Posts Tagged ‘ Microsoft

Bring the Beauty of Bing to Your Desktop with Bing Wallpaper Pack

Bing Wallpaper Pack Bring the Beauty of Bing to Your Desktop with Bing Wallpaper Pack

Microsoft is trying to promote their search engine Bing. A few days ago, Microsoft launched Bing Desktop, a program that downloads images from Bing and automatically sets as the wallpaper on your computer desktop. Now, Microsoft released Bing Wallpapers Pack that contains 12 high resolution wallpapers with some of the most beautiful images from Bing, as well as a screen saver.

The wallpaper pack is an executable file of 10 MB, which when executed, in addition to installing the wallpapers, asks if you… Read More

Bring Bing Search Box and Homepage to Your Desktop with Bing Desktop

Bing Desktop Bring Bing Search Box and Homepage to Your Desktop with Bing Desktop

Bing Desktop is a tool that brings a different image and Bing search box to your computer desktop. This makes the process of search on the internet much faster, because you don’t have to open the browser, access the search site and wait until the results are shown. Just type in what you want and Bing Desktop will do the rest.

The interface of the program has two important buttons; one for accessing main settings and another tool to find out more information about the image… Read More

Ribbon Disabler for Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Ribbon Disabler Ribbon Disabler for Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Windows 8 Consumer Preview uses the Ribbon interface in different Windows, including the Windows Explorer. However, if you don’t like the feature, you can use the Ribbon Disabler to disable it, at least in Windows Explorer. Please note that this utility does not remove the Ribbon of applications such as Paint and WordPad.

The Ribbon is a graphic introduced by Microsoft Office 2007 that serves to group commands and controls in a horizontal stripe at the top of the screen of an application. Almost… Read More

Surprise: Microsoft Is One of the Main Linux Kernel Contributors

 Surprise: Microsoft Is One of the Main Linux Kernel Contributors

For the first time ever and probably only temporarily, Microsoft may be considered one of the main contributors to Linux. The company, which has portrayed the free operating system as a form of cancer, was classified at 17th place in the list of the largest contributors of Linux kernel.

Report from the Linux Foundation, released on 3rd April, summarizes those who have contributed to the Linux kernel. The 10 largest contributors listed in the report are familiar names; Red Hat, Novell, Intel, IBM, Texas… Read More

Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 (Technical Preview)

Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 Technical Preview Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 (Technical Preview)

A few days ago Microsoft has made available the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The major software companies have already started the upgrade process to make their products compatible with Windows 8, between these companies could not miss those manufacturers of security applications such as Kaspersky.

Kaspersky is a Russian company specializing in computer security products such as personal firewall, anti-spam and antivirus. Two days ago, Kaspersky has released a preview release, Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 2013 Beta for Windows 8… Read More

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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The wait came to an end; Microsoft has finally launched the beta version of Windows 8, Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Now you can download and test the beta version of Windows 8 (Consumer Preview).

Windows 8 Consumer Preview more accurately reflects the final product. It has significant changes from the previous version (Developer Preview). According to Microsoft, there are more than 100 thousand changes. Downloads are available in 32-bit ISO Image (2.5 GB) and 64-bit ISO Image (3.3 GB) in English, Chinese, French, German and Japanese, and… Read More