession.
The company has just launched Windows 7 which has been called the best release from [...]

Microsoft Silverlight 4 beta already out
Microsoft has released the first beta of Silverlight 4.
The software giant is aiming to release the final edition sometime next year.
Microsoft Silverlight technology is designed as an alternative to Adobe Flash.
AJAX and HTML5 have also become potential competitors on the web. On the desktop front, Adobe [...]

Microsoft introduces Fishbowl desktop client for Facebook
Microsoft uxlabs have released a new desktop application for the Windows platform.
Fishbowl uses the Facebook stream APIs to provide access to the popular social networking platform using a desktop client.
It is a technology showcase so the application is not supported by the company.

It uses several [...]