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Robert is a lover of technology and a strong advocate of Open Source Software and the Free Software Foundation. He is also a devoted GNU/Linux user.
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Turn Your Windows Desktop Into A Windows 7 Phone

An extremely interesting post on LifeHacker has revealed Omnimo, a “metro/zune UI inspired, highly functional and customizable complete rainmeter desktop skin suite, the name is derived from the word WinMo [...]

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What we know as Microsoft Office is quickly coming to an end. As more and more applications hit the cloud and become universally available, compatible, and always-on, the client side [...]

Although this is mainly a Windows based site, I thought that some of our readers might be interested in Apple’s recent patent violation as Apple is Microsoft’s main competition. Elan [...]

According to one of today’s posts on Softpedia, Windows 7′s first service pack may bring some more performance to the table as Softpedia cites a “third-party source.” Although Microsoft has [...]

At the annual Pwn2Own contest, IE8 was hacked in less than two minutes on a fully-patched 64-bit Windows 7 installation by Peter Vreugdenhil who bypassed ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) [...]

After nothing but screenshots for quite some time when it comes to Windows Live Essentials Wave 4, a build has finally been leaked (build number 15.2.2585.0122); however, it’s an old [...]

Those users running the 32-bit version of Windows XP with SP2 or Vista RTM may want to consider an upgrade to Windows 7 or a newer service pack as Microsoft’s [...]

Microsoft’s Office 2010 RC has been leaked to various torrent sites (brings back memories of the constant postings of new Windows 7 leaks) after being circulated via Microsoft Connect on [...]

In a recent blog post by Stephen Horlander, a new interface for Firefox 4.0 was shown in two concept videos that match the Ribbon style present in Windows 7. The [...]

In August, Microsoft began an investigation into IIS (Internet Information Services) after claims of a vulnerability involving the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in IIS version 6. At the time, the [...]

The Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7 is a small application designed to help the user switch between any power plans available on the PC, including custom plans and all [...]

With the advent of Windows 7, many users have been scrambling to compare the OS to Apple’s leading product, OS X Snow Leopard. However, in the midst of the competition [...]