Bing Maps is getting into the navigation business in a bid to further deprive dedicated SatNav unit manufacturers. It now supports voice-guided navigation on Windows Mobile 6.x phones on a number of devices. Following in the footsteps of its rival in the mapping world, Google Maps, Bing has added turn-by-turn navigation capabilities with voice prompts [...]
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Microsoft Readies Windows, Office updates
March 8th, 2010
nrmodh Microsoft will ship two security updates on Tuesday to patch eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Office. In its monthly advance notification, Microsoft spelled out next week’s two-update Patch Tuesday, a far cry from February’s massive roll-out of 13 security bulletins that fixed 26 flaws. (See “Top 10 Security Nightmares of the Decade.”) The downturn was [...]
Windows 8 Will Be Completely Different From Previous Versions
February 27th, 2010
nrmodh Microsoft employee just posted details on Windows 8 on their blog, claiming it is going to be “completly different from what people usually expect of Windows,” and that internally, they’re calling it “Windows.next.” Shown above is a leaked Windows server roadmap from a year ago, that marks 2012 as the year of a “major release,” [...]



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