Inevitable, the advent of a new operating system has to be branded with certain coordinates that position the platform in relation to the ubiquitous Windows OS from Microsoft. Google Chrome OS has in this manner joined the club of non-Windows operating systems, and don’t think for a minute that this does not apply to Microsoft’s itself. The Redmond company is also cooking non-Windows platforms (Singularity and Midori), and time will come when the software giant will have to go against itself on the OS market. However, which such a scenario is most probably reserved for the next decade, the Google Chrome OS has become tangible. A... [read more >>] The first Beta Build is the next iteration of the Office System that is now opened to the general public, after being offered to MSND and TechNet subscribers, as well as Microsoft Connect testers. Office 2010 Beta 14.0.4536.1000 public downloads went live on day two of the company’s Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, and is currently up for grabs for all users that want to test drive the successor of Office 2007.At the time of this article, both the 32-bit (x86) and the 64-bit (x64) flavors of Office 2010 Beta 14.0.4536.1000 are available for download. What Microsoft is offering essentially is the Professiona... [read more >>] Later today, November 18th, 2009, Microsoft will deliver the first taste of the next iteration of its proprietary browser. The Redmond company is looking to share plans about the successor of IE8, namely Internet Explorer 9 on the second day of the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles. It was Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Chief Software Architect that revealed the start of the discussion focused on IE9. Ozzie nominated Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, as the Microsoft executive that would make public the first details on Internet Explorer 9. “In terms of runtimes, our strategic runtime for delive... [read more >>] The first fully-fledged Beta Build of Office 2010 is now available for download to subscribers of Microsoft’s developer and IT professional portals. The Redmond company managed to live up to its promise to offer Office 2010 Beta by the end of November 2009, with public availability of the bits expected any day now, possibly as soon as tomorrow, November 18th. At the time of this article the latest development milestone of the next iteration of the Office System was only up for grabs via MSDN and TechNet, with the website set up to offer public downloads continuing to note that the bits would be served “soon.”Microsoft has... [read more >>] Following the five year gap between Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft indicated that it would pick up the pace for the delivery of Windows Next releases, and Windows 7 was an illustrative example in this regard. The latest iteration of Windows was delivered within three years after the general availability of Vista, and it looks like Windows 8 will have a similar GA timeframe in regards to Windows 7, considering that planning and preparation for the next iteration of the Windows client is already in progress. In a Microsoft job post for Software Development Engineer (via ActiveWin), a representative of the Redmond company mentions tha... [read more >>] Microsoft managed to pour more fuel on the fire driving the perspective that the Redmond company is no longer an innovator but just a follower, by noting that the Windows 7 graphical user interface (GUI) was borrowed from Mac OS X. The software giant was accused on various occasions that it was down-right copying rival products with their own, and then leveraging its mammoth presence on the software market in order to squash smaller-size competitors, generally out of its weight category. And nowhere have the accusations of copying found more virulence than when it came down to Apple products. The Cupertino-based hardware company m... [read more >>] Emsi Software just released a mind blowing offer of 100% discount for a one-year license for one PC on its flagship product, a-squared Anti-Malware (regularly priced at $39.95). The promotion was twittered at 11:11 CET and will last until tomorrow, at the same time. That gives you a 24-hour window to get the product for free.For all other orders on the Emsi Software web page, the same 24-hour $40 price drop is applied. Thus, the most expensive package, which includes a one-year license for five computers, originally priced at $120, dropped at 80 bucks for this short period of time.You can see the price bash on its 24-hour discount order pag... [read more >>] At the start of this week, early adopters of the next iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser have been able to download pre-release variants of an update to the first Beta build of codename Namoroka since the start of this week. Labeled 3.6b2-candidates, the refresh to Firefox 3.6 Beta went live on Monday October 9th, and have been graduated to a full Beta release soon after. At the time of this article, testers are able to download what Mozilla refers to as the Firefox 3.6 Beta refresh. “Beta 2 refresh shipping: DLL blacklisting patch; syntax changes for CSS gradients; cycle-collector patch to stop cycle collection instead ... [read more >>] Taking an innovative approach to the now traditional methods of delivering security for Windows computers, Panda Security has made available for download the final version of its free Cloud-based antivirus offering. Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free security offering designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows 7, but also with its predecessors, including Windows Vista and Windows XP. When it comes down to Windows 7 and Vista, support is available for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) flavors of the two platforms, while only x86 XP is supported. Panda Security launched the first Beta development milestone of Panda Cloud Antivirus in April 2... [read more >>] An update is available from Microsoft for the gold version of Windows 7, designed to ensure that future service packs for the operating system, namely Service Pack 1, will be delivered and installed successfully. The latest iteration of the Windows client, just as its precursor, is prone to issues which can prevent the installation of service packs, updates and even software. The Redmond company is already offering a refresh set up to resolve any problems that might block the deployment of SP1. The update in question offers the System Update Readiness Tool, bits which are also available for Windows Vista, for Windows Server 2008, and for Wi... [read more >>] | 
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