The Windows team has finally confirmed the release date for Windows 7 RTM, it will be made available to partners and others starting August 6th 2009.

There has been lot of discussion about new operating systems cropping up to beat the legacy of Microsoft based operating systems, however much they try they have not been able to penetrate the market and may not be able to do in the future.

Microsoft who is one of the biggest software manufacturers in the world, do not have a retail presence yet, does that surprise you? Well, it would not , however they have build their empire mainly on online and third party sales till date.

Quite sometime back we had told you how you can register for the technical preview of Office 2010 which will be made available to users in next few days (July 13th according to rumored dates).

Microsoft’s marketing campaigns sometimes do not make any sense at all, however here is another campaign they have undertaken to promote IE8, with this competition they aim to grow their market share in the browser wars.

Office 2010 has been making a lot of news these days, with leaked screenshots revealing a new interface and some enhanced features in Office 2010. However users will not be able to get their hands on Office 2010 easily, if you are one of the people eagerly waiting for this version of Office, you can [...]

In a startling revelation that took the Microsoft employees by surprise, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft would be making the source code of all Operating systems they manufacture open source. This announcement was certainly not expected from a company whose engineers working on the code themselves didn’t have full access to it.

Just when we thought the browser market was crowded enough, there is some news that Microsoft is working on a new browser named Gazelle. This news highly undermines the work Microsoft has put into developing Internet Explorer 8 [IE8]. Image of a Gazelle. Image Credit More research on the topic led us to some technical [...]

Microsoft Office 2007 had several improvements with the introduction of the now famous ribboninterface, which revealed several functionalities and grouped them under similar categories.   However Microsoft Office 14 which is scheduled for released next year, adds is making news these days and there are several screenshots floating around the Internet.

Windows 7 was released last week, and Microsoft had to scale their infrastructure to take care of the unexpected traffic, they also delayed the released of the product keys that could be used to activate and use Windows 7. However the keys are not available for download and users need to follow the steps given [...]

Techie Buzz has a mix of people visiting us using browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer among others, however people using Internet Explorer are at a serious risk, because of a vulnerability being discovered in Microsoft’s default browser. The vulnerability in Internet explorer, can allow a attacker to take control of people’s [...]

In the press release that solemnized the deal between Google and Yahoo to display Google ads in Yahoo search results, there was also another announcement that Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk would have interoperability. In plain words it works out to you being able to message your friends from Google Talk through Yahoo Messenger and [...]