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What makes microsoft.com website tick!?

March 20th, 2010

The Microsoft corporate Web site, Microsoft.com, is one of the largest and most heavily visited sites on the Internet, yet it maintains consistently high availability ratings. [Read More...]


Google’s own SEO Report Card

March 19th, 2010

How well is Google performing in the SEO department? Google Webmaster blog has released Google’s SEO Report Card prepared by Brandon Falls, Adi Goradia & Charlene Perez. [Read More...]

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Download Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

March 18th, 2010

Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide  first began as an effort to help teams within Google, but Google thought it’d be just as useful to webmasters that are new to the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites’ interaction with both users and search engines. [Read More...]

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Bing Webmaster Center FAQs – Crawling, Ranking, Indexing explained

March 16th, 2010

This download from Microsoft, Bing Webmaster Center FAQs will definitely interest bloggers & site admins. [Read More...]

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Windows 7 Known Issue: A white dot may appear on desktop corner

March 15th, 2010

Do you get a white dot on the top-left corner of your Windows 7 screen when an Aero theme is selected and “Enable transparency” is unchecked? [Read More...]

Read & Watch TheWindowsClub & FixWin review on Fox8LiveNews

March 11th, 2010

While I was aware on an earlier mention of FixWin on The Washington Post, I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to see that TWC & FixWin had found mention on Fox8Live News too! [Read More...]

Ultimate list of un-installers for your software programs

March 11th, 2010

While the Uninstall Programs applet of the Control Panel does a pretty good job at uninstalling programs from your Windows computer, sometimes uninstalling programs can be rather troublesome. Some may even defy this normal uninstall process altogether, while others do seem to work properly but may leave a host of data behind. [Read More...]

Share your Windows 7 story and win a Windows 7 license!

March 8th, 2010

Windows 7 has been very well accepted and most have only good things to say about it. We’d like to hear your experience with Windows 7 and what you have to say about it! So with this in mind TWC has decided to conduct a contests of sorts at TWC Forums !

UPDATE: You may also post your story in the Comments section below, which have now been enabled. [Read More...]

Keep in touch with us via The Windows Club page on Facebook.

March 5th, 2010

I finally got down to creating a page for The Windows Club on Facebook …

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Decade in Search : InfoGraphic from Razorfish

March 3rd, 2010

Razorfish has released an awesome info-graphic, charting a decade in search – it needs a great monitor to see the whole thing, but the draggable canvas effect is pretty nice. [Read More...]

The Oops!Backup Giveaway Is Back!

February 24th, 2010

Some time back we had a giveaway of Oops!Backup here, where the company had given away 25 licenses of its Oops!Backup software. The giveaway is back, by request! Altaro is pleased to offer 15 more licenses to the readers of The Windows Club! [Read More...]

Browser Choice website from Microsoft

February 23rd, 2010

BrowserChoice.eu is a new website from Microsoft designed in accordance with a competition law decision issued by the European Commission. [Read More...]

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Humor: Windows 7 was My Idea – View Parody

February 23rd, 2010

What if everyone’s ideas were actually put together? A million ideas … and what if they used every singly one of them! How would Windows 7 have been? [Read More...]

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Comic: How Microsoft came up with the name Windows Phone 7 Series

February 21st, 2010

A nice comic from JoyOfTech: How Microsoft came up with the name Windows Phone 7 Series. [Read More...]

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Have you visited our forums lately?

February 21st, 2010

Have you visited our forums lately? If not why not spend a few minutes browsing through some of our forum threads? [Read More...]

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Enjoy a game of Flashcards from Microsoft Education Labs

February 17th, 2010

Microsoft Flashcards, is the latest project from Microsoft Education Labs. Flashcards is a tool that helps you create, share, and most importantly, study more efficiently. [Read More...]

Microsoft Events and Errors Message Center

February 16th, 2010

At times you may want to search for help, support, detailed message explanations, recommended user actions and links to additional support and resources, to events & error messages  which your Windows Operating System or any other Microsoft product may throw up. [Read More...]

Test Drive Windows 7 at Microsoft’s VLabCenter.

February 14th, 2010

Before finally buying a Windows 7, if you as an end-user, would like to test drive & experience Windows 7 Professional in a fully-functioning environment, without having to install the full version, you can now do so at Microsoft. [Read More...]

Comic: Sick of Social Networks!

February 13th, 2010

Enjoy this nice comic from Joy of Tech ! [Read More...]

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Interesting posts at TWC Forum in the last few days.

February 4th, 2010

You might want to browse through some of our forum posts. Some are sure to interest you… [Read More...]