IE8 Proved Better than most browsers
Windows Internet Explorer 8 caught 85% of the live threats, an exceptional score which surpassed the next best browser (Apple Safari 4) by a 56% margin. Internet Explorer 8 improved 4% between the Q3 2009 and Q1 2010 tests, maintaining its leadership, NSS Labs reveals. IE8 blocked 81% of all socially engineered malware in the last quarter of 2009, and 69% in Q1 2009. The percentage growth of course reflects the evolution of the browser itself in terms of the security it is capable of offering users.
IE8 comes with the SmartScreen Filter, a security feature designed to protect customers from web-based attacks. According to statistics from Microsoft, no less than one in 250 downloads is malicious code, and the end user has been tricked into downloading malicious code and infecting the computer. Eric Lawrence, IE program manager, offered an insight into the work that made IE8 the best choice for staying safe while online against socially engineered malware.
“Since we launched IE8 in March 2009, SmartScreen has blocked over 560 million attempts to download malware, recently averaging over 3 million blocks per day! Hosted in datacenters around the world, SmartScreen’s URL Reputation Service (URS) has evaluated over 250 billion URLs to help keep IE8 users safe from malware. Even more impressively, since IE7’s Phishing Filter was introduced in 2005, the URS has processed over 5.7 trillion requests to block malicious web sites. Every day, Microsoft receives around 300 million telemetry reports from IE8 users and processes 4.1 billion URLs looking for malicious websites and files. On the back end, our systems and analysts evaluate over 1 terabyte of binaries every day to help identify sites delivering malware,” Lawrence said.
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Office 2010 : Coming & free for many
Microsoft office 2010 has been a long awaited product now, After the excitement Microsoft has finally made clear of the launch date for the RTM version of the product. May 12th is the official launch date set for this. While Microsoft intents to RTM the version by April 2010. The official availablity to Customers would encur in June 2010.
Another addition to this is a new offer, which gives a free upgrade to Customers who buy Microsoft Office 2007 after or on March 5 2010. eligiblity for this scenario is under:-
The Office 2010 Technology Guarantee will be fulfilled online, via download, at no additional cost.
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Windows 8 to get USB 3.0 mainstream
As Claimed by Intel, USB 3.0, will get mainstream with Windows 8**
Technology is always something that consumes time and resources to grow out, either its HDMI or going higher into High Definition or the USB bus that gives us the basic taks related to computing, Technology plays a tricky role with everything. USB 3.0 is something pretty close to that. There were speculations of USB 3.0 to get mainstream sooner, but recently Intel’s representative speaking at CeBIT in germany cleared that USB 3.o will still take a couple of years to evolve and get mainstream. It was cleared that USB 3.0 will become mainstream only till the next version of Windows ( supposedely called Windows 8)(Unconfirmed by Microsoft)**
Microsoft current version of Windows, i.e 7, was released on octuber 22nd 2009, which proved out to be a major success. Windows 8** or the next version of Windows Client OS is yet to be time tabled, but estimates say there is a probable chance of getting a release by 2011 end or in 2012. But Intel’s representative told clearly that USB 3.0 will indeed be supported fully in the next Version of Windows. There are ongoing rumours about Windows 7 to include the support for USB 3.0 in its first service pack that is due in April of this year.
Bit ‘O’ Fact
USB 3.0 is capable of delivering dramatic performance improvements over version 2.0, which maxes out at 480Mbps. By contrast, provided that a computer’s hardware (the type of storage drive and motherboard) play nice with USB 3.0, the technology can, at least in theory, deliver transfer rates of up to 5Gbps. One of the best things about USB 3.0 is the fact that it’s fully compatible with its precursor, version 2.0.
Windows 8** Microsoft added sometime back ” Who says we will call it Windows 8″
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Windows 7 targets 300 Million Sold Copies in 2010
Windows 7 has been a great success for Microsoft, You might have read earlier on my blog that Microsoft Windows 7 Sold over 90 million copies in the first four months of the official release. Its no big deal if the company sets out to get somewhat 300 million in 2010. To be precise, Microsoft has officially announced the sales target for Windows 7 for the year 2010 to be 300 million. This was announced by Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer when speaking at the CeBIT in Hanover, Germany on March4, 2010.
When you think about Windows 7, the most successful operating system we’ve ever released in our history. It’s the highest-quality operating system we’ve ever released in our history,” Turner said. “This year they will sell 300-plus million PCs. That’s what the forecast is. You know what, Windows will be on 300 million of those PCs this year and that’s an incredible statement to that particular product and the opportunity that we have to continue to work with customers and end users and consumers, as well as refresh the desktops for enterprises.”
“The PC industry will be overwhelmingly driven by mobile PCs, thanks to strong home growth in both emerging and mature markets,” George Shiffler, research director at Gartner, explained. “Mini-notebooks are again forecast to boost mobile PC growth in 2010, but their contribution is expected to decline noticeably afterward, as they face growing competition from new ultra-low-voltage (ULV) ultraportables and next-generation tablets. Desk-based PC shipment growth will be minimal and limited to emerging markets.”
“We expect mobile PCs to drive 90 percent of PC growth over the next three years,” Shiffler added. “In 2009, mobile PCs accounted for 55 percent of all PC shipments; by 2012, we expect mobile PCs to account for nearly 70 percent of shipments.”
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Windows 7 : Over 90 Million Copies SOLD
Microsoft has sold in excess of 90 million copies of Windows 7 after just four months since the operating system hit store shelves. Windows 7’s official launch was on October 22nd, 2009, although the platform had been finalized months earlier with the RTM on July 22nd. At the start of 2010, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer noted at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show that Windows 7 was the fastest selling operating system in history. At the end of that month, the software giant revealed that it had sold in excess of 60 million licenses for the OS.
“Today during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, [Microsoft] Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein announced that Windows 7 has sold 90 million licenses to-date! That’s a lot of Windows 7. We’re humbled and excited that people are responding so positively to Windows 7 – our customers have made it the fastest selling operating system in history,” Brandon LeBlanc, Windows communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team, revealed.
The number offered by Klein is in line with the statistics made public by Internet metrics company net Applications. Windows 7 is credited with a usage share of 8.92%, up from 5.71% at the end of December 2009. After just four months on the market, Windows 7 owns more than half the market share of Windows Vista, which is down to 16.51%. If the current trends continue, Windows 7 will become the second most used operating system worldwide after Windows XP by mid-2010.
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