A Windows beta tester has sneakily slipped out a load of screenshots of the latest beta build of the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows on to the Web.
The screenshots reveal a series of grabs from the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system (version M3 Build 6780) and shows an interface that clearly reveals a Vista heritage with lots of shiny buttons and semi-transparent folders.
After casting envious looks at the hugely successful AppStore for the iPhone and hearing about Google’s proposed Android Market for the Android smartphone platform, Microsoft looks set to belatedly join the online mobile apps store party.
Netflix and Microsoft have signed a deal to stream films and TV programmes to the Xbox 360.
Starting in the autumn, over 10,000 films and TV episodes available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers who are Netflix subscribers, all for no additional cost.
Yahoo has firmly rebuffed a deal from Microsoft that would have seen the search giant selling off its search business and handing over the rest of the company to ‘activist investor’ Carl Icahn.
We can’t say it comes as much of a surprise to us, but a study has found that Mozilla Firefox users are the safest surfers on t’web, while Internet Explorer users are the worst at keeping their browser’s online security up to date.
Instead of going out to the local bar and celebrating with a vat of Budweiser, Yahoo execs spent the US national bank holiday weekend chewing the fat with their lead adviser, Goldman Sachs. Also pulling up a chair at the table were potential bid partners including Time Warner.
The fading search engine giant was getting jiggy with Time Warner in the hope of bagging a merger deal with its Internet arm, AOL, that could be worth as much as $10 billion (£5 billion) according to a report in The Times.
Microsoft is set to stop selling its long-serving Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers from today, with the company shunting all new customers on to its newer Vista operating system.
The news hasn’t gone down well with a sizeable slice of Windows users who really don’t fancy being forced into using the resource-hogging, eye candy treats of XP’s successor, but despite Internet campaigns, petitions and exhortations to keep XP soldiering on, Microsoft looks hell bent on retiring its venerable operating system.
Today Bill Gates is stepping away from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, having built the company from zero in 1975 to the giant it is today.
What a blunt knife Microsoft’s DRM is. We don’t know if you’ve noticed before, but some time in the last, Microsoft made change to their Media Player, stopping screen grabs of videos that are playing.
Clearly Microsoft thought this would be something that would appeal to content owners in fear of their work being taken without payment – even if it was only a single frame of it.
Microsoft has whipped open its colossal wallet once again and waved a hefty $486 million wad in the direction of Greenfield Online, owners of the popular European price comparison website,