Some DOS commands take a while for running through. If you don’t want to wait until the command has finished running, you can cancel it.
Safer Internet Day 2010: Advice for using social networks safely
Today is the international Safer Internet Day 2010, promoting safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones. This year’s topic: “Think B4 U post!”.
Facebook Home, reinvented.
The social network Facebook has rolled out a new home page layout. The top navigation as well as the sidebar and footer have been changed.
What Facebook knows about non-members
Often, Facebook knows non-members surprisingly well: Facebook is also collecting data about non-members—with the aid of the members.
Sinofsky: “There’s no SD slot in the cloud”
In an interview with ZDNet UK, Microsoft Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky has talked about the future of Operating Systems. He highlighted that Microsoft doesn’t fear the competition too much.
Windows 7: Release Candidate starts nagging soon
Some users are probably still using Windows 7 Release Candidate. In the coming weeks and months though, these preliminary OS versions will stop working, according to a reminder issued by Microsoft TechNet.
Are your data safe? Firefox will show you.
Many users wonder whether the wesite they just want to sign up will treat your private data sensitively. With the browser Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation wants to give an answer.
Windows Azure Officially Launched
With Windows Azure and SQL Azure, Microsoft has launched its first Cloud Computing services in 21 countries. From now, Microsoft’s partners can sell services based on Azure.
Yahoo Becomes Default Search Engine in Ubuntu
The Web company Yahoo! has completed a cooperation agreement with Linux distributor Canonical, supervising the development of Ubuntu. On new installs, the default search engine will be Yahoo!.
New features in Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4
Hotmail Wave 4 gets new features like Starring items as well as displaying messages in conversations. Thus, Microsoft fulfills its promise to watch closely what users like in competitive services, like Google’s web mailer.