Much awaited and rumored cloud storage service from Google i.e. Google Drive is finally here. Google drive comes with 5 GB of free storage and features like abiltiy to access your files from all devices, on the web and the usual Google Docs collaboration features. At the moment though Google Drive rolling out slowly and may not be enabled on your Google Account. If you try accessing Google Drive at drive.google.com, you will get a message that Google Drive is not yet enabled for your account.
Microsoft, its products like Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP
The posts below discusses about Microsoft and its products like Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP, windows Phone etc. It covers news, tips, tricks and everything else which is associated with Microsoft.
Most Windows user remember Skydrive as a forgotten service offered by Microsoft which still offers a whopping 25 GB of cloud storage space for free. I used the term “forgottten service” for skydrive for the reason that it lacked almost every feature that you can thought of, in a good cloud storage provider like Dropbox or Sugrasync. The major reason was the lack of good syncing capability across different devices or even different PCs.
One of the small issues that I faced with Windows 7 is the Auto Sleep mode, which puts your system or PC into sleep or hibernation automatically if you don’t use it for some time. Even though this sleep mode is good for most people, its a problem if you are downloading a big file and you want your PC to stay ON instead of Going to sleep. I wrote a small post talking about how to disable Auto sleep mode in Windows 7.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview edition is finally out and is being considered as a major bet by Microsoft as a single operating system both for Desktop and mobile devices in terms of major departure from conventional design of a Desktop operating system. For most first time users of Windows 8, the feel that comes after using it is that it is more dedicated to touch devices instead of normal desktops with mouse and Keyboard.
Few months back, we covered the launch of Windows 8 Developer Preview edition and how to install Windows 8 on your system. We also covered some of its top features and what we should look forward to. Microsoft has now released Windows 8 Consumer preview edition and is available to everyone for download now.
Unlike Developer Preview edition, this consumer preview edition needs a Product key for activation. The product key is provided by Microsoft on the Downloads page of Windows 8.
We have been hearing some good things about WindowsPhone for last few weeks in fact months. With the work progressing on with the next version of Microsoft Operating System i.e. Windows8, WindowsPhone too is making some decent inroads into the mobile devices segment. With the release of some new WindowsPhone models in the market and with increase in the number of apps that are available in the Windows store, Microsoft do seem to have made some decent progress.
If you are a Android Phone user or even a iPhone user, then you can use your browser to run a demo of WindowsPhone without installing anything. Windows Phone Twitter account made a tweet informing us about this demo. You just need to open a URL in your Android or iPhone browser to have this demo.
Just go to aka.ms/wpdemo and the demo will load almost instantly on your Phone. Just tap it and wow, it will change your phone into a Windows Phone. Do remember that it is just a demo and hence everything that you see in demo is not related at all to your Phone data. You can just tap anything, swipe the screen, go through different apps and do almost everything thats possible on Windows Phone. The link will not work from your PC or even any other Phone browser.
Honestly, I did enjoyed the demo and its great compared to previous version of Windows for Phones. Many features are better than Android or iPhone but still we need to test it on original Windows Phone to make proper inclination or views about it. So, if you have a android Phone or iPhone, you must try this demo.
Thanks Ashwin for the tip.