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Microsoft has proved itself to be the world’s largest software maker and now it has made its cloud-based operating system officially available for the Indian users.

You can get the computer power on Windows Azure, a web-based operating system hosted in the Microsoft’s data centers for $0.12 on an hourly basis whereas the storage on Azure costs around $0.15 per GB per month.

The web edition of its database service SQL Azure comes for $10 per month for up to 1 GB and its business edition of its database service is tagged at about $100 per month for up to 10 GB of database on monthly basis.

“All of our popular products are already cloud-ready, and we have a clear future roadmap to provide anytime, anywhere access across diverse devices spanning computer, mobile and Internet.”, said Rajan Anandan, managing director, Microsoft India.

Companies like Infosys, HCL Technologies, Persistent Software, Wings Info, Cerebrate and CDC Software are still designing commercial applications and solutions on Windows Azure platform.

Microsoft  the largest software company and HP  the largest firm for technology in world both made a foundation on next generation infrastructure by announcing that they going to tie-up with one another.

Microsoft and HP planned to invest $250m with three years agreement for integrated IT stakes project. Both companies expect that this project will deliver a deeply integrated IT stakes for marketing, service efforts, for small business applications, joint engineering and so on. HP-Microsoft tie-up for integrated technology stake will be very much beneficial for all size businesses especially for IT customers.

Microsoft-HP tie-up project integrate various technologies, management tools and virtualization. They also planned to deliver pre-integrated solutions as well. According to Microsoft and HP, this project will be very much useful to all type of customers as it spread IT infrastructure much faster at very lowest cost.

Microsoft and HP operations:

Both companies joined together by Windows Azure platform in which both of them offer their services. For instance, Microsoft pursues its investment in HP hardware to communicate Windows Azure.

“This agreement, which spans hardware, software and services, will enable business customers to optimize performance with push-button simplicity at the lowest possible total cost of ownership. Our extended partnership will transform the way large enterprises deliver services to their customers, and help smaller organizations adopt IT to grow their businesses. Microsoft and HP are betting on each other so our customers don’t have to gamble on IT” – these are the statements of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft-HP companies promise that their tie-up with one another will bring new solutions to all size businesses by simplifying technology environments and these new solutions will come to existence as soon as possible and that will last for next consecutive three years.

Microsoft- HP tie-up project is designed productions that will definitely make the deal pretty interesting. In the field of engineering and marketing this agreement of Microsoft-HP tie-up will play a significant role hopefully.

This week one could see the ardent battle between such well-known companies as Microsoft and Goolge. The issue of the battle was the lunched innovations that will be used in 2010 or 2011.

As it was promised by Google, the users are able to utilize real-time search results. Due to such option users are able to get results only a few seconds old when they query a topic.

Also Google introduced Google Goggle this week. It is considered to be a photo-based search.

As for Microsoft, its Bing launched the beta of the latest version of Bing Maps last week.

According to Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, the search is in the process of changing and it will never stop to do that. People that search for some information will get the same results, but the service itself will be more individualized and there will be more images, video, tweets and posts.

Many analysts consider that because Microsoft and Google compete in order to get a big amount of market share for that reason innovation is likely to appear very often.

“Microsoft’s willingness to invest in search and not just let Google walk away with it is driving a new level of competition,” said Hadley Reynolds, an analyst with IDC. He also said the one should wait the continuation of changes for the next six to nine months.

Due to the Windows Server team one can know more about the future plans of Microsoft Windows.

There was held the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week. where it became known that the main release update to Windows Server would be around 2012.

Also there was an interview with Sinofsky during which the journalist was try to get more information about Windows 8. Sinofsky only made a stone-face and said: “I didn’t say any of the words–Windows 8–those were all your words.”

The 2012 year will concur with Windows Server’s plans, i.e. having a minor release every two years and as for a major release, it will be every four years. This year Microsoft introduced Windows Server 2008 R2 which was considered to be a minor update and s Windows 7 launched by the desktop team was the major release.

For the last years Microsoft has a tendency to lunch its desktop and server releases rather close, but one should note that the desktop OS was really significant if compare it with its server analogue.

Microsoft is planning to enlarge its sales of such products as smartphones in the Indian market after its netbooks – the bridge between mobiles and laptops – found the market in India.

According to Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft Corporate Vice President (OEM Division), a lot of funds were invested in the mobile market and the company would continue to do that as there were lots of competitors in this sphere.

It was estimated that smartphones that are considered to be high-powered mobiles that has computer facilities and big screens make up 10 per cent of the whole cellphone market in India.

The statistics says that about 130 million devices will be sold during 2009-2010, among which six million will be smartphones. From six million only 2.5 lakh phones operate with Microsoft’s operating system.

According to Guggenheimer, Microsoft has partnership with such mobile handset producers as Sony Ericsson, HTC, LG and Samsung except Nokia that run Symbian operating system.

