Pakistan’s Pride: Arfa Karim, World’s Youngest MCP! Arfa Karim, the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, is losing her battle with life. She has been on a ventilator since December 22, 2011 and doctors have given up on her. Arfa got an epileptic attack which damaged her heart and brain and since then, she is[.....]

Recently, Nokia turned heads towards itself with the unveiling of it’s new Lumia line of smartphones, the flagship Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. The phones use the Microsoft Windows Phone Mango platform. Now Nokia and Microsoft are again in the limelight with a new announcement: they will give away 85,000 new Lumia smartphones[.....]

We all know that Apple, Inc is the most valuable technology company nowadays. We also know that Microsoft is the second most valuable technology company. Correction: Was! International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has passed Microsoft to become the second most valuable technology company, a sign of the paradigm shift away from the personal computer.[.....]

Microsoft has launched it’s first app for the Android platform by arch-rival Google. This comes after Microsoft has launched a few apps for the iPhone by Apple. Named Tag, the app works on Android, iPhone, J2ME, Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 phones and Blackberry.

After the immense success and popularity of the latest Windows Operating System, Windows 7, Microsoft is working on bringing it’s predecessor, Windows Vista, on par with it. It has recently released DirectX 11 for Vista, so users (mostly gamers) do not have to upgrade to Windows 7 just to make use of their more[.....]

I recently received Service Pack 2 in the mail this morning, shaking my head at why I don’t use Ubuntu, but nonetheless downloading the 343.9 MB package. I don’t understand why us Windows users have to download enormous files that have a couple of bug fixes. I may as well be downloading an MMORPG[.....]

The fourth variant of the Conficker worm, Conficker.D, failed to show up on April 1 putting a stop to the speculation that April Fool’s Day would prove to be some sort of Cyber Doomsday. However, 7 days later on April 8, another variant Conficker.E has risen. The Conficker worm started updating via p2p between[.....]

A jury at the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island ruled against Microsoft Corporation in a case filed by anti-piracy software maker Uniloc, Inc against the software giant which alleged that Microsoft infringed on a patent held by them. Uniloc makes software to prevent illegal installations of software on multiple computers. Microsoft was ordered[.....]

I recently cleaned up my PC (read formatted) and made a clean re-install of everything after getting a new hard drive. After installing all the necessary softwares, I decided to give Internet Explorer 8 a try. My Windows XP came with IE 6. I downloaded the installation package from Microsoft’s website and set it[.....]