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Microsoft Kin will not be shipped this fall in Europe

Harsh news for social addict guys: It seams that Microsoft Kin phones(One and Two) will not be shipped this fall in Europe. We don't know yet if this means the end of Kin project, but this will be a loss almost surely for Microsoft and his customers. Meanwhile, in US, Microsoft will continue to sell the phone through Verizon and support customers. "We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we ar...

Microsoft Kinect sets a new level for consoles

Big news today: Microsoft Kinect(previous named Project Natal) is the next trend in consoles. The new Microsoft sensor was announced at Los Angeles during E3 and claims to be an entirely new way to experience entertainment in the living room. The sensor connects to any Xbox 360 device and through it's camera, audio and motion sensors tracks 48 points of body movements. With this new add-on you have the ability to control every move inside the game: "You simply step in front of the sensor a...

The next step into social is Microsoft Kin

It was a big day at San Francisco yesterday as Microsoft presented their first two phones: Kin One and Kin Two. The press event was called "It's time to share", probably because Kin phones will be the next step into social lives. With this Kin, Microsoft wants to forward social networks to the next level and get a valuable part of the mobile phone consumers. To merge social life with real life, Microsoft even made an experiment and picked a girl called Rosa to visit her social friends. The...

Internet Explorer 9 tries to overcome Mozilla

Microsoft wants again to win a battle against Mozilla Firefox and it seems Internet Explorer 9 is set to go. The announcement has been made during MIX 2010 which take place at Las Vegas during 15 and 17 of March. Internet Explorer is one of the browsers that we all had to use some day when we didn't knew we had another alternative to browse the Internet. In modern days IE browser is used just to browse towards Mozilla site and get Firefox browser. Statistics say that, we don't. :) At the b...

Microsoft reveals Windows 7 series phone at MWC 2010

First day from WMC 2010 has passed and now it's time to discover some of the concepts featured at Barcelona. The most expected announcement of day and maybe the congress, is the one made by Microsoft who made a preview of how Windows 7 series phone will look. The new OS has been presented by Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer itself and brings some quality updates. In the left picture we see that the start screen is a collection of live updates coming from several sources such as phone, social n...

Windows 7 Taskbar features

Launched last year in October, Windows 7 claims to be the most stable version of Windows after 98 or XP. We learned that it comes in 3 different version: Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and we saw what is the difference between them. We also learned, from our first post that Windows 7 system requirements aren't so high as Vista was: 1/2Gb RAM and an 1 Ghz processor should do it. Since it's been enough time to test this new operating system, today we discuss about the Taskbar. Before talk...

Windows 7 is alive

The wait is over...Windows 7 had been released on 22 October so we couldn't pass this event without writing something about it. Windows Vista was the previous operating system that Microsoft claimed to be a new wave inside our computers. We all know Vista has been just a pain in the arse: lack of drivers, resource killer, security problems and a lot of related issues destroyed our faith in Microsoft's operating systems(XP). Introduction Windows 7 is a simplified version of previous oper...