In an announcement that made a loud “bing!” to the internet search world yesterday, giants Microsoft and Yahoo! have decided to play nice together with combining their search technologies. It’s not surprising, as Microsoft courted Yahoo! last year for a while only to be snubbed in a final purchasing attempt. What can best be called … Read more
According to The Tech Herald Microsoft is not done with Bungie and their flagship XBox video game franchise “Halo,” which includes at least 3 single-player titles and a recent foray into real-time strategy games. Recently it was announced at ComicCon in San Diego that they intend to release not only a Halo anime mini-series, but … Read more
Rumors have been circulating that computer maker HP would be offering customers the ability to downgrade to Windows XP later this year when Windows 7 ships out. Now that rumor has been confirmed with an announcement by software giant Microsoft, confirming that users will not only have rights to downgrade to Windows Vista, but also … Read more
Apparently sick and tired of Apple’s pretentious “I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC,” ads, Microsoft has recently struck back with a series of “Joe the Plumber”-esque ads where different everyday people proclaim what they use their computers for and say proudly “I’m a PC.” The most recent ad has taken a new stab at … Read more
Today Microsoft announced that the release candidate (RC) for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is now released to the general public for beta testing. How can that be a bad thing? It works for OSS projects like Firefox and various Linux distros. Just anyone can go and download these might-as-well-be-final versions of their product and … Read more
In the European Union, Opera is in the process of bringing a suit against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with its operating system. Microsoft is slated to include Internet Explorer 8 in its latest operating system, Windows 7. Recently, Mozilla foundation threw its hat in the ring with Opera to go up against Microsoft, and … Read more
It’s no big surprise that Google makes a superior web product for a lot of our day-to-day needs. Recently, Google announced their new web browser called Google Chrome. It’s code is based on Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Web Kit used in Safari (on Mac, PC, and iPhone). There are several suspicious lines in the code, … Read more