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  • Windows 7 has a new way of handling disk defragmentation0January 26, 2009

    Windows 7 has a new way of handling disk defragmentation

    It may not be one of the sexier changes Microsoft has made in Windows 7 beta, but the company has changed the way the operating system handles disk defragmentation. Microsoft developers Rajeev Nagar and Matt Garson have written a lengthy post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog explaining how fragmentation occurs, how modern hardware like high [...]

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  • Is Sony’s Playstation 3 losing the fight?0December 31, 2008

    Is Sony’s Playstation 3 losing the fight?

    Despite Sony’s Playstation 3 quarterly sales growth doubling from last year, the end result from this year’s holiday sales doesn’t bode well according to the Wall Street Journal. Sony hoped the PS3 would take the number-two spot in video-game consoles, as it currently trails the Wii and Xbox 360, respectively. Instead, PlayStation 3 sales are down 19 [...]

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  • Metal Gear Solid coming to Xbox 360?1December 7, 2008

    Metal Gear Solid coming to Xbox 360?

    Konami sure knows how to cause a stir. An update to the official Konami’s Kojima Productions website seems to suggest that Metal Gear Solid may finally make its way to the Xbox 360. We will admit that this might be a bit of stretch but the black and green coloring of the symbol-filled website is [...]

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  • Windows Vista SP2 beta available to public0December 6, 2008

    Windows Vista SP2 beta available to public

    Microsoft has made the Vista SP2 beta publicly available. Early adopters can install it now and take advantage of improvements like 10% better power saving, reduced resource consumption in sidebar gadgets, Windows Search 4, and a long list of security and bug fixes. According to Wired’s post, you should be aware that you’ll have to uninstall the [...]

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  • ZunePhone is “Pink”1November 30, 2008

    ZunePhone is “Pink”

    Microsoft is on the move to produce a smart phone based on their Zune. Microsoft is in the works to produce the new smart phone with the new technologies they had bought in February (as we can remember, Microsoft had bought Sidekick smart phone manufacturer Danger in February), which will bring together Zune and Sidekick technology, [...]

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  • Chrome goes out of beta and into OEM0November 22, 2008

    Chrome goes out of beta and into OEM

    Google announced Chrome will be out of beta status in January and will come installed with new systems. Google vice president Sundar Pichai said in a interview that Google’s one and only browser Chrome will be out of beta status in January, heating up the browser battle. “We didn’t show ourselves much because the software was still [...]

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  • Windows 7 coming in mid-20090November 8, 2008

    Windows 7 coming in mid-2009

    At a presentation at the WinHEC conference, we read that information regarding Microsoft’s release date of the newly polished Vista, the Windows 7. Looking at Microsoft’s previous statements, it was pointed out that Windows 7 might be released three years after Vista (2010), but it seems now that they might be in front of their [...]

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