For those that are on Mac’s and are in the market for Office, if you buy Office 2008 now through November, you’re eligible for a free upgrade to Office 2011 when it becomes available. Microsoft did the same offer for Windows users last year.
Purchase a qualifying Office 2008 for Mac product between Aug. 1, 2010, and Nov. 30, 2010, and you will be eligible to download Office for Mac 2011 at no additional cost* when it becomes available.
With Windows 7 gaining market share, it also stands within reason that Internet Explorer 8 gains as well. And it did, at the expense of Firefox and Chrome. It may not be a huge gain in market share, but at least it is a gain and not a loss!
According to new statistics from Net Applications, Internet Explorer increased its share of the browser market in July by 0.42%, for a total share of 60.74%. Firefox, on the other hand, took the biggest hit: a loss of 0.9%. Google’s Chrome browser lost 0.08%, while Safari gained 0.24%
From overtaking Mac OSX in it’s first couple weeks, to finally taking over Vista in under a year, Windows 7 continues to gain remarkable market share. Windows XP is dropping significantly after the release of Windows 7, as well.
Microsoft’s success with Windows 7 began before the product was even widely available. Released in October 2009, the operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses, and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple’s Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks. In early February, it was revealed that Windows 7 had reached 10% market share in just three months.
Microsoft is releasing an important “out of band” release of a patch that affects most current users of their operating systems. Make sure you run Windows Updates on Monday if you don’t have automatic updates turned on.
Because of the seriousness of the flaw, Microsoft has decided to publish the patch before the company’s scheduled release of security patches Aug. 10. The so-called “out of band” release corrects a flaw that results in Windows incorrectly parsing shortcuts in a way that allows malicious code to be executed when the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed, the company said.
MintyWhite goes through their top five anti-virus/anti-malware applications to say who’s best. Personally, I have to agree with them with most of it. I think that Malwarebytes should be used in addition to MSE, they are not competing products, and work together very well. The others are spot on.
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This isn’t related to Microsoft, other than the fact he probably can’t get it installed on his Windows 7 machine, but it is amazingly awesome! This guy put an ant colony inside of his scanner, scanned it once a week for 5 years, and made this video. Very cool.
Tablets have come and gone throughout the years, mainly used by Doctors offices and the like. A pen (stylus) was needed to get anything accomplished, and it wasn’t very efficient. Not until the Apple iPad did they actually made a dent in the consumer market. It definitely got the attention of Microsoft and Steve Ballmer. A few good quotes came from the announcement that Microsoft is going to put a lot into the tablet market. Some somewhat funny, others sounded pretty awesome.
In the question-and-answer session, talk again turned to tablets and Ballmer tried to be a little more clear on the plan, which he said will center around Windows 7 as opposed to Windows Phone and Intel rather than ARM processors, at least for the near term.
“We’re coming,” he said. “We’re coming full guns. The operating system is called Windows.”
BusinessWeek tells us 10 reasons why we should love Microsoft, aside from the awesome software. Personally, I’ve never had a problem with Microsoft (never liked the CEO’s, though. Not sure why…). But, I’m never ashamed to admit when they’ve really done something wrong (Windows Mobile), or completely blew the pooch. Microsoft has some great operating systems: great performance, stability and security. I would rather use them over any other for most things (web server, I prefer Linux due to learning on it and knowing it very well from a web server standpoint). One thing is for sure, you have to admit they’ve done something right… They are #1 after all!
Well instead of piling on, we’re going the other way. Of all the major tech companies out there, Microsoft is one of the most successfully diversified, exciting companies going.
Microsoft has said that it is going to release the public beta of Internet Explorer 9 in September, according to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner. For those that have been trying out the test previews, this is going to be old news. But for those that haven’t played with IE9, it is a good step forward in web standards, HTML5, and speed.
The IE 9 builds Microsoft has released so far have been developer-targeted. They include the plumbing, specifically the new Microsoft JavaScript engine (which is codenamed
Microsoft was going to stop the offline installer for the newest version of Windows Live Essentials, but for those with slow internet connections or none at all, it just wasn’t fun. Thankfully, Microsoft has given in and released a list of offline installer links to help you out.
With the previous Windows Live Essential
