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Microsoft Offers Students Windows 7 Upgrade For $30

H-Bag — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:30:18 +0000

For a limited time, Microsoft is offering college students the new Windows 7 OS upgrade for a mere $30 when the new system comes out next month.

Soon students will be able to go ahead and pre-order their copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, with the only requirement being you have a college email address. This offer is good until January 3, 2010.

Microsoft Teaches Best Buy Workers How To Trash Linux

H-Bag — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:05:05 +0000

Wow. That’s almost all we can say. Apparently Microsoft has been a very busy little bee and has created a training manual for Best Buy employees that shows, creatively we might add, how to trash Linux.

Hilariously, according to the manual as it were, World of Warcraft isn’t even compatible with Linux, despite good support for it under WINE. Also, the idea of Windows Live Essentials as being a “free download” is a bit of hogwash we call know, especially since Linux has offered a slew of alternatives to the Windows Live Essentials.

All in all, we are yet again pretty disappointed by Microsoft. Shame, shame.

What?! Judge Bans Microsoft Word Sales Following Patent Suit

H-Bag — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:21 +0000

U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis of Eastern Texas is making history. The judge has effectively placed a ban on any Microsoft Word sales following a patent infringement suit.

The case was brought to court by Canadian company i4i who holds several XML-related patents and claims that Microsoft is their product.

As of right now Microsoft is being required to pay around $165,000 per day, “from May 21sto to August 11th, for pre-judgment interest and post-verdict damages.”

Wow. I guess there goes Bill’s 694,763,248 car. And the name is surely a bad sign, right? An i for an i….

Microsoft’s New Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 Keyboard & Mouse Set

H-Bag — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:59:07 +0000

Today is a day for mice. Microsoft’s new Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 Keyboard & Mouse Set is getting some rave reviews on the Windows 7 optimizations as well as comfort and ease of use.

The Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 features include a handy dandy Windows Flip button on mouse and keyboard, Device Stage support, Taskbar Favorites keys and all that you have come to expect from Microsoft desktops.

The duo will be out later this month for a price tag of $80.

Are You Using Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine?

H-Bag — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:11:03 +0000

With the launch of Microsoft’s search engine Bing a few months ago, we’re starting to wonder if you’re using this new kid on the block.

We gave the new SE a go and discovered that unless you’re using Bing for images or videos, Google far out wins the web search competition in maps, news and shopping.

Now it’s your turn, are you using it and have you converted?

Microsoft To Reveal New Search Engine Today

H-Bag — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:14:20 +0000

Microsoft is planning to reveal their new search engine to the public at large today.

The word on the street is that they’re calling the new search engine Bing, but maybe they should have just called it Google Hater.

Microsoft plans on spending upwards around $100 million on advertising the new engine, so here’s hoping that it will be a bada-bing kind of SE.

Windows Vista SP2 Ready For Download Now

H-Bag — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:42:50 +0000

You know you want to. It’s the Tuesday after the Memorial Day weekend and you know you have nothing better to do than download the new 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista for the Service Pack 2.

In between waiting for the launch of Windows 7, you don’t have any more appealing options than grab the latest service pack for both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista.

The packs support the new types of hardware standards and includes all of the updates you’ve needed since SP1. The new SP2 will allow you to enjoy Vista a bit more easily, if that’s even possible. (Mac now gags.)

Microsoft and Nokia Launch Online Mobile App Stores

H-Bag — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:05:08 +0000

Catching the cue from Apple’s iTunes App Store, Microsoft and Nokia have now launched their own mobile application stores during the 2009 Mobile World Congress.

The new trend to offer mobile users applications has made every phone company reconsider their market strategies.

Microsoft announced their app store, Windows Marketplace, last week and Noki revealed that their Ovi Store will be available for business come May.

Microsoft’s Windows 7 Looks Promising

H-Bag — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:33:23 +0000

The beta edition of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system shows that the company is trying to shore up many of the flaws of Windows Vista.

They are already changes to the Start Menu and taskbar in Windows 7, which are an improvement even over the backup plan XP.

The new OS beds down Vista fears and goes so far as to take features first introduced by Vista, although this time around, not making them so under-developed and inflexible.