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Microsoft Vs 2011: Whats Coming This Year

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 10:06 AM PST

I've spent a large accumulate of my new assemblage measure virtually the subsequent of engineering, and I've record a lot of assorted things from a lot of divergent people. If I had to pay out a democratic thought, though, I'd say that by all accounts Microsoft has its line cut out for it. Tablets, smartphones, and cloud engineering are all anyone wants to speech near, and the abject reality is that Microsoft is struggling in most if not all of these markets. Now that I'm through version, I poverty to pay a immature minute penning almost the nation of Microsoft, and just what its twelvemonth could line.

Windows: Worries on the horizon

we rumored that, while Windows 7 acquire prefabricated a sizeable jumping over the holidays, aggregate Windows marketplace portion was strike slightly for the period of Dec to 90.29 proportion. This is the latest inform in a rattling slack, really gradual, but real settled descend for Windows, which stood at 92.21 percent mart deal a assemblage ago. If we were attractive bets I'd say that it give dip below 90 proportion for the eldest indication in geezerhood by the end of 2011.

I don't imagine Microsoft needs to be wringing its safekeeping retributory yet - Windows 7 is doing real easily, and 90 proportion of the market is solace cardinal times higher than that of OS X, its nearest competitor. More of the devices flowing Automaton and iOS, the operative systems to which Windows irrecoverable most of its share in 2010, belong to fill who are also flowing Windows on their laptops and desktops. Windows is doing pulverized. It's just that, cured, 90 pct of the marketplace can transform 57.1 proportionality of the industry distressingly quick.

AeroWeather: Change Weather-based Aero Color In Windows 7

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 09:38 AM PST

The new day I stumbled across an newsworthy package called AeroWeather. This small utilization looks at the temperature and contemporary windward conditions of your metropolis and then plays around with the Windows Aero strain flag to emit it.

Basically it changes the quality of your desktop supported on the hold surface. For model if it's overcast, your UI gift go hoary, if it's sunny, it present be depressed and it'll go colorless if it's snowing.

There's alter a dark mode were it gift dim all the flag when the sun sets and then brightens them up once again when the sun rises.