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Windows Phone 7 Ready: RTM Roll Out Begins

By Ali Waqas | Published: September 2, 2010

Windows-phone-7

It seems as if the wait for Windows Phone 7 is about to end as Microsoft today has released the RTM –Release To Manufacturing version to different manufacturers. These “manufacturers” include carries, software development concerns and Microsoft enterprise networks. According to Windows Phone 7 development team, this mobile platform is the most comprehensive, glitch-free and stable OS designed to date.

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Joulemeter Measures Power Consumption Of Your System

By Usman | Published: August 3, 2010

Joulemeter is a free utility from Microsoft Research which is designed to determine the power consumption of your system. It tracks HDD, monitor, motherboard, CPU power consumption by calibrating each unit strength. The process includes a complete check of computer resources which primarily includes CPU utilization and display brightness.

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Samsung Taylor Windows Phone 7 Specs And Price

By Ali Waqas | Published: July 20, 2010

Samsung Taylor

Finally Microsoft has started to give out Windows Mobile 7 testing units and Samsung Taylor is one of them. The reason for this open-heartedness by Microsoft is because they want verdict on the phone’s hardware and software from established mobile phone geeks and enthusiasts.

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Troubleshoot Office Add-ins With AddInSpy

By Usman | Published: June 5, 2010

Throughout the SRLC (Software Release Life Cycle) process of MS Office, Microsoft development team & other third parties begin creating small utilities for providing extra features to complement the official product. These add-ins helps get work done in easier way along with providing either missed out or advance functionality, if you are a power user of MS Office you might have came across hundreds of add-ins for different Office applications. Despite the fact that they provide extra utility, they can also contains code-anomalies and compatibility problems, thus eventually causing app crash, halt or lagging.

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Bing Replacing Google Search On iPhone OS 4

By Ali Waqas | Published: May 29, 2010

After loads of rumors that somehow portrayed Microsoft and Apple as partners, it is now clear that they weren’t rumors after all.

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PowerPoint 2010 Viewer

By Usman | Published: May 7, 2010

Unarguably PowerPoint stands out when it comes to creating intriguing and appealing presentations, thus, it is widely used everywhere. Considering the fact that it is abound but there are still many users out there who can’t shell out to purchase the product. To cope up with this, Microsoft recently released the latest version of PowerPoint Viewer which allow any user view presentations without requiring PowerPoint installation.

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Docs.com: Create & Share MS Office Documents via Facebook

By Usman | Published: April 22, 2010

Microsoft and Facebook recently gushed forth Docs.com which will allow Facebook users to share and create Office documents on the fly. Docs.com, the web app is more like a stripped down version of upcoming Microsoft Office 2010, letting you to create and share Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations with your friends and peers. It is a brainchild of Microsoft FUSE labs, which has been focusing on creating online web app providing best social experiences.

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Microsoft Fix It Center Fixes Common Windows Problems

By Nakodari | Published: April 17, 2010

There are plenty of 3rd party tools to fix Windows problems, offering promising results. Microsoft Fix It Center is the first official tool from Microsoft to fix errors and problems in Windows. We would highly recommend fixing your problems with this official tool before using any 3rd party utilities. After all who can know Windows better than Microsoft themselves.

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Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs

By Nakodari | Published: November 29, 2009

Microsoft Office 2010 includes Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and lots of other apps such as OneNote 2010, Visio 2010, Publisher 2010, etc. The contents of these apps are not indexable. This is where Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs come in.

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Save Word Document To SkyDrive – Office 2010

By Nakodari | Published: November 14, 2009

Back in September we first uncovered a new feature in Office 2010 – ability to upload documents straight to Windows Live SkyDrive service. This features is available in MS Word 2010, Excel 2010, and PowerPoint 2010.

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Uninstall .NET Framework From Windows 7

By Nakodari | Published: October 18, 2009

Before you proceed, you should know that we are reviewing this tool for advanced users only. We do not recommend that you should uninstall .NET Framework from your system. Most apps that run on Windows require .NET framework, without which they are rendered useless.

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Microsoft SharedView – Share Desktop Screen

By Aun | Published: October 14, 2009

Microsoft SharedView is a great screen sharing  tool which is used to manage small meetings, as it lets you share your desktop, applications, or documents with 15 people at the same time. One of the perks of this utility over the other desktop sharing tools is that it works perfectly through routers and firewalls. All you need is a Window Live ID!

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Hide Running Applications With WinRAP

By Aun | Published: October 9, 2009

You might often run into circumstances when you need to hide a particular application or program. One case could be that you need to share your computer’s desktop with someone and you don’t want him/her to see your running programs. In another case you might want to hide running apps from your boss or co-workers. WinRAP (Windows Running Applications Protector) is a free, portable utility which hides your applications from the desktop and runs them in the background. It also allows you to hide the desktop icons.

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How To Proofread Your Articles/Post With Microsoft Research ESL Assistant

By Nakodari | Published: October 6, 2009

If English is your secondary language, then you will probably make more mistakes than your English speaking counterparts. Microsoft Research ESL Assistant is a free service from Microsoft that helps people solve grammatical errors in their sentences.

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Download Microsoft Security Essentials Final

By Nakodari | Published: September 29, 2009

Back in June we reviewed MS Security Essentials when it was in beta. Today, Microsoft plans to remove the beta tag and make it available to the public. Yes, you will finally be able to download the free antivirus from Microsoft later today.

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