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This free downloadable tool includes step-by-step instructions and explains fundamental concepts. The wide range of tools to help students with complex mathematics includes a full-featured graphing calculator that’s designed to work just like a hand-held calculator and ink handwriting support to recognize hand-written problems.
It can solve equations, graph equations, and function as a graphical calculator. It’s quite an awesome application from Microsoft that’s worth running Parallels (Windows) for.
To corral Office to just some future Microsoft tablet would be a mistake. That is, essentially, betting Office’s future relevance on the possibility that Microsoft will become a dominant player in future mobile computing. Instead, what would happen is that the millions of iOS and Android users will snap out of the Office trance and move on. Once they realize they don’t need office on their tablets, its utility on their desktops will also be questioned. Ubiquity lost.
Yeps. Microsoft, take your time…
iOS powered devices generate more revenue than all of Microsoft’s products put together
Looks fantastic for a company which was dying less than 10 years ago.
Mosaid said it will buy about 2,000 wireless patents from Core Wireless, which holds them for Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Microsoft (MSFT.O).
Mosaid said it will pay nothing for the patents, but will shoulder the costs of reaching licensing deals with other companies and take a one-third cut of any deals made.
The deal is “transformative” for Mosaid and revenue from future licensing will likely exceed the company’s revenue from its first 35 years in business, Mosaid Chief Executive John Lindgren told Reuters.
The Intellectual Property scene is set to look bloodier then ever in the years to come. Hopefully, this doesn’t stall technological development as badly as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has for the future of DVD.
Google doesn’t want to do what Motorola Mobility does (sell phones); it wants the company because it’s got a big heap of patents—seventeen thousand, apparently, with seven thousand more under review. And this is why today’s news is profoundly depressing.
I can sense that other Android OEMs, such as Samsung and HTC, would be rushing to find an alternative mobile OS, and Windows Phone 7 looks the most attractive thus far.
The smartphone landscape would be exciting to watch as upheavals are really threatening competitors without their own mobile OSes.
Skype Technologies SA, the Internet- calling service being bought by Microsoft Corp., is firing senior executives before the deal closes, a move that reduces the value of their payout, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Wow, I wonder why…
Apple is making their vision for the future quite clear with iOS, the iPad and Mac OS X Lion. Microsoft, for their part, seems to think the future will mostly resemble the present.
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These two approaches also create two very different visions for the future of computers. Microsoft’s integrates touch input for relatively limited purposes, with keyboard and mouse input as the PC’s serious and general purpose means of input. This means, then, that Microsoft’s vision for the future of computing is not that different than computers as we currently know them.
Apple’s approach, on the other hand, opens up very different devices, where touch is as important as the keyboard or mouse, or even more important. Apple isn’t allowing touch and PC user interfaces to coexist in the same OS; rather, they’re moving the PC user interface toward a touch interface.
I think Apple would be more instrumental in heralding in the future of computing, not Microsoft.
The app features an innovative interactive capture system that lets you see your progress during capture, powered by Photosynth’s computer vision algorithms. Your images are quickly stitched together into an interactive panorama which you can explore right on your device.
I never thought I’d say this, but this app is quite amazing. It stitches photos automatically to form 360º panoramas. That aside, the usual criticisms against Microsoft still stands—poor UI.
Yes, you can say that the UI is lifted from Windows Phone 7, but it’s no excuse for turning up in iOS devices. Ironically, there isn’t a version of Photosynth for WP7 devices; I wonder why.
Microsoft just declared the Zune end of life. This makes it a good time to look back to some notable episodes in the evolution of digital media distribution.
I think our generation is pretty fortunate to witness the forces of market disruption within such a short span of time.
Upgrading through every version of windows (via TheRasteri).
Windows fans out there, you may be interested in this video.
This update disables AutoRun entries in AutoPlay, and displays only entries that are populated from CD and DVD drives.
After so many years, Microsoft has finally neutered one of the most annoying Virus-attack vectors—Thumbdrive autorun.inf.
Available on Windows Update and manual download.
At this year’s CES two unthinkable things happened:
The abandonment of Windows exclusivity by practically all of Microsoft’s OEM customers.
The abandonment of Intel exclusivity by Microsoft for the next generation of Windows.
Just visualise the consequences!
Here’s another take on the badly performing Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.
Ah, finally!
Miscrosoft IE8’s reading comprehension test.
