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Little Android Vs Windows 7

DK — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:32:00 +0000

To know basics about Google’s Android click here to view our early post.

We thought Google’s Android is for mobile but, people at VentureBeat experimented Android in Asus EEEPC 1000H laptop.And got success within 4 hours

Nearly all the hardwares in Asus EEEPC 1000H laptop were running perfectly with Android

As we already mentioned in our pervious post that Microsoft is building windows 7 to work more perfectly in netbook (to view the post click here).

Now after this big step the little Android can give some tough competition for windows 7 in Microsoft’s netbook market.

Most of the technologists were expecting that we can see a netbook can run with Android OS within 2010.

I think Microsoft want to face lot of challenges in both netbook and mobile market due to Android.

Really it is great work by Google because a single product (Android) of Google is giving trouble for two products (windows 7 and windows mobile) of Microsoft.

Expecting to see more fight with Microsoft in feature !!!

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Windows 7 Beta is out !!!!!

DK — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:24:00 +0000

Windows 7 pre-release is out today.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Windows 7, which will be available for download from Friday (jan 9).

He said “We are on track to deliver the best version of Windows ever,”
Also he added that windows 7 will make PC faster and easier to use.

What is more in windows 7?

Windows 7 will have touch-screen capability, side-by-side windows for comparison shopping , a “Peek” feature that makes open windows transparent, allowing users to see the icons on their desktop, speech and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.

In Windows 7 , Windows Mail, Windows Calendar, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, and Windows Contacts are part of Windows Live Essentials (previously Windows Live Installer).

Requirements to try windows 7

The beta, which Microsoft called “feature complete,” requires a PC with a 1GHz processor, 1GB of memory, 16GB of available hard disk space and support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory, according to Microsoft, which also warned that the recommendations could change for the final version. The beta only supports an upgrade from Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)

It will be available for public download from jan 9 to check out click here.

Important note here:

It has to be noted that the Windows 7 Beta will be made available for a limited time to 2.5 million downloaders only.

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Be secured with your browser

DK — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:56:00 +0000

A few days back i think you may came across a news in which Microsoft itself advised the Internet Explorer users not to use it because it has some serious security flaw and later released a software patch to fix the issue.
You may think that how serious attacks are possible through your browser. But most of the cyber criminals where using the flaw in the browsers as their advantage to attack your system.

When you reach the website which is created with the intention to attack your system, the malware (virus like program) automatically gets installed in your system and starts to work. When such malware starts working it will collect lots of information mainly your username and password which you are using to login some secured pages like your online bank account, e-mail etc., After collecting it will send those things to the criminals so its an easy task for them to get access your online bank account. Also some malware may cause some serious problem to your system. Even it will record your browsing habits i.e, your frequent searching words, list of your favourite websites etc.,

This happens even when you open the spam e-mails, also when you download some thing from not authorized sites. A study says that most of the victims of online attacks are Internet Explorer users.

The users can overcome this kind of attacks by keep updating the browser with the latest patches released by the corresponding company. A research says that only 59.1% percent of Internet users worldwide use the latest major version of their preferred web browser. Firefox users are the most attentive: 92.2% of them surfed with latest downloaded patches Only 52.5% of Microsoft Internet Explorer users are keep upgrading their browsers regularly. The study revealed that 637 million Internet users worldwide who use web browsers are either not running the latest version of their preferred browser or have not installed the latest patches.

So the internet users should understand that how seriously we should consider the security of the browser. Avoid using the old version of your browser when you are in internet.

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Microsoft plans to kill LINUX

DK — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:38:00 +0000

Already Microsoft got big worry about Linux competition in the server market. Now it continues in PCs and laptop markets too.

Yes Microsoft designs the windows7 to kill Linux market

The main threat to windows comes from “netbooks” inexpensive laptops that typically use Intel’s low-powered Atom processor.

They are mainly used for browsing and little word-processing.
The funny thing with this netbook is they can’t handle Vista so they can run only with XP. But linux really gives nice support to netbooks (thats the beauty of linux).

As a result Acer and Asustek who holds 90% of netbook market where using linux on 30% of their product. Another thing is if a netbook uses linux they will not use Microsoft office so here is double hit for Microsoft.

If a user uses linux in his netbook and after getting familiar automatically he will start using linux in desktop. Here the Microsoft get real threat

So now Microsoft building windows 7 to work well in netbooks. In a recent Professional Developers Conference Windows Senior Vice President showed Windows 7 on his Lenovo laptop and said that it used less than half of the netbook’s RAM (1GB)

By this Microsoft plans to capture the linux’s netbook market.

What do you think whether windows 7 will drop the linux’s netbook market?

Post your answers as comments.