Microsoft Product line launching roadmap

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.

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

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.

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.