Microsoft has switched into full gear and is now releasing new versions of the Internet Explorer on a regular basis. That’s good for the Internet as a whole, and especially good for Windows users who work with the system’s default browser. Not a lot of time has passed since the release of Internet Explorer 9. [...]

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The computing industry is unlike any other in the way that it divides people into one camp or another. People sometimes become fanatical about the way they follow one company, and they can be completely scathing about others. The example you’ll all be able to recognise here is Apple fans who will sometimes go to [...]

Categories: Apple, Google, Microsoft

Tomorrow Microsoft launch their new Office 365 business cloud platform integrating email, calendaring, office, sharepoint and intranets with communications and messaging.  It’s a big platform with a big future ahead of it as I wrote about the other day. Now Google are hitting out with a blog post entitled “365 reasons to consider Google Apps“.  [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft

As we get closer to the official release of the first major update for Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, more details of features are emerging, and some of them are looking extremely useful indeed. The expanded features list comes courtesy of WPSauce.com and includes… AppChecker – a feature that will find appropriate applications in the marketplace [...]

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Next Tuesday Microsoft officially launches its Office 365 product.  This product, which was expected for several years before any official announcement came, is the company’s new subscription service for business.  In short it takes the IT department into the cloud with email, calendaring, exchange, Office, Sharepoint intranet services, Messenger and their new Lync communications suite [...]

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It was only a matter of time until some began posting screenshots of the recently leaked build of Windows 8. News about the leak with the build number 7989 broke on June 18. We did not know a lot about that build back then, other than that it was compiled on April 21. The leak [...]

Categories: Windows

Here at gHacks we pride ourselves on giving you the very best help and advice, and it seems that we’re not the only ones who think so.  After an approach by the company, Microsoft have now confirmed that they will be putting my tutorial videos for Windows 7 on the official Microsoft support website at [...]

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SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud hosting service, has been around since 2007. The service gives users access to 25 Gigabytes of free online storage, for file hosting, sharing and collaboration. While it has been a great service to store data online from the start, it felt slow at times especially when navigating folders or photo albums in [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Online Services

It’s being reported that the US Federal Trade Commission has given the green light to Microsoft’s proposed buyout of Internet communications company Skype. The purchase was announced a few weeks ago and will cost the Redmond giant $8.5 billion. This will make the Skype purchase the company’s largest ever acquisiton in cash terms and is [...]

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