New Office 15 app planned?
On a recent analysts and press event, Microsoft talked about the “future of productivity.” Many ideas around Microsoft’s Office suite were discussed. Kurt DelBene, Microsoft...
Internet Explorer 9 RC now via Windows Update
Microsoft has started to deliver the Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 9 via the Automatic Updates feature in Windows 7 and Windows Vista in order to update the Beta. As...
How-to: Increase your Internet Speed
In this tutorial I'm going to show you a quick way to eliminate bandwidth restrictions. Windows OS comes to us with a lot of unknown restrictions and limitations. Usually it’s due...
Egypt is back on the Web
After five days, Egypt is partially back online: According to multiple sources, Web access works in the capital Cairo as well as in Alexandria. Obviously, Twitter and social...
How-to: Reduce hard disk access in Windows 7
Once per minute, Windows 7 writes a timestamp to disk. This enables diagnostic tools to check whether and when Windows has been shut down unexpectedly. However, this is only...
Google Analytics: In the focus of privacy advocates
Protecting my privacy on the web is important for me. Nevertheless, I feel that the discussion around privacy on the Internet has heated up more and more in the last years – too...
Rumor: Windows 8 to release in January 2013
Microsoft is perhaps going to release the Windows 7 successor later than expected. This is what rumors about Microsoft’s possible development roadmap might reveal that have now...
Test your website in different browsers - with ease
You are running your own blog or web site? You will surely be aware of the problem that your site is not displaying the same way in all browsers, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla...
New languages for Docs.com
Microsoft has published a back-end update for the Facebook service Docs.com. Besides a speed-up and increased stability, the update adds support for additional languages. Andrzej...
Update to Windows Live Wave 3 soon forced
Back in May 2010, the Windows Live team published an update for Windows Live Essentials 2009 (Wave 3). It introduced stability fixes as well as a simplification of the webcam...
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is done
Microsoft has finished the development of the first major update to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Service Pack 1 does not have any visible changes to the system, but bundles...
Soon it gets easier to delete Flash cookies
When website operators want to recognize a visitor, they store a small text file on your hard disk. This so-called cookie contains encrypted information and gets sent back to the...
Microsoft releases free website editor
By releasing the free website development environment WebMatrix, Microsoft continues collecting bonus points from web developers. After testing it for six months, the software has...
How-to: Enable the telnet command in Windows 7
Using the telnet command, tech-savvy ones can remote control other computers or check HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and more plain-text connections over the web, by using the telnet command....
How-to: Disable Windows Live Messenger
Upon installing the Windows Live Essentials package, you usually also get the Windows Live Messenger. Even if you don’t use it for chatting with friends, it keeps starting up...
Lost Hotmail inboxes are now back
In the official Windows Live blog, Microsoft’s Chris Jones informed that the Hotmail problems have now been fixed. Since 30 December, more than 17,000 customers did not have...
The 2010 Summary: Conclusion
At the end of 2010, we’re looking back to the last twelve months and ask ourselves: How has Windows Live developed in this year? Thereby, we see three major points: Connecting to...
The 2010 Summary: Part II
A year in review: 2010 has been both interesting and surprising for me. In this recap of July to December, you will get to know why. - July 2010 - On July 1, 2010, I found an...
How-to: Hide Messenger Companion notifications
Messenger Companion displays notifications to let you know you when your friends in Messenger have shared links to pages on the site you're visiting. If you don't want to be...
How-to: Hide Windows 7 libraries
In Windows 7, “My Documents” have been replaced by “Libraries”. However, not everybody uses the new folder structure. Many users still prefer to store their files in their own...