Windows Search 4 preview
March 28, 2008
If you are a Windows Vista User, then you’d know how painfully it is slow to search files on your desktop. Seriously, I’ve been using Google Desktop search but that too been giving me headache most of the time due to some unresolved local DNS stuffs and sometimes, crooked Firewall setups. Really it’s so sluggish search system in Vista, I’ve to admit.
Windows Search 4 is the latest updates to Vista according to vista blog. It’s 33% faster, improved indexing, it even indexes web mails, bugs fixed blah blah blah. Searching has never been so easier before Window Search 4. It’s them saying, not me. I’ve gotta try it yet. Last time, I updated my system with SP1 on my vista and my system went berserk. My laptop didn’t connected to internet, it didn’t even detected my router. I dunno what went wrong but It’s for sure that everything happened after the updates. Evil updates. I tried everything to my knowledge to overcome but wasted many hours without satisfactory updates. Finally had to resort back with the system restore. At least I like system restore, it’s something which gets deleted files back to life, real resurrection .
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Microsoft wants Yahoo at any cost
February 21, 2008
After the denial of offer placed by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo for some $41 dollar along with Microsoft’s own share and stocks, things are getting pretty hard for both sides. Microsoft’s appeal has been declined which made Microsoft think different way. We all know Microsoft,Money and Monopoly, they’re somewhat synonym to each other. Microsoft has money power and it’s using this power.
Yahoo think they’ve been undervalued, whereas, Microsoft think the offer was reasonable. If you ask me, I think Microsoft’s offer was appropriate for Yahoo. There is nothing wrong with the acquisition offer,after all, it’s $41 billion. The main objective of Microsoft is to get some stand in the search engine business. That’s not possible unless there are lots of fishes in the same pond. Microsoft can’t think of gulping Google, because, Google is as huge as whale and to leap forward, Microsoft has to start with other contending fishes. By the way, this is just my mere analogy and that’s how I’m seeing the present scenario between these companies.
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Fans protest Microsoft’s plan to dump XP
February 8, 2008
Goodbye, Windows XP.
Microsoft, which released its latest operating system, Vista, last year, plans to stop selling Windows XP in stores and through its PC partners on June 30.
It’s a typical move in the high-tech industry, as older models make way for new ones. But in this case, the shift has been met with some grumbling, given the criticism Windows Vista has received and reports that users were “upgrading” their Vista computers to XP.
InfoWorld, a site for information technology specialists, started a petition last month urging Microsoft to continue selling XP. So far, it has collected 80,000 signatures and impassioned pleas.
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