TechFlash reports that Microsoft User Experience Designer, Mike LaManna has designed a computer mouse for those who have problems controlling a mouse. The mouse will help those with cognitive and physical disabilities or elderly computer...
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Recently Gartner Analysis predicted that the sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline by 11.9%. Given that netbooks are leading the PC market growth,...
Back in February, Neowin cited Mary-Jo Foley predicting the Windows Mobile 6.5 roadmap. The Windows Mobile Team has announced the Windows Mobile 6.5 official launch date in a blog post as May 11, 2009. ...
Cnet news is reporting that Google plans to build payment mechanisms in YouTube and has redesigned a part of the YouTube website to add a section for professional content. In a conference call, Google Chief...
The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) which includes IBM, Adobe, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Corel and RealNetworks recently joined as a third party in the European Commission's anti-trust case against Microsoft over the Internet Explorer...
UPDATE: Microsoft backtracks, says Office 2010 beta will be public Neowin already reported that Office 2010 Beta 1 due in early July will not be available for public testing. Now Microsoft has confirmed...
TechARP had been providing giving updates on the Windows 7 Downgrade Rights Program. Now Microsoft has confirmed the same in a blog post, regarding the Windows 7 Downgrade rights program. Users can downgrade to Windows...
Microsoft plans to distribute Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous versions of IE (IE 6 or IE 7) via Automatic Updates starting from the 3rd week of April. The update will be rolled out...
Bumptop for Windows 7 Touchscreen PCs is a 3D desktop organizer that helps you to pile your files along with advanced search and sort capabilities . You can flip through websites, toss your photos up...
Neowin earlier sighted that Windows 7 users can now change their logon screen background. But in order to customize the logon screen, users had to hack the registry and create a new directory for background...
There has been lot going on with Windows 7 and that it can run on 'netbooks' - lightweight, low-cost laptops that typically use Intel's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM...
PCWorld reports that in a recent poll conducted, Windows 7 Beta testers are 4 times happier with Windows 7 than the early users of Windows Vista, the reason due to which more than half of...
Microsoft recently announced that it will offer a variety of free and exclusive designer themes, color palettes and wallpapers to help users personalize their Windows phones. The latest Windows Mobile 6.5 build comes bundled with...
Every one of us is waiting for the upcoming Windows 7 RC release. In the meantime, Windows 7 Team has blogged on the upgrade experience from pre-RC builds to RC build, even when the RC...
According to a blog entry in Dell's website, Dell has tested hundreds of Dell systems with Windows 7 Beta and has found the results to be promising. Dell notes that the following results were observed...
Just a quick reminder to Neowin users, both Windows XP and Office 2003 will leave mainstream support and enter extended support on April 14, 2009. This applies to the following Windows XP editions: Windows...
PC Pro is reporting that, in a briefing at Microsoft's London headquarters, Microsoft's Windows OEM Manager, Laurence Painell has told there will be a couple of additional, quite major announcements regarding Windows 7 in the...
Microsoft has released the The Windows Demo Toolkit Foundation Suite which makes it easier to demo Windows 7 to your customers or clients. This is very helpful if you are presenting to a small group...
Microsoft has announced many new applications for Windows phones through Windows Marketplace. EA Mobile, AccuWeather.com, The Associated Press, CNBC, Developer One Mobile Software and a whole lot of companies will deliver Windows phone applications through...
HTC today announced its newest QWERTY smartphone, the HTC Snap loaded with Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. The device measures less than 12 mm and features a full 4-row QWERTY keyboard. ...
Two days back, we had a Microsoft Employee leak screenshots of build 7068. Today, we have screenshots of build 7070 leak! The leak is yet again from someone working at Microsoft and the story goes...
A Microsoft Employee, in his blog post explaining about the new Windows 7 Gadgets platform, ended up posting the initial Windows 7 build 7068 screenshot. The screenshot is just the Windows 7 Desktop but the...
WMPoweruser has posted some more alleged screenshots of Windows Mobile 7. The screenshots Neowin sighted earlier showed the Today Screen and the Maps utility. The new screenshots shown below, give us a picture of Windows...
The latest beta of Windows 7 blocks the usage of third party video decoders from Windows Media Player and MCE. Albain, a DirectShow (ffdshow) developer explains in his own words what he encountered when he...
Neowin earlier reported that the RTM Escrow build of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 had been released to a group of internal testers. Microsoft today released Windows Vista and Windows Server...
TechARP has come up with the preliminary dates planned for the program milestones of Office 14, the latest version of Microsoft's Office productivity suite. Accoring to this latest schedule: Office 14 SKU lineup will...
A Gartner analysis report recommends IT departments to depart from the usual SP1 milestone when deciding to deploy Windows 7 "Conventional wisdom has been that organizations need to wait for the first Service Pack...
Microsoft today announced a new partnership with NASA to bring images & data of the moon and Mars to Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope (WWT) for Internet viewing. Through a Space Act agreement, Microsoft and NASA will...
WMPoweruser has come up with some screenshots which it believes to be of the upcoming Windows Mobile 7. Below are the alleged images of Windows Mobile 7 that appear in their site. ...
Backweb, an Israeli company which creates communications acceleration software based on Push technology for the Web, intranets and extranets has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the Microsoft Windows Update feature infringes on Backweb's...
The Windows Home Server Team has announced the availability of Power Pack 2 update for Windows Home Server. The English version of Power Pack 2 will be available on March 24 and will automatically install...
PC Authority, the Australian Computer Magazine team has compiled a list of top 10 IT locations which it has found to be more IT friendly than the rest of the areas in the world. Below...
The Microsoft adCenter Analytics team has announced that the adCenter Analytics beta program has been closed and the program will remain available to current users until December 31, 2009. "Our objectives at the outset...
Sources say that the RTM Escrow build of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 has been released to a group of internal testers. The build number of this pre RTM build is...
TippingPoint's 3rd annual Pwn2Own contest has already shown significant security breaches on Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, but Google's Chrome was the only browser that made it through the first day...
Earlier this year when Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate was released, the IE team submitted 3784 new test cases to the CSS 2.1 Working Group for inclusion into the CSS 2.1 test suite. And today,...
With rumors circulating that the next version of Internet Explorer might use Webkit, an open source web browser engine, Hachamovitch confirmed to Ars that the next version of IE will not use Webkit "Hachamovitch...
Early this year Microsoft revealed Windows Mobile 6.5 and some of its plans for Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile. Now at the MIX09 sessions, Microsoft has revealed more details on the various UI enhancements in...
Now that IE 8 is available for download via Microsoft Download website, users should expect IE 8 being delivered via Windows Update soon. TechARP is reporting that Microsoft will release IE8 via Windows Update a...
Microsoft made a list of announcements today at the MIX09 conference during the keynote addressed by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform and Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research. Of all the announcements...
