While such a claim has been rather emphatic from Microsoft's point of view, but analysts predict that sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline by 11.9%. And Microsoft is quite aware of that. WSJ reports that Windows XP at a discounted rate is already on the cards for netbooks. Unnamed sources report that Microsoft is charging less than $ 15 for per copy of Windows XP in a netbook. And if XP and Vista (which was a failure for netbooks considering the hardware support it needs and the outcome is absolutely nothing) are here, can Windows 7 be far behind? According to Microsoft, the Starter edition in Windows 7 was created so that Windows 7 can be offered on even the least expensive netbooks.

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Microsoft indubitably dominates the PC world. still. I see a large number of small and mid size business working with MS business tools. For CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Microsoft offers a Dynamics CRM software which I mentioned in my Top 10 CRM software. Although Microsoft Dynamics CRM is relatively new to the CRM market, but it has made a significant progress in the CRM market. Microsoft Dynamics has been designed to fillip the sales, satisfaction and service with automated CRM. It allows full integration with Microsoft Office and the Outlook email tool. Let's take a pick on the spectrum of features offered by Microsoft Dynamics.
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The line of a text is a big headache sometimes. If you work with text based documents, you will probably know the utility of a linebreak or a word-wrap. They help you maintain an equality of the page width as the readers go through, very much getting rid of the horizontal scroll bar and makes it more readable. So, how do you word-wrap or use line break for an excel document or a word document?

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Microsoft’s Business Division president Stephen Elop at the Wharton Business Technology Conference showed how Windows can change in the next decade according as our life style. In this awesome video you have a glimpse of what the next decade may look like. We must realize that despite being a underwhelming, pricey and buggy operating system, Microsoft still holds almost the 70% of the total market of operating systems. When they spend billions of dollars for researches and new technologies, may be a bit more planning and definiteness towards the goal will see them emerging with the whole concept in reality. I will leave you with the video.

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As Firefox, Google Chrome etc are coming up with hot and new developments every month to uniquely establish themselves in the browsers' war, Microsoft isn't quiet either. Microsoft Research is developing a new browser called Microsoft’s Gazelle and they released a PDF paper last week. Microsoft claims Gazelle is more of an web operating system working as a browser and it will give you more security that any of its competitors in the market.

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Microsoft confesses again. Though there is nothing to be ashamed of MS. You have done it before more than times one can count. This time it is about a security leak in a MS Excel. Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. In english, it means, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user rights. Scared? I am sure you are not if you have been using Microsoft for years. Its just too common. Full article (296 words) »

Google and Windows, for once have decided to work their ways in to a collaborative approach to technology. Windows mobile is freshly equipped with Google Street View and soon after there is more to cherish! Google Mobile App, a convenient one-stop shop for all popular Google services, has hit Windows mobile platform. This app is already quite popular with the versions for Apple iPhone and Blackberry. Full article (194 words) »

After just a few days when Microsoft was stranded to sillyness in the mid of mobile world congress, they have done it again! And this time its pitifully worse. In what appears to be a clear sign of even the big giants losing their minds in this overwhelming economic recession, Microsoft is reportedly asking laid off employees to return portions of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid.

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Have we seen enough from the technology? Not at all. In this quest to proceed further, Bharti Airtel has signed exclusive agreements to make the world's first Windows based Online Desktop-powered by Microsoft and Nivio. With this one, AIrtel wants people to breathe in computers and broadband synonymously. This is really an important milestone not only because its first but also it rests the potential to usher in the era of broadband boon throughout India and not just a handful of people.

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Microsoft and Dell have joined hand in hand for a project called PRODUCT RED in order to help Africa fight AIDS. Such a noble venture needs your contribution as well. When you buy a Dell (PRODUCT) RED PC with Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED, Windows and Dell will jointly contribute $50 or $80, depending on the product, to The Global Fund.

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