Recently
leaked roadmap of Microsoft’s products by Maarten Visser - CEO of Meetroo, indicates
numerous new stuffs which are in the pipeline till 2014. According to the leak,
Internet Explorer 10 is expected to launch in Q2 this year that can likely to overlap
with Windows 8 release, although the company plans to launch it in October. It
is also possible that in near future, IE10 will be launched along with the Candidate
Release of W8.
Thursday, April 12
Facebook entrances "Groups for Schools" including 25MB file-sharing facility
Today Facebook unveiled its collaborative campus tool called
"Groups for Schools". This exciting new feature lets the students of colleges
and universities to create groups for any significant entity including dorms,
classes, and student organizations but Facebook limited the access to those
having corresponding .edu addresses only!
Facebook announced that the theme of the project is
Wednesday, April 11
Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows Vista
Today,
Microsoft has announced officially the termination of mainstream support for
Windows Vista operating systems, which was announced in July 2005 and released
worldwide on 30th January, 2007. This is in compliance to the policy of the
company that the mainstream support is offered for a minimum of 5 years from
the date of the product’s general availability or for 2 years after the next
operating system has been released, whichever is longer. In this case, the 5
year time duration has been applied to mainstream support however the successor
Windows 7 was released more than 2 years ago.
Tuesday, April 10
New WiFi standard (802.11ac) coming this year
With the gigantic growth in wireless technology-
everything is going wireless nowadays. This rapid evolution is followed by
research which arose in diverse protocols and standards. Recently, PC World
reported a new standard named 802.11ac, which will fit into Wi-Fi stack as an efficient
standard to take wireless speeds to the next level. This standard is being proposed
by eminent companies - Broadcom and Qualcomm Atheros. The report adds that by
the end of this year or early 2013, this standard will swap the current 802.11n
standard as the succeeding step in prevailing wireless networking.
This standard will strictly use the
5GHz frequency band for its operations. The 2.4GHz band however offers better
range but there is a crowd of devices like microwaves and Bluetooth headsets already
on that frequency which can cause interference and related issues. But,
802.11ac is coming up with a new concept of mandatory beam-forming technology which
will enable transmitters and receivers to develop an awareness of each other so
that beams can be concentrated directly towards each device. All this is being
done to cope up with the shorter range of the 5GHz band.
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