Microsoft Windows 7 may be due to come out a far year and a half from now, but the brouhaha that manifests the curiosity and excitement among concerned sectors – or just about anyone – is all around, this early.

Here we go again! Microsoft announced that they will try to reach an agreement with Yahoo! Inc., but they admit that nothing could result from these discussions. Thos guys from Microsoft said that now they will try a different approach which involves “a transaction with Yahoo! but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo!”. Microsoft “only” wants to improve their “online services and advertising business”. For the moment, no deadline for the offer and the saga continues.
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Google, Microsoft and other renowned companies united their forces trying to obtain permission to use the “white space”, an unused portion of the airwaves spectrum. Federal Communication Commission (FCC), the agency who is in charge with regulation of al non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum, has already received a six page letter, containing the possible impact of using this part of the spectrum, such as cheaper and easier access to the Internet through small devices all over the US. It’s a pity, in Google specialists’ opinion, to let this …

French designer Jean Hong created a device that combines an alarm clock with a browsing PC. It is an interesting concept, as many of us surf the net first thing in the morning, with a cup of coffee beside. The alarm clock can be removed when browsing the web, and reattached at night, after setting the hour to wake up the next day.
It is called the Pix-L mini PC and was designed to wear the Microsoft sign on it. Maybe the IT Goliath will take a look at the small …

Microsoft and Intel are the biggest companies from the software and, respectively, from the hardware market, but that didn`t stop them to come together with a $20 million grant for two universities. With these funds, Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers from UC -Berkeley and The University of Illinois at Champaign, Urbana will have to research and develop a way to make “parallelism so easy to use that parallel programming becomes synonymous with programming”, according to the head of the UIUC lab, Mark Snir.
He was referring to the fact that in …

Not many were very satisfied with what Windows Vista offered. There was just about the time to release an update and Microsoft has officially made available the Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The SP1 Five Language Standalone is available for download on Microsoft’s website and we will let you get it, test it and criticize it.

It was about time that Microsoft confirms another operating system as the successor of Vista and they announced that Windows 7 will be released at the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010. The Redmond company made it official that the development of the Windows 7 would take about three years time, but until now nobody knew what’s the starting point of those three years. A few days ago they made it very clear for us - Windows 7 will be delivered after three years of Windows Vista. It’s …

Microsoft has unveiled a prototype device called LucidTouch. The transparent multi-touch allows users to control the LucidTouch from behind and they will still be able to see their fingers. Microsoft has developed this device thanks to a technology called pseudo-transparency and the idea was to give users the possibility to control a device without blocking the view to the screen. According to Microsoft, when controlling from behind you have a higher precision and you can operate with ten fingers if that’s physically possible. Buy Instant Degrees

Microsoft announced that the Singularity OS will be available in stores as of 2011. For now they made available the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) 1.1 for academic non-commercial use. This operating system has been developed with the purpose of providing new systems, languages and tools. The whole idea is to create a better software that will improve program behavior and to be safer. This will be possible because the system will be SIP-enabled (Software Isolated Processed) and as you might know, SIPs can’t modify their code and also can’ …

It seems like all the anti-Vista campaigns and “save XP” petitions came to a results and Microsoft has just released a new service pack, the third version Release Candidate 2.  The XP SP3 is now available through Windows Update for all users, but you have to download a registry key that will delete other SP3 versions and install the RC2. So it seems Microsoft isn’t that desperate to sell Vista and forget about XP users.
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IBM is preparing 45nm chips that might get into the PS3. The chips will soon get in production, as they said and will be 34% smaller than the 65nm ones, while using up to 40% less power than them. Those are great news for future PS3 buyers, as they will be more reliable and heat less, but not only for them. Also Sony will save some money with those new chips. Of course Microsoft couldn’t stay away and they are also preparing 45nm chips for the Xbox 360, as they …