Mobile And Computer

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A few years back, personal computer played vital role in digital life. But, now the personal computer are used as a normal device along with other devices.

Due to this, A very popular Japanese organisation, Sony, met drastic fall in sells of VAIO computers.

So, Sony has decided to stop manufacturing the product further as well as decided to sell its factory to others. As expected, Japan Industrial Partners will buy Sony's PC unit and set up a separate company to take over operation.

Similarly, IBM stopped its personal computer production from 2004. HP also announced the same that surprised everyone. Later, HP changed its decision. But, Sony decision is expected by everyone. Because, mobile has taken the importance from computers.

Here after, Sony is going to involve in Mobiles, Tablets and Televisions only. Sony expects to transfer around 250 to 300 employees from its PC division to the new business. The deal also means new VAIO models will no longer be available outside of Japan.

Currently, Google is offering 1 GB per second to its customer through 'Fiber' service in Kansas city area. Google is working on to offer 10 times faster than what it delivers to its customer now. If this comes to real, a drastic change will happen in internet usage.

Patrick Pichette, chief financial officer of the tech giant, said it could take as long as 10 years to create the technology, but Google hopes to deliver it as early as three years from now. Along with Google some more companies joint to make it deliver as soon as possible.

Last year, Britain scientists proved that data can be transferred through light. They named this technology as 'Lifi'.

A famous american company successfully completed its 10GB data transfer per second. By using this technology it transferred a 2.3 GB movie within 4 seconds.

We can expect this technology by Google, because it is working on it very closely.

Microsoft's new Office for iPad makes a favourable first impression and it has much in common with the version of Office you are familiar with on a PC or Mac. But if you think Microsoft has designed a near clone of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Apple's popular tablet think again. Here are five quick takeaways to keep in mind:

1. It's three separate apps.

Office for the iPad isn't like Office Mobile for the iPhone, Android or Microsoft's own Windows Phone. You must download Word, Excel and PowerPoint separately, assuming you want each app. The good news is the apps are free, though to get the full benefits of editing and creating stuff from scratch you must subscribe to Microsoft's Office 365, currently $99.99 a year for use on up to 5 PCs and/or Macs and up to 5 tablets.

2. What you cannot do. 

For starters, you cannot print, not directly from any of the Office iPad apps anyway. If you have to print a document, you can always email it to yourself and print from another machine, not necessarily the most productive or ideal use of your time. You cannot insert a video into PowerPoint either. Of course there's no reason Microsoft couldn't add such features in the future; I'd certainly expect them to do so.

3. Get cozy with OneDrive.

The online storage locker formerly known as SkyDrive is your cloud destination for the documents, spreadsheets and presentations you saved through Office for the iPad. Other cloud destinations (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box) are not currently an option.

4. Use touch.

The large and finger friendly area where you'll find the "ribbon" interface common to each Office app only shows appropriate commands when you need them (e.g, chart or picture commands when you select a chart or picture) as on the computer versions of Office. But you can easily manipulate these commands via touch. Touch-friendly "handles" also make it simple to resize and rotate objects.

5. Use voice.

Here's where Office leans on Apple's iOS operating system. You can dictate a document in Word, for example. Merely tap the Microsoft icon on the keyboard that pops up inside Word and start gabbing.

Since Microsoft announced support for windows XP files will  no longer be available (from April 8), many windows XP users has become windows 7 customers now.

The differences between the two operating systems can be found in their process. If we understands this difference, the transition does not give any problem.

Windows 7 is designed to have variations from other operating systems.In particular, we can find so many differences when compared to windows XP which was in market for the last 13 years. Windows 7 gives additional security, activity along with new technology, etc.

Let us see some features here...


The task bar in windows 7 is totally different from windows XP.  We got 'Quick launch' area from windows XP onwards. We can open the programs by clicking on the icon that is placed on 'Quick launch' bar and the opened programs shown in taskbar.

But in windows 7, both features have been mixed. The icons in the taskbar is shortcuts to the programs and indicates the opened programs. The icons which has border, indicates opened programs. The icons which doesn't have border, indicates unopened programs. When you click on the icons, it will show opened applications if already opened by you earlier. Otherwise, it will open the program as new.  When you open a program, the corresponding icon will be shown in taskbar. When you close the program, the corresponding icon also will be hidden.

Unlike this, if you wanna place the icon always on the taskbar, choose 'Pin this program to taskbar' from the menu that you can get by right clicking on the icon when it is opened. If you do this, the icon will be shown on your taskbar always whether it is opened or not. We can arrange the icons in a order which we want.

Right clicking on an icon from the taskbar will pop up a menu is called 'Jump list'. Generally, Jump list will have details about associated program and some general settings for the program.

For example,
'MS Word' jump list will have recently opened word document list. We can limit the number of documents to be shown by adjust the settings from taskbar jump list properties.

2. Start Menu:
Windows 7 start menu differs from windows XP start menu. However it is not difficult to bring it. When you press 'Start button' or 'Windows Key', you can see a list of frequently used programs. This menu updates by itself and will give you the frequently used program shortcuts.

 To show our shortcuts also in the start menu, select 'Pin this program to Start menu' from a menu that will popup when you right click on program shortcut.

Clicking on 'All programs' will give you all the installed programs list. We can search particular programs or files by typing the name in the provided text box.




3. User Account Control (UAC):
The User Access Control introduced in windows Vista. It has been updated in windows 7.  Using this tool, can provide specific permission to the user of computer.

For example , when installing programs on your computer, UAC prompt asking permission from you to the user, after which it was provided, the program will be allowed to install. It provides additional protection to our computer.

4. Windows Explorer:
Windows 7 provides different appearance to windows explorer. However,the functionality is the same as the previous Windows operating systems. The toolbar 'File/Edit/View' is hidden. Though, we can see the hided menu by pressing 'Alt+R'. 

Microsoft is offering to upgrade from windows 8 to windows 8.1 at free of charge. However, the currently available figures, there are many more Windows 8 system remain unchanged. The reasons can be found here.

We can't say it as Microsoft failure. Windows 8 was released on October 7 last year. In coming months, Windows 8.1 update 1 is going to release as update of Windows 8.

As of now, 6.83% are using Windows 8. 4.3% are using Windows 8.1.  We cannot expect Windows 8 will be useless, with the launch of Windows 8.1. It is surprising that Windows 8.1 users are less in number than Windows 8 users. Because Windows 8 is found with a lot of incorrect codes, still the customers has not changed to new.

Windows Store - Windows Update

Before this release, the windows is happened through 'Windows Update'. But the update is happening through Windows Store in windows 8.1. Earlier, system updates automatically, when it is connected with internet.

However, Windows 8.1 is not given in this way. it is given as a part of Windows store. Need to download it separately and install it as other programs.


Need Microsoft Account

Windows 8 prompts ask you to install through local user account or Microsoft account. Most of the users will use local user account to get it installed. But, windows 8.1 insists user to go through Microsoft account to get Windows 8.1 update files.