What YOU can do with Windows!
Windows users often get a lot of flak from Apple fanboys about lack of the Operating systems’s ability to do shiny 3D UI stuff. However what most people (including Windows users) fail to understand is that Microsoft really wants the user to take control of the system and use it the way they want it. Which is why there exists such a vast 3rd party application library to do tasks from the most minute to the extremely complex ones. And the same applies to the UI aspect too; 3rd party applications give users an incredible amount of control so they can personalise anything from their wallpaper to the logon and boot screens.
I found these screenshots floating around on the internet with some claiming them to be that of Windows 7. But it doesn’t take a computer scientist to figure out the fake. However a lot of them are real interfaces built on 3rd party applications and they’re just what’s needed to prove my point. Windows is customisable to such an extent where you can completely change the look and feel of it beyond recognition. I’ll stop babbling right about here and let you have a look at them.
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Facebook is Microsoft’s rebound fling! Will we see a happy ending ?
After months of bickering, Microsoft and Yahoo did not tie the knot. The decision while celebrated by some, disappointed others, including Yahoo. Aw Yahoo I understand what is to be broken hearted.
Adding insult to injury is the news from WSJ reporting Microsoft’s bankers have informally approached Facebook over a possible acquisiton. Flashback time: Microsoft invested $240m for a 1.6% stake (which valued Facebook at $15bn) and was an all advertisement deal.
Knowing that, what Microsoft stands to gain from this deal is unimaginable. The affair with Yahoo was to try and build up a stronghold in the search and ad market (to compete with Google), and Facebook hasn’t (yet) been a strong ad platform as one would’ve thought it out to be. In fact, it is yet to present a sustainable source of revenue (1$ gifts can’t do it all). And if Microsoft has already locked up the pageviews, where do they go from there ?
I have to say as much as I love and respect Microsoft, Livebook doesn’t sound appealing to me.
I guess we’ll only have to see if Microsoft updates it’s relationship status from ‘It’s complicated’ to ‘In a relationship’, and at what point will Yahoo update its ‘Looking for’ ?
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HTC’s Best Yet! Touch Diamond
I would have been very disappointed had it been any other event where only one product was launched. But I’ve gotta hand it to HTC for making me excited yet again for their newest device, the HTC Touch Diamond. HTC has been in the market for many years now manufacturing devices for various companies including iMate and QTek; but only recently did they enter the retail market themselves and noone can argue they have done a brilliant job at it. All the devices they distribute themselves are manufactured to the highest quality, first examples that come to mind is the TyTn II and the Touch. The Touch Diamond is no different.
The specs are as follows:
Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
OS: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Memory ROM: 256 MB
RAM: 192 MB DDR SDRAM
Internal storage: 4 GB
Dimensions 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.5 mm (T)
Weight 110 g (with battery)
Display 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
Network SDPA/WCDMA:
* Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
* Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
* Europe/Asia: 900/1800/1900 MHz
GPS GPS and A-GPS ready
Connectivity Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR & 802.11 b/g
Camera Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera
Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery
Capacity: 900 mAh
Quite honestly I couldn’t ask for better specifications in a phone. This one sounds like a beast and h
as near damn everything and at 11.5mm, it’s pretty damn slim. However the main winner is the User Interface here. See the video linked below and you will see what I mean. HTC has added a superior overlay of it’s own to bring up the user interface standards to the already high productivity standards offered by Microsoft. While some may argue that this shows MS was incapable of doing this on their own, the reality is that MS has always let the 3rd party developers work their magic on their software; MS just provides the foundation.
UI Demo:
More Diamond Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/htc
Photo Gallery: http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=46280
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Microsoft Live Mesh – Complete Synchronisation
Take a look at the short promotional video by Microsoft on its upcoming Live Mesh service. As of now the service only entails folder synchronization, but in the future MS aims to have complete synchronisation that includes files, applications, settings over a variety of devices. Contacts, Messages, Applications everything will be the same everywhere, anywhere. If there is one company with the ability and the resources to pull it off, it is Microsoft. The company which is #1 in profitability in the Technology industry has the such a strong foothold with its involvement in Computers, Mobiles, MP3 Players, Consoles and lot’s more is much closer to achieving centralization among all it’s products.
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Windows ‘7’
Here we have it. Microsoft told News.com that the next version of its operating system (codename Windows 7) is expected to arrive in 3 years. We’re all aware of the delays Vista had to face during it’s production and the subsequent criticism the company received. And to top that , Vista didn’t do well numbers wise with Office 2007 being the saviour for Microsoft. Let’s hope Microsoft does better with the timings this time. Although despite many rumours, Microsoft hasn’t made any announcements about SP1 which many are looking forward to, much before the next version of Windows
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