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Since the days Windows XP, one of the most underrated feature of Microsoft operating system has been its multiple user accounts that enable multiple users to access the same PC, without having to make their private files and folder visible to other users. Now, the same concept has been brought to the world’s most cherished tablet device, Apple iPad [...]

  Windows 7 finally has a stubborn XP in the U.S. market, says research institute StatCounter. According to the data obtained in the first ten days of April, July reached 32.2% against 30.7% participation of its predecessor. Vista has reached 19.5% and Mac OS, Apple has 14.8%. Since the release of Windows 7 in October 2009, Microsoft is emphasizing [...]

The Consumer Electronics Show 2011 (CES 2011) in Las Vegas proved to be platform was some of the most remarkable technologies as well as an assortment of gadgets and gizmos, that not only represented cutting edge advances in technology, but were quite refreshing as well. One such device is the all new Fuugo, which has been described as a video content [...]

One of the most widely cherished and incredibly popular web browsers, Firefox from the Mozilla Foundation is now speeding towards a vital upgrade, that would change the user experience with Firefox forever. Mozilla has now announced the availability of another Beta version for the highly anticipated Firefox 4.0. The all new Firefox 4 Beta 7 is currently [...]

Windows 7, released just over a year, has sold over 240 million units – an average of seven units per second, according to Microsoft. However, the system will still have to go a long way to overcoming Windows XP, although it seems to move in the right direction. The chief executive of the company’s marketing, Rich Reynolds, noted that the [...]

ASUS announced last Tuesday, the WX-DL, a wireless optical mouse and sensitive to touch. But this is not the main attraction, but the look of it. It looks like a disk, and in the top center has media controls. Remember the mouse that came with the iMac in the late 1990, that chubby one? And the Magic Mouse with no buttons? You could say that the model [...]

Windows 7, created by software giant Microsoft, has completed one year in this Oct. 22, leaving behind the criticism of Vista and showing that the company created a system capable of appealing to Greeks and Trojans. With over 240 million official copies were sold in this period, Windows 7 was faster in the marketing history of operating systems. According [...]

The fiasco of the Windows Vista operating system, wasn’t only limited to the Vista, but it had quite a bit of contribution from the embedded Internet Explorer 7 as well, that was in every which way, a disaster. Then came the successor, a more promising looking Internet Explorer 8, that although was able to attract a good amount of users, yet could [...]

Windows 7 has reached a major milestone in July. According to a survey of Web Analytics, the current Microsoft operating system now has 14.5% market share, compared to 14.3% from its predecessor. While Mac OS X, Apple, has lost ground for the fourth consecutive month. Research firm uses data acquired from 160 million unique visitors who browse in 40 [...]

The MindTeck, consulting company specializing in low-power systems, published as part of an article the result of comparing the power consumption of Windows XP with Windows 7. The results indicate that the latest version is more economical in all configurations tested, and the difference in consumption may reach 25%. An important factor for the research [...]