Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And Firefox If everyone on Windows 8 switched from Chrome and Firefox to Internet Explorer 10, we could be saving enough energy to power 10,000 US households, according to a new study. The study however, was commissioned by … Read more
Microsoft Brings Back the Start Button in Windows 8.1 Back when Windows 8 was revealed to the world, it removed perhaps the most familiar part of the Windows functionality. The start button. The company is getting a lot of negative feedback since then about removing the start button. But now they are bringing it back … Read more
PC sales have reached a record all time low according to the IDC thanks to the obvious popularity of tablets and smartphones. “Lower PC sales are certainly not a positive for Microsoft,” states Loren Loverde, an analyst at IDC who is in charge of the PC tracking data group. Microsoft is planning to relaunch an … Read more
Microsoft is pushing Google’s buttons by releasing a new YouTube app for Windows Phone. The App, takes out YouTube ads when it plays videos and easily allows users to download the videos, which is a clear violation of Google’s TOS. These behaviors violate the rules YouTube imposes on developers. Microsoft has reverse engineered some portion … Read more
The Windows Phone officially has over 145,000 apps. Windows Store now has 145,000 apps, but is appearing to reach a plateau. This has been a doubling in size over the last year and a half. Microsoft has won over a lot of big fish this last year. YouTube, Hulu, and Foursquare to name a few. … Read more
After more than a decade, Hotmail has closed it’s doors and transitioned its customers to Outlook.com. Microsoft announced that it had finally completed the upgrade of hundreds of millions of users from Hotmail to a new and improved Outlook. The process involved transferring 150 million gigabytes of data from old hotmail accounts into the new … Read more
Microsoft is set to unveil a new generation Xbox 360 on May 21 at it’s main campus in Washington. Xbox 360 has been the top selling game console in the United States for the last 20 months, selling more than 70 million consoles since its release date in 2005, and a new generation version could … Read more
Microsoft is rumored to be designing a new version of Windows 8 that will have an option to select the traditional Windows display instead of the new smart- screen styled interface that the current edition boasts. Windows 8.1 or Windows Blue is set to be available soon and rumors are that Microsoft is giving consumers … Read more
Microsoft is reportedly looking in to developing a smartwatch in an attempt to keep up with competitors and consumer trends. The information was leaked by one of the supplier executives from the company who revealed that Microsoft was collected parts to build a smartwatch. The move would be beneficial for Microsoft who has been late … Read more
Sales in the PC market have hit an all time low, falling by 11 percent in the first quarter of 2013. The PC market has been on a constant decline in the last few years and now shipments have shrunk for the fourth consecutive quarter dropping by at least 11 percent. This fall is the … Read more
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