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Microsoft in Africa : Timeline

Microsoft first opened its office in South Africa in 1992. Since then its been quite an eventful journey for Microsoft in Africa.

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Bing Twitter Maps from Microsoft FuseLabs

People use Twitter to make quick status updates. By seeing where those people are in real-time, the experience brings an event or place to life right there on the Bing map in front of you. You can zoom into street [...]

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Cool animation: Animator vs. Animation

If you liked the vintage animation The War Of The Icons, you definitely want to check out these cool animations from Alan Becker at DeviantArt: Animator vs. Animation I & II.

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Twitter’s Cosmos – Most Influential Twitters

The Infographic geniuses at iA have been hard at work again and moved on from their tried and trusted metro map format to something more celestial. This Web Trend Map shows the 140 most influential people on Twitter.

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Interactive map of Linux Kernel

The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most complex & prominent examples of free & open source software.

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Windows 3.0 turns 20!

Windows 3.0 turned 20 on May 22nd, 2010! It was the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and became the first  successful version of Windows & a rival to Apple Macintosh & the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front.

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Giveaway: Microsoft Office 2010 licenses

Microsoft India has provided us with 2 licenses of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Editions, which will be UPGRADABLE to Microsoft Office 2010, once it is released in June 2010.

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Comic: Facebook & the lack of privacy

Facebook has been in the news quite a bit recently and its not for the right reasons! Here is a nice comic from JoyOfTech about Facebook and its Privacy issues. Enjoy! Incidentally if you’d like to check out if your [...]

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A Guide To Fanboys & Fanboyism

You’ve heard stories about them. You may even have encountered one in the wild. Or in an Internet forum, where they commonly congregate and are notorious for their savage and often ill-thought-out verbal attacks on other fanboys and noobs. You [...]

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Unable to login at TWC Forum ?

Hi! Some TWC Forum members are reporting that they are facing a  problem about being unable to login at TWC Forum. This is happening erratically.

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TheWindowsClub completes 1 year today!

Launched on 20th April 2009, TheWindowsClub.com (TWC) completes 1 year today! TWC was launched  2 years after WinVistaClub.com was launched, and I must say that it  has been an interesting and an eventful year!

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Microsoft’s Guide to a Healthy Computing

This Healthy Computing Guide from Microsoft is designed to help you be more comfortable and productive while using your computer. It may also help you reduce your risk of experiencing painful and disabling injuries or disorders described in the following [...]