Microsoft unveiled a Work touch-desk concept at the Convergence 2007 conference. Vista didn’t make me go ‘Wow’, this did!

Watch the video…

[via Ring Nokia]

One of the leads in the user interface and design of Windows Home Server has a blog. Kynan Antos who works at Microsoft on the Windows Home Server project has posted a few designs he made of what the Home Server Console would look like - very interesting indeed. You can see from the different images how they’ve evolved and how the final view looks. In chronological order - from left to right - all the way through to the current.

Source: antosdesign

I burst out laughing when I saw this ad in which Ballmer is doing everything he can to sell Windows 1.0 (1986)



We have reason to believe that the next version of Windows Server will be named Windows Server 2007 according to an article on the MSDN Library where it mentions the abovenamed a few times.

Check the article here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx

Update: Bink.nu has also reported this.

These latest figures are from Neilsen NetRatings from March 2007.

Windows Live Hotmail: Unique Users: 32,963,416 - Page Views: 7,051,909,897
Windows Live Messenger: Unique Users: 26,240,676 - Page Views: 34,420,058
Windows Live Spaces: Unique Users: 128,298,007

Update: I can’t quite work out where these figures relate to… I think they might be for the United States, but I’ve lost track of it. Sorry

I was really excited when I found out that you can use a USB drive as a RAM booster on Vista but was disappointed when Vista decided that my USB drive (1GB Microsoft MVP edition) does not meet the requirements. WTF??

Well, I came across an article by Chris..

“Got a USB stick that Windows Vista doesn’t want to use for memory? Read how to use it anyway.

Sooner or later, everyone’s computer tends to slow down. Call it old age or simply doing too much, but even the most cutting edge PC’s seem to lag after a year or so of use.

For those who aren’t keen on opening up their PC to put in more memory, Windows Vista has a handy little feature called ReadyBoost that can use USB sticks for additional memory. Unfortunately, Windows Vista doesn’t take kindly to the slower sticks on the market and refuses to use them. Proving once again that we control the computer and not the other way around, here’s four simple steps to get around this limitation and use any USB stick you have to increase your computers memory.”

Click here to read the article and boost your PC speed in no time!

(It seems to be down, Click here to see the cache)

You’ve probably heard already by now that Beta 3 of Windows Server “Longhorn” has been released and is ready to be shown off to the world, and to save you navigating half of Microsoft’s website, you can just click the links below.

We have no idea when, or indeed if these links will die, so hurry up and download them now before it’s too late. We recommend using Free Download Manager as it’ll resume your download quite nicely if you get disconnected. Read more at www.microsoft.com/getbeta3.

Links at source

While news on the “Live Drive” front has been rather non-existant of late, there are some signs that may be about to change. A new service, Windows Live Folders beta, was recently listed on the Windows Live Feedback site, though it was only a matter of days before it was removed. While it doesn’t take a genius to work out this is likely to be a storage service, the question is what will it be? A revamped FolderShare, the “Live Drive” cloud storage service everybody has been waiting for, or a combination of both?

The initial details being discussed at TechEd last year were for a cloud storage service offering 2GB of space for free. Looking at services that have been operating in this market for a while, this figure seems to be lower than what will eventually be offered. Xdrive currently offers 5GB for free and 50GB for $9.95 a month but without the economies of scale that Microsoft can draw upon. (The newest Microsoft datacenter opened in Quincy at the end of last month and more are on the way.) Interestingly enough, the online Apple service .mac is still offering a basic service of just 1GB for $100 a year and a total of 4GB for another $100 a year. With Windows Live Hotmail offering a 2GB inbox (Hotmail Plus 4GB), it definitely makes sense for a Windows Live cloud storage service to offer significantly more than this.

The other key feature that was talked about last year is being able to map your online storage to your PC so you can access it as you would any other drive. The existing Windows Live Messenger feature, Shared Folders, does this already for peer-to-peer sharing, so perhaps this is where the name Windows Live Folders comes in.

To save our intrepid readers from doing this themselves, folders.live.com currently points to the new Windows Live beta site. One question I do have is how would people use a cloud storage service and therefore how much storage space would they need - would you pay for more if the price was right?

Source: LiveSide

The Xbox elite that was out before its street date release (Apr. 29th) is now on eBay. It was put up for $600 but the current bit stand at $5000 USD. With 14 hrs to go, I can only see the bids going higher…

Click here to see the eBay listing.

A ‘Target’ Store sold an Elite too early. They are officially going to be released around 29th April ‘07 in the U.S.

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