…offered in Windows 7, Microsoft showed a new application called “Touchable Paint” that lets a user paint with their fingers, as well as software to organize photos or navigate maps by touch. “It is not about complete replacement of the mouse,” Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft’s corporate vice president in charge of…
Microsoft have outlined a scheme to pay consumers for using their search engine to buy products. Speaking at the Advance 08 advertising conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced the company would launch an incentive program for users of its Live Search feature. The new “cashback” service would deliver rebates for…
This week on the show, we talk to one of the heads of Microsoft Research in America to find out what new technologies are heading your way in the next few years. Plus have you always wanted to be invincible? We don a metal suit and let bad guys take…
This week on the show, we talk to one of the heads of Microsoft Research in America to find out what new technologies are heading your way in the next few years. Plus put on a brand new metal suit and let bad guys take their best shot. All that…
…attempt to renegotiate the sale to Microsoft. Meanwhile back in the Microsoft camp, a new statement has been released stating that the Microsoft “is not proposing to make a new bid to acquire all of Yahoo at this time, but reserves the right to reconsider that alternative.” “Microsoft is considering…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced yesterday that Microsoft had withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced yesterday that Microsoft had withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo. In a letter to the company made public yesterday Ballmer said the despite the acquisition making good economic sense for…
Yesterday, Rockstar invited a few tech journalists over to be among the first to play GTA IV. Want to know what it’s like? Yesterday, Rockstar invited a few of tech journalists over to Microsoft to be among the first in Australia to take a look at the new much awaited…
Have you ever wondered how to protect yourself on the Internet? We talked to Microsoft this week to find out what they’re doing about educating people. Plus, the world is being attacked by mythical monsters and overrun by evil. What do you do? Grab your swords and take on the…
Have you ever wondered how to protect yourself on the Internet but no one taught you how? We talked to Microsoft this week to find out what they’re doing about educating people. Plus, the world is being attacked by mythical monsters and overrun by evil. What do you do? Grab…
Thinking about upgrading to Vista – why bother when ‘Windows 7’ is tipped for release in 2009… Speaking at a seminar on corporate Philanthropy in Miami last Friday, Bill Gates Co founder of Microsoft Corp. revealed that Window users could expect the next version of the operating system, code named…
…largest acquisition to date. Google faced a long battle to purchase the company after being heavily cricised by privacy groups which had argued that the deal would deliver Google with unprecedented access to information about consumers’ online behaviour. Heavyweights Microsoft and AT&T also opposed the transaction, which was finally approved…
…have you mastering the required pen flicks with ease. Hello, short cuts! The Vista Pad Portable Graphic Tablet is designed specifically to work with Microsoft’s Vista and Office 2007 – the Tablet has macro links to launch all the major Office programs directly from the tablet. Wanna browse the net,…