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Parallels has finally released their tool for Windows 7
May 19th
Parallels has finally released their tool for Windows 7 Desktop Upgrade designed to help users move from Windows XP to Windows 7. Available through Internet, Desktop Upgrade to Windows 7 allows users to update to Microsoft’s latest operating system while maintaining your applications, files and settings intact, and can be used both to update the same as moving from one computer to another.
From Parallels ensure that Desktop Upgrade to Windows 7 is “a safe and reliable for users of Windows XP or Windows Vista who want to move to Windows 7 and fear the process.”
The tool is designed to automate the upgrade process so that users only have to answer a few questions and the program do all the work.
After the upgrade users will find their old applications, but due to some compatibility problems some of these programs run inside a virtual machine. This, however, be transparent to the user who simply see how your application works as forever.
With the tool includes interactive tutorials that show users how to work with Windows 7.
Microsoft released free site with series and TV shows
Mar 12th
In England, Microsoft launched an interesting experiment to compete squarely with the BBC. This is a significant change in the MSN Video Player, changing the format and including more than 1,000 hours of television programming.
Unlike the BBC iPlayer, the service promises to display content the same day they are issued and without paying a penny. The islanders who want to see a series of TV advertising will be only a first noninvasive 30 seconds.
According to the director of Microsoft in the UK, Ashleu Highfield, the system takes more than six months to test everything went well. Like any project of the Redmond company, use Silverlight to play the content, so technology that seeks to promote the company.
The trouble is that, as in many such services, is that content is filtered geographically and can only be seen in the UK. What one can see from anywhere are the movie trailers, some of them in HD.
Hack: How Google Android 2.1 can be installed on Windows Mobile Phones
Mar 3rd
The mobile phone operating system Windows Mobile is in comparison to competitors such as Android, iPhone OS and webOS as complicated and outdated with the new Windows 7 Phone Series later this year. Although Microsoft will bring an entirely new operating system on their Smartphone’s which scored after their presentation at the Mobile World Congress last week of kud
But who wants to wait as the owner of a Windows Mobile phones and no longer wants to give his old cell phone new skills, interests, perhaps the instructions, such as Android can bring on some Windows Mobile 2.1 Smartphone. The XDA-Developers forum will detail how to do it, but the whole thing is just something for people who know technology.
The four smart phones HTC Tilt (also known as HTC Kaiser), Niki, Vogue and Polaris are eligible for the hack. Still has the whole beta status are the two biggest bugs massive problems with Bluetooth and functioning after installing the new ROM.
Otherwise, the Windows Mobile Smartphone with Android will work pretty well. The chopped Smartphone are thus the first HTC phones with the new 2.1 version of Android
Microsoft is pushing companies to rebel against Google
Feb 27th
A case that has the air of revenge for the Redmond Company that has repeatedly been accused in recent years of abuse of dominance.
Google moreover suggested that Microsoft had prepared the plot that was because it became over time a competitor in many segments (online search and Web services, advertising, browser…). In a contribution posted on the blog “Microsoft on the Issues” (“Microsoft responds to questions”), David Heiner, Deputy General Counsel of the software company, returns to the complaint. The man scratches Google recalling that the latter is the subject of special attention in many countries vis its position in web search, online advertising and to a lesser extent, digitization of literary works. “Many services including search and online advertising are increasingly controlled by a single company, Google”, David Heiner concerned that pushes companies to move to mobilize and make a complaint against Google.
He said complaints against the search engine would have stopped growing in recent months with the rise of the latter.
Need traffic to increase the quality
It is also on the register of innovation that Microsoft wants to train the legislature. “Bing needs a volume of queries that are very important to increase the relevance of research findings concerning the words that are [...] is why Microsoft and Yahoo have pooled their search volume” explains David Heiner. Before concluding: “That’s why we’re concerned about Google’s business practices that tend to lock publishers and advertisers, making it more difficult for Microsoft to gain search volume. If a company cannot be punished for being successful with users, Microsoft’s position reflects the concerns of the latter: losing significant market share in a number of areas. While trying to return the situation to his advantage by taking the defence business.