Ok folks, take a seat for this one. Steve Ballmer did indeed announce the Microsoft Cloud earlier this month in what we could refer to a sudden sparkle of sanity. No matter if you believed him or not the cloud OS is upon us. And the name seems quite pleasant! We shall refer to it as the Windows Azure. This OS will probably be released together with Windows Vista 2 7, whenever that happens.

The announcement was made at this year’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 so we shall see more of it in the future. The Ballmer guy will surely enforce it. But let’s not judge beforehand! The Azure might actually work quite nice.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect said that the “Windows Azure is a new Windows offering in the Web tier of computing, a significant extension in the company’s family of platforms.” The Azure should help all developers createm deploy, manage and distribute web services and various application through the Internet. Wow, I mean that’s just wow! Are you still sitting down? We’ll see how the Azure develop in the future.

via Microsoft

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Besides iPhone firmware 2.2 beta 2, we heard that the Windows Vista SP2 is coming to town. Is it going to fix any problems? Well, did the last SP1 fix any significant problems?

We don’t know when the new update is actually set to arrive and we don’t know all of its features but we have a general idea. The SP2 is said to add Windows Search 4.0, Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack, ability to record data on Blu-ray medua and Windows Connect Now for simpler WiFi configuration. Wow!

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iPhone Dev Team delivers again. They managed to jailbreak iPhone firmware 2.1 for Mac users right from the first day, and just a couple of hours agoi they made available QuickPwn 2.1 for Windows users. (more…)

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While Apple is suing Psystar and Psystar is counter-suing Apple for minor things like copyright infringement or monopoly-like-something related to using Mac OS on cheap PCs, there’s a device which would make such a thing possible to every one of us.
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Remember how Jerry Seinfeld committed to start advertising for Microsoft’s Windows Vista for the neat price of $10 million? Well the first commercial is up and running. Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates start talking about Microsoft and their solution for a “chewey computer” after talking about shoes.
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The iPhone Dev Team managed to release two iPhone Pwnage Tools so far, one for Macs and one for Windows. The Pwnage Tool 2.0 for Macs had a couple of bugs which were fixed in an immediate follow up release of the Pwnage Tool 2.0.1.
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We’ve seen so far the amazing work of iPhone Dev Team who were able to break the iPhone out. Application freedom comes after jailbreaking the iPhone but unlocking isn’t just available yet. The Pwnage Tool was released twice already. The 2.0 version was very soon corrected by the 2.0.1 version.

Just in case you don’t own a Mac, there a Windows Pwnage Tool version for the 3G iPhone, iPhone and iPhone Touch. The Windows version will also jailbreak any of the iPhones or the iPod touch, but it won’t unlock the 3G iPhone yet.

via Giz

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As I was saying earlier, people would do anything to make a bad thing look good. I smell a rat here! When I say people I mean Dell. When I say bad thing I mean Windows Vista. Good must mean Apple-like and when I say rat, well I mean Microsoft.

Sure the Dock idea is nice but it’s so Apple. It looks really good and Dell promises it will be fully customizable. But will that make Vista run smoother? I don’t think so! I think I will have to get one more gigabyte of RAM just to make that Dock run.

Better get myself a fresh Windows XP copy as I know what the first thing will be when I get one of these Dells. Or maybe I might just install a Mac OS X on it.

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I think you should hurry and get that Dell laptop packed with Windows XP you wanted. Microsoft is going to discontinue XP while trying to shove Vista down our throats. I have nothing against that, after all Microsoft stands for monopoly right? But for God’s sake please make an OS that won’t crash and slow me down. How many times did you say that? How many times did Windows made your PC life miserable?
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Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
The web is full of pictures and news about Windows 7. Apparently Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have announced it. Isn’t this Windows Seventeen? I must be counting wrong but I am sure there were more versions that 7. Are they skipping Vista? Denial comes first I’ll give them that.
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Remember the colorful MSI PR200 YA Edition Laptops unveiled during the 2008 CES in Las Vegas? They are making inroads to German this month. Available in Denim Blue, Coral Pink and Wasabi Green, the YA200 series features Windows Vista Home Premium, Intel Core 2 Duo processor at the heart and a sleek 12.1″ TFT WXGA display.

Users can also enjoy WLAN 802.11n wireless networking, integrated fingerprint reader that lets only authorized users to logon. It can take in up to 4GB of RAM (one of which you will never see with Vista). Other goodies include a 4-in-1 card reader, a DVD Super-multi drive, 1.3 megapixel webcam and HDMI output.

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Webot, a remote media platform for browsers and mobile devices, now features a custom interface for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Touted as the first media player that lets N810 users access their media collection from anywhere over an internet connection, Webot customized its media search, sharing and player technologies to suite the tablet design.

Webot also supports the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. A nice thing about the service is that it can search and stream media from Windows, Mac OS and Linux machines.

More details at Webot

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