Microsoft loves boxes, but it now prefers straight ones instead of the wavy boxes it used in the old Microsoft logo to brand its products with.
This week, Microsoft unveiled a new Microsoft logo foregoing the wavy four-member colorful window it used in the past.
What happened to the window, however, is that it got a straightening out as the four boxes are now squares with the same color scheme as before.
Take a look at it below:

The new logo came out first in an August 23 blog post on The …

As the overall Windows notebook market is having trouble, Ultrabooks are revealed to be driving sales in the over-$700 category of notebooks, new data from a research firm reveals.
According to the NPD Group in a new report, sales of Ultrabooks has captured nearly 11 percent of all $700+ Windows notebooks sales in the US for the first five months of the year.
In the bigger picture, however, Windows notebook PC sales declined 17 percent. This would have been bigger a decline had Ultrabooks not …

PointGrab Comes With Surprises For Windows 8 Users. (Image via LaptopMag)

In case you do not know who Pointgrab is, it’s enough to keep in mind that many manufacturers of recent devices, like notebooks, all-in-one systems, Smart TVs or tablets, are using software solutions from them.
Designed as a platform for reading gestures that uses a classic webcam, Pointgrab will be available as software solution compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8. To better understand the magnitude of this trend …

Angry Birds on Windows Phone: Nokia and Microsoft Bring Exclusive Titles on Windows Phone / image via AngryBirdsOnline.com

In a period when any statistics generator confirms Nokia’s pitiful condition, while drawing attention to the lack of popularity faced by Microsoft with its Windows Phone, the two companies seem to want to change their destiny.
Nokia and Microsoft have won a few exclusive partners to develop several apps for Windows Phone only, more precisely for Nokia Lumia handsets …

A top security firm has revealed that one of every five Mac computers have Windows malware on their system.
The report comes from Sophos which said in a post on its Naked Security site that “A 100,000 strong snapshot of the millions of Mac computers which have recently downloaded Sophos’s free Mac anti-virus software, revealed that 20% of Mac computers were carrying one or more instances of Windows malware.”
Nonetheless, this is not to say that the Mac computers are infected with …

Finally the Mainstream Windows Vista 7 Support End Date has arrived (Image via WinBeta)

Microsoft beginning today is suspending the mainstream support period for operating system Windows Vista, during which all the users received free product updates, says the information published on the company website.
Just yesterday the company also stopped the support for Office 2007.
Form now onwards users of these products will be able to get only free updates that address serious issues related to …

Books from iBooks Remain Without Copy Protection / image via iBooks

Although if there are 3 years since Apple stopped protecting the music it sells through iTunes, the applications, the movies and especially the books in iBooks have continued to be protected against copy. If in what concerns application protection in AppStore it has been made something to bypass it, and the movies have never presented problems, the only ones which remained safe were the iBooks books, but this thing was …

Zune and Windows Live Out from Windows 8 Consumer Preview / image via Flickr

Although there are only a few days left until the launch of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, few lucky people have already managed to get their hands on that version of Windows in order to make an opinion related to changes.
As an overview, in the Consumer Preview version of Microsoft’s operating system we will not see Windows Live and Zune, both disappearing as brands. Going through a rebranding process, many …

OnLive, better known for its gaming services, has launched a new service that allows you to have access to a virtualized Windows 7 machine, on your iPad.
The new service, dubbed OnLive Desktop Plus will give users access to most of the popular Windows 7 applications such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, Adobe Reader, and Internet Explorer (including Adobe Flash support) delivered on an iPad.
The new product will be billed at $5 per month and will allow users to get access to a …

Microsoft: Windows 8 Consumer Preview Released in February 29 / image via MaximumPC

Microsoft has officially announced the date and place of the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The event will take place on February 29 at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
The critics of the new operating system do not seem pleased by the fact that Microsoft has decided to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview during an event dedicated to mobile gadgets, writes MaximumPC.
Interestingly, the …