As you all know that we have a Skinning Contest goin on. The categories are CursorXP, LogonStudio, and BootSkin and First three postion holders in each category will recieve a FREE WC Subsription from the supponsors of the contest (Ama02, Fairyy~, me Black Xero, Bichur, Jafo, and Apocalypse_67). The idea was presented by Apoclypse_67 and he is the main supponsor and then rest of us joined in. The contest started on 26/08/05 (Eastern Time) and will continue till 09/09/05 (Eastern Time). For det...

August 24, 1995 was the day when Microsoft released its first true GUI based Operating System named as Windows 95. Windows 95 spread like a jungle fire and within two post-release months, over one million "registered" copies were sold and pirated ones are even un-countable. Although, speaking in terms of real numbers, Windows 95 accounts for just over one percent of the Windows client operating environment installed base total today but Microsoft's officials have admitted that one of their...

October 23, 2001, the release date of iPod, might always be remembered and considered as D-Day for Apple. iPod brought real twists and warps in music market. iPod was not based on a new concept. Companies before Apple released hard drive based music players, but none had the charm and elegance in the Apple implementation. Unlike the competitors, the iPod used a high speed FireWire interface to transfer files on and off of it, and it used a tiny hard drive, that made the device a quarter of the...

As Windows Vista Beta 1 released, the word-war started whether Microsoft has copied Apple's Tiger techonologies or not. Some say that Microsoft has copied, they give examples of similarity in icons, presentation system approach, and icon naming, and some say that Microsoft has not copied but improved, they quote the examples of features like virtual folders, network presentation and search as you type. Eweek has done a comparision of both operating systems and result came out in form of a ...

"Transparent Tilebars" is a unique feature of Microsoft's upcoming operating system named Windows Vista. But now, you can get same styled Explorer and Internet Explorer on Windows XP by using the standalone widgets created by tR0jAn. DesktopX is the revolutionary program that gives power users and novice users alike the ability to design their own custom Windows desktops.

Paul Thurrot has written an in-depth preview on Windows Vista Beta 1. He has divided his exclusive article into three parts: Part - 1 covers introduction and installation process Part - 2 deals with User Interface Part - 3 covers misc. topics like gaming, security, and Internet Explorer 7. Some bits and bytes from the article: Virtual Folders: Think back to when Windows 95 first shipped. Windows 95 let you create shortcuts to documents and folders in more easily accessible plac...

According to microsoft-watch.com, Microsoft plans to restart its stalled Longhorn evangelism effort with another all-volunteer army. Their source is Microsoft employee, Longhorn evangelist Robert Scoble, who has announced in his official web log ( Link ) that he has been authorized to hire a new army of evenglists to re-birth the Team 99. Microsoft employee, Longhorn evangelist Robert Scoble, announced on his blog this weekend that he has been authorized to restart the "Team 99" Longhorn e...

Longhorn and Tiger were the topics of this week. In this week, Microsoft showed off some of the beef to expect in Longhorn and Apple Computer unleashed Tiger. The Battle Ground Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave computer makers a brief look at Longhorn, but acknowledged that many of its key features will not be evident until much later test versions of the new Windows. A fraction of the new features will make it into an initial beta this summer. Microsoft wouldn't say when a subse...

According to Computerworl.com Microsoft is planning to embed Virtual Technology in its upcoming OS Codenamed Longhorn. The project has been codenamed "hyperviso" Microsoft Corp. this week fleshed out the details of a plan to build virtualization capabilities directly into Windows as part of its effort to catch up to virtualization software market leader VMware Inc. Microsoft's plan adopts an architecture similar to the one VMware uses -- a point that VMware seized upon as a validat...

It's official—Apple Computer Inc. has released the long-awaited, much-speculated-upon OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system, an upgrade to the current OS X, complete with a smattering of bells and whistles. Apple says that its new OS, Mac OS X version 10.4, or Tiger, contains more than 200 new features and applications. The highlights are Spotlight, a desktop search technology; and Dashboard, a new way to access information using widgets. The OS also allows for videoconferences with other Tige...

According a CNET News, Longhorn will run on older systems. "Although Microsoft is recommending that computers be pretty modern to fully run the next version of Windows, Longhorn will probably also run on a good number of older machines." "The bad news is that Longhorn is going to look and run quite differently on those older systems. Computers with a 3GHz processor and 512MB of memory, for example, will get all of the bells and whistles including fancy graphics and the ability to ha...

According CNET News, Microsoft has finally unveiled 64-Bit WindowsOS which has been named WindowsXP x64. There's no question about it: 64-bit computing is the future, because it promises better performance and room to grow for memory-hungry applications and operating systems. In fact, millions of people already use desktops and laptops with 64-bit processors that have been available from AMD since 2003 and Intel since February 2005. With the release of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition a...

Winbeta has an exclusive review of Longhorn 5048 Build (Presented at WinHEC). Along with other new features, two most important and striking features are DWM and Redesigned Start Menu . DWM or The Desktop Window Manager is a component that manages window policies, behaviors and visual appearance. Redesigned Start Menue If you're like me, your programs menu has no doubt become a massive, unwieldy list of programs, with multiple panes on the fly-out menu. That's a real nuisa...

Microsoft's insider Paul Thurrott has posted new screen shots of Longhorn build 5048. Have a look at them at link provided.

AMD launches Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors for server and workstations and unveils AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor for consumers and business users AMD officially launched its dual-core Opteron processors for high-end servers Thursday at an event in New York City. The company is also preparing a dual-core desktop processor dubbed the AMD Athlon 64 X2, which will launch in June and go head to head with Intel's dual-core Pentium chips. Dual-core processors are the next evolutio...