Microsoft News

Amazon Instant Video App Now Available On Xbox 360

pradeep — Tue, 29 May 2012 17:21:57 +0000

The long awaited Amazon Video app for Xbox 360 is now available for download. All videos you’ve purchased or have currently rented from Amazon are now available on your Xbox 360. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can also stream the entire Prime Instant Video library on your Xbox 360. Amazon Prime: Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers who [...]

Windows 8 Release Preview Build Leaked ?

pradeep — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:36:11 +0000

As per the announcement from Microsoft, we will be able to download Windows 8 Release Preview early next month. But the latest Release Preview build 8400 has already got leaked in p2p sites. Winunleaked forum has links to it and has also confirmed that its a legit build. If you are too interested in trying [...]

Microsoft HealthVault Now Open To Users Outside US

pradeep — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:14:50 +0000

Microsoft HealthVault, the personal health platform to manage health and wellness is now open to public outside USA. HealthVault was open only to US users so far, but now Microsoft has decided to expand its reach. Its a trusted place for people to organize, store, and share health information online. It works as a platform for 3rd party services [...]

Dell Windows 8 Tablet Latitude 10 Leaked ?

pradeep — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:32:28 +0000

We all know that Dell is working on multiple Windows 8 tablets to release later this year. Today Neowin posted information about the upcoming Windows 8 tablet from Dell called Latitude 10. Its a x86 based tablet with Intel Clover Trail processor, 2GB RAM, 10.1 inch screen with HD ready screen, 8MP rear and a [...]

Microsoft To Integrate Adobe Flash In Internet Explorer 10

pradeep — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:23:39 +0000

We all thought Microsoft was on the way to completely abandon plug-ins like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight. It was like Windows 8 on ARM doesn’t support Adobe Flash and Metro Internet Explorer 10 won’t be able to display Flash websites. But now, Microsoft has different plans. They are going to integrate Adobe Flash in Internet Explorer 10 [...]

Microsoft Estimates 500 Million Windows 8 Users In 2013

pradeep — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:28:05 +0000

Speaking at the Seoul Digital Forum, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer commented on their upcoming release Windows 8. He said that it will be the “deepest, broadest and most impactful” Windows software by Microsoft and “It’s really, in some senses, a dawning of the rebirth of MS Windows… It’s certainly the most important piece of work [...]

Microsoft Details Fast Boot Experience On Windows 8

pradeep — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:24:12 +0000

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video. Microsoft has today detailed the new improved boot experience coming to Windows 8 later this year. Windows 8 will feature modernized and touch-enabled core boot loader and the boot will be very fast as well. Here are the things they did in this release, We pulled together all the options into a single [...]

Kinect For Windows SDK v1.5 With Kinect Studio Now Available For Download

pradeep — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:30:39 +0000

As announced few months before, Microsoft today released its Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5. The new SDK version features many new items such as Skeletal Tracking, Face tracking, Seated Skeletal tracking and other improvements that will allow developers to create apps on Kinect more accurately and easily. Changes since v1, The Kinect for Windows v1.5 [...]

Windows 8 To Come With News, Travel And Sports Apps From Microsoft

pradeep — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:04:42 +0000

In Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we found some pre-installed apps from Microsoft such as Weather, Maps, Finance etc,. which are powered by Bing. According to Winunleaked forums, Windows 8 Release Preview will include even more apps from Microsoft such as News, Sports and Travel. I’m sure that News and Travel apps will be powered by [...]

Microsoft Talks On The New Metro Look Of Windows 8 Desktop

pradeep — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:35:39 +0000

In a long blog post on discussing how Windows Desktop evolved over the years, Microsoft detailed how they are going to change the Windows 8 Desktop looks so that it will go great with the WinRT apps and the new Start Menu. As we reported before, the Aero Glass theme is now gone and is being replaced by [...]