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EU commission has its way, MS to offer browser options

It appears that Microsoft would be offering competing space to browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari in form of a browser ballot, where users can pick and choose browsers other than IE. If the recent post in Ars is to be believed then EU has had its way with Redmond. EU commission had earlier objected [...]

Right time to buy a netbook

One of my acquaintances asked me recently, Is this the right time buy a netbook? I looked at him quizzingly and tried to figure out what’s there in his mind. The question reminded me that netbooks sales are still rising sharply and probably its the only segment in PC market which is registering the positive [...]

Free Antivirus solutions from Microsoft being launched soon

It was only few days ago when I learnt about free antivirus suite being launched by Microsoft. Frankly speaking I didn’t believe it I thought there must be something else to it. Microsoft already had a product Live OneCare which could not generate any interest amongst avid users.

PC sales records negative growth… General Elections to blame?

PC sales have recorded negative growth in Q1, 2009 in India. The percentage fall of 11.7% has been more in India  vis-a-vis rest of the world sales growth figures which stands at negative 6.6%. Market and economy watchers feel that the impact in India has been more as the country is feeling more jittery over [...]

Oracle buying Sun may signal end of the road for OpenOffice and MySQL

“Once upon a time there existed an OpenOffice suite which along with a host of other free products gave MS run for its money”. You may probably soon find this epitaph written all over the place where Sun Microsystems existed. It is sad that an organization which all along its existence fought the commercialization of [...]

Windows ruling Netbook market

Recent proclamation by Microsoft citing market research statistics from NPD that 96% of netbooks market is dominated by Windows OS is in fact, a revelation. It was believed that Netbooks where the size and processing has been optimized to carry out the basic tasks like surfing the web, sending mails and simple word processing tasks, [...]

After India, now Hungarian Government gears up to embrace Open Source.

After one of the India’s major opposition party, came out with an IT vision document during run up to parliamentary polls, laying strong emphasis on open source software, now the Hungarian government has also pitched in for open source software. Government has announced its plans to float an open tender for open source software for [...]

Cheapest Office suite from Microsoft

Are you a student having email id with .edu extension? If you are, then you are amongst the lucky few who are eligible for cheapest office suite from Microsoft for just $59.95. You are eligible for not one but four such licenses, one each from the groups specified by Microsoft. With a price which is [...]