Well, today marks one year since Microsoft launched Windows 7 to the general public. By the sounds of it, Windows 7 has been a great success from Microsoft – after the dismal performance of Windows Vista. Windows 7 (as of September 2010) has a market share of 17% which is pretty amazing for 12 months …
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Oct
08
2010
Microsoft Dreamspark – free Microsoft software for students
I can’t believe I’ve only just stumbled across this, but Microsoft are now offering a whole bundle of professional software to students for free. They call it Microsoft Dreamspark, and it’s a website ran by the company. If you’re in post-16 or university education, you can get a hefty chunk of their professional software for …
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Feb
03
2010
Office 2010 is now in release candidate, public copy not available (yet)
Microsoft is already handing out the release candidate to a select group of testers. Microsoft has given a select group of testers access to the latest build of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite – the release candidate. Sadly, at present, the release candidate isn’t available for public download. However, I would think that Microsoft will probably give …
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