Despite the fact that smartphones based on Microsoft Windows, appeared only for the past few years, the company competes with Nokia that uses Symbian OS and Blackberry

The competition became much harder when Apple mobiles and Google’s OS, Android and mailing device Blackberry were introduced in the market.

Being technically enhanced, Windows 7 is much more successful than its forerunners, Vista and Windows XP.

In case you have been thinking of purchasing a new computer now with Windows 7 on the market it is the right time to do it.

While Vista was seen as Microsoft’s absolute failure, Windows 7 is expected to do just fine as it is compatible with practically all the existing netbooks, and moreover with older PCs.

Win 7 incorporates a new enhanced interface and some new features aimed at facilitating files sharing.

Windows 7 is fairly more stable and reliable than Vista, its predecessor. It has a greater download speed as well, compared to Vista that demands hours to be installed. As far as minimum hardware requirements are concerned, are very close for both OS.

Another important thing about Windows 7 is that it has a higher level of security. It is not only safer than Windows XP but it is far better than Vista, too.

While Windows XP is acknowledged to be the most widely spread OS, its users can benefit from Win 7. Already Vista had some new features like fast search of the hard drive. But Win 7 has to offer a great deal more.

Being greatly improved and more user-friendly Windows 7 is doomed to success.

Last week was marked by the launch of Windows 7. It means that a whole number of new gadgets to be released that will incorporate it. One of the examples is an absolutely new Samsung N140.

The new netbook has 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor with 1GB DDR2 RAM. The company is particularly proud of the fact that it has 250GB HDD for storage. It has a built-in 6 cell battery that can last for 11 hours. As the official representatives of the company say, this is the first netbook to have a 250 GB Hard Disc Drive.

Samsung N140 is extra slim and has 10.1″ LED Backlit display. It also produces high quality sound and SRS effects that produce High Definition 3D sound. Its weight is just 1.27 kg. Due to its compact size you can bring it with you anywhere you go.

Among other features the netbook has three USB 2.0 ports (one chargable), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, 3-in-1 memory card reader, and a spill proof keyboard.

The price of the new device is Rs. 24,990.

The Windows 7 Home Premium pack comes for Rs 6,799 and users can get the Aero Glass along with advanced windows navigation.

There is also improved media format support, media streaming, improved windows Media Centre, multi-touch as well as superior handwriting recognition technology.

Windows 7 Professional comes for Rs 11,199 and gives network management and domain join features.

There is also superior data protection, enhanced file encryption system and Location Aware Printing option, with printing intuitive technology.

Windows 7 Ultimate (worldwide) comes for Rs 11,799 and it is the higest feature available for the users of windows 7. It provides BitLocker feature for advanced data protection.

This is on internal and external data drives. User can also use DirectAccess that gives flexible and seamless connectivity for the Windows Server 2008 R2, appropriate for corporate networks.

New Delhi: Microsoft Corp has launched its Windows 7 operating system in the Indian market. It is much hyped for its faster performance and cool new features but some critics are skeptical about it too.

Windows Vista got rave review before its release too but it failed miserably. And now Windows 7 has got similar response after its beta release.

Harry McCracken, who was the Editor-in-Chief of PC World informed “I was the editor of PC World at the time that review was done and yes, I wish in retrospect we’d held to somewhat a higher standard”.

PC World had reported “All in all, Windows Vista is a great leap forward for the operating system.”

Preston Gralla, who gave the earlier comment in PC World added “I certainly have learned from the Vista experience to try as hard as I possibly can to try to get the kind of hardware people are using to review it on..

Similarly, Steve Wildstrom Businessweek, had written “Vista is a big step forward; in time, you’ll want it.” But now he said “If I could go back and do it over, I would be
more negative”.

Microsoft releases Windows 7 that surpasses its predecessor Windows Vista as a whole row of changes were done to the operating system.

The advantages of a new version can be felt right away beginning with installation. Windows 7 requires much less space and resource-intensive. It means that the installation is going to be really fast.

The software that is compatible with Vista in most cases runs with Windows 7 too. Free upgrades can be got from the web.

Windows Easy Transfer is designed to facilitate the transferring of your files to your new Windows 7 computer.

Talking about its look and sound, these characteristics are rather similar to Vista. However, what is peculiar to Windows 7 is that all desktop gadgets can be changed in place just the way you wish, wherever you put them.

Another positive feature about it is that when you have several windows open you can minimize them just by giving your mouse a shake.

Some of the options can be known to Apple fans and work in different Mac OS.

With the new Windows 7 you have a right to choose what files to be shared on a network and what should be kept private.

Another great feature is that it is possible to play a multimedia file to other computers that are in the network.

Windows 7 also has a better search function compared to its forerunner. The search results appear grouped in sub-lists by type. Users are able to make “libraries” of certain types of files.