TNW reports that Bing published a blog post highlighting that his iOS apps offers also maps.  Bing Just Got a New Phone? Time to Download the Bing App – Search Blog – Site Blogs – Bing Community via kwout Bing Targets iPhone Users  

The full infographic is available after the jump. The History Of Microsoft [Infographic] via kwout The History Of Microsoft [Infographic]

Ars Technica published some interesting statistics. There is more users with Windows 7 than Vista (respectively 20.87 % and 12.11 of total Windows users). 20% of users now on Windows 7 via kwout One other surprising statistic, is the fact that there are more users with IE8 than IE 7 (Respectively 33.02% and 8.76%) 20% [...]

According the About page the service convert the image to the Deep Zoom format (part of Silverlight technology). And afterwards, it is possible to explore the whole image in a convenient way. This may be true on Windows but on Linux it’s still a pain. Zoom.it via kwout

Parody Video on Life at Microsoft

I found this funny video that shows how people think life is at Microsoft. I like the end: "you don’t need tech support". Life At Microsoft – The Truth Revealed Life At Microsoft – The Truth Revealed | Tina Wood | Channel 10

Alternatives to Microsoft Office

CNET published a very interesting review of all the available alternatives products (either free or paid) to Microsoft Office. The product reviewed are: Microsoft Office 2007 Corel WordPerfect X3 Sun StarOffice 8 OpenOffice 2 iWork ’08 IBM Lotus Symphony ThinkFree Office 3 Google Docs & Spreadsheets Zoho Office The table available here summarize the CNET [...]

Today, I wanted to deactivate Dr Watson on my PC (Windows XP-SP2) and it tooks me some time to find the relevant information to do that. The interesting thing is that, I found some very useful information about the debugger: Description of the Dr. Watson for Windows (Drwtsn32.exe) Tool: This article describes the Dr. Watson [...]

How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot “hangs” and “crashes” : Microsoft Technet document describing how to use ADPlus Application debugging in a production environment : Pdf book downloadable from Microsoft Production Debugging for .NET Framework Applications:  Pdf book  more dedicated to .Net  debuggging

Engadget has a small review, and some photo of Microsoft Zune here.