Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

WrapUp: Microsoft Reveals How Windows 7 is “Version 7″, VistaSwitcher Improves Alt-Tab, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

October 26th, 2009
WrapUp: Microsoft Reveals How Windows 7 is “Version 7″, VistaSwitcher Improves Alt-Tab, and More

BizSpark Provides a 3-Year MSDN Subscription for Small Businesses

A few weeks ago a lot of sites were writing about a web developer program from Microsoft that provided web-related software at no upfront cost. When you end your membership you will, however, have to pay a $100 fee.

October 6th, 2009
BizSpark Provides a 3-Year MSDN Subscription for Small Businesses

WrapUp: Windows 7 Relaxes CableCard Restrictions, Google Spreadsheets’ SQL-like Syntax, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

September 14th, 2009
WrapUp: Windows 7 Relaxes CableCard Restrictions, Google Spreadsheets’ SQL-like Syntax, and More

New Windows Live Movie Maker is Nice

Last week Microsoft released a new version of Windows Live Movie Maker that I have to admit is rather impressive. I took some time to play around with it over the weekend, and the Ribbon interface makes creating movies so easy that I actually feel like new computer users could grasp how to do it in a matter of minutes.

August 25th, 2009
New Windows Live Movie Maker is Nice

WrapUp: Chrome Gets Jumplist Support, iTunes 9 with Blu-ray, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

August 10th, 2009
WrapUp: Chrome Gets Jumplist Support, iTunes 9 with Blu-ray, and More

Timing of Google Chrome Operating System Announcement Questioned

If asked which operating systems were most popular, most of you would list the usual: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix. Come the second half of 2010, to that list we will be able to add the Google Chrome Operating System which will be both open source and lightweight.

July 8th, 2009
Timing of Google Chrome Operating System Announcement Questioned

Microsoft Wisens Up to Windows 7 Cracks?

Over the weekend I decided to download Windows 7 Build 7264, which is the latest build to have been leaked. This was considered to be an RTM escrow build, which meant that this would have been the version that gets shipped given that Microsoft didn't find any show-stopper bugs.

July 7th, 2009
Microsoft Wisens Up to Windows 7 Cracks?

Will Windows 7 Taskbar Shortcuts Replace System Tray Icons?

In Windows 7 Microsoft has significantly changed the way the Taskbar works, and it's starting to make me wonder if a lot of the items sitting in the System Tray might work their way out onto the Taskbar. What do I mean? A good example is this Gmail Notifier that gHacks found.

June 4th, 2009
Will Windows 7 Taskbar Shortcuts Replace System Tray Icons?

Microsoft Does Image Search Right with Bing

I've been playing with Microsoft's Bing search engine over the last day to see how it stacks up to the others. The thing I always find when trying out a new search engine is that it's so hard to find what I'm looking for because I've grown accustomed to formulating Google queries just right.

June 2nd, 2009
Microsoft Does Image Search Right with Bing

RichCopy: Free Robocopy Alternative from Microsoft

At work I use Microsoft's Robocopy command line tool almost everyday for copying files between multiple environments. Digital Inspiration dug up a real gem though, and it's a tool Microsoft recently released called RichCopy. It not only has a nice graphical interface for copying files, but also comes packed with a few handy features.

April 9th, 2009
RichCopy: Free Robocopy Alternative from Microsoft