Bink.nu

Washington DC drops Microsoft for Google

Steven Bink — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:35:00 GMT

Washington DC is the latest organisation to decide Microsoft Office isn't worth the cash, moving to Google's suite of cloud products. Instead of Word, Excel and Outlook, 38,000 employees in...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0

Steven Bink — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:58:00 GMT

This download will install and register IFilters with the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Watch the Microsoft Small Business Summit October 14-16, 2008

MBrant — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:07:00 GMT

Mortgage meltdowns ... credit crunches ... sky-high gasoline prices ... large bank bailouts by the federal government ... The financial news has been dismal, and small business owners have every...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Another fake Microsoft patch spreads through email

Steven Bink — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:07:00 GMT

I just personally received this email, with an attachment KB730708.exe (which outlook blocks by deafult) Dear Microsoft Customer, Please notice that Microsoft company has recently...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Next Tuesday 11 patches

Steven Bink — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:59:00 GMT

MSRC Blog: I wanted to let you know that we just posted our Advance Notification for next week's bulletin release which will occur on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 around 10 a.m. Pacific Standard...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Microsoft announces release of Halo 3 sequel: Halo 3 Recon

MBrant — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:33:00 GMT

Microsoft announced the release of the Xbox360 exclusive Halo 3 Recon today at the Tokyo Game Show. Halo 3 Recon is the sequel to Halo 3 and brings a new storyline to the serie. The game is slated...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

New Windows Embedded build brings new theme

MBrant — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:30:00 GMT

User called marxo found a new Windows XP MCE-like theme in the latest CTP of Windows Embedded: This style can be found in the Windows Embedded Standard CTP Refresh. It's called...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

New Xbox Experience coming to your Xbox360 on Nov. 19

MBrant — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:28:00 GMT

Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2008 that the New Xbox Experience, a transformation in home entertainment, will launch on Wednesday, Nov. 19. On that day, millions of Xbox 360...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Zune's popularity increases in teen survey

Sumeeth Evans — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:05:00 GMT

Piper Jaffray's bi-annual teen survey includes some positive news for Microsoft's Zune music player. Yes, the survey says that Apple's share of the portable media player (PMP) market...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

“I’m a PC” "I'm Real" Interview with Sean Siler

Sumeeth Evans — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:03:00 GMT

Continue At Source Send via e-mail | Submit to Digg | Add to Live Favorites

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Rumor? Microsoft Preps External Blu-Ray Disc Optical Drive for Xbox 360.

Sumeeth Evans — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:01:00 GMT

Unlike Toshiba, which is still strictly against Blu-ray disc (BD) format, Microsoft, has always said that it might release an external Blu-ray optical disc drive for the Xbox 360 video game system if...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Windows 7 Build 6801 screenshots

MBrant — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:31:00 GMT

WinFuture.de posted up 34 screenshots of the latest Windows 7 build! Check out the source for the goodness. Send via e-mail | Submit to Digg | Add to Live Favorites

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Touchless

Vasudev — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:54:00 GMT

Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers. Touchless includes two parts: Touchless Demo is an open source application that anyone with a webcam can use...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

4 Softies and a Pizza Guy - P-D-C 2008

MBrant — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:34:00 GMT

Oh yes, even more PDC 2008 to warm up to! Microsoft made the following clip (just be sure to finish watching it) P-D-C, two thousand eight Windows 7 is coming and I can't wait. The desktop...

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu

Surface developer tools coming this month

Sumeeth Evans — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:14:00 GMT

The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month....

Continue this aticle on Bink.nu