Last week, many screen shots of Windows 7 M3 build 6780 were leaked, making Microsoft team and its tester unhappy. If this screen shots are to be believed, most of the system apps of Windows 7 will implement interface similar to Microsoft Office 2007. Also according to My Document in Win 7 is renamed as Libraries. Win 7 will include two versions of media player, one of which is light version to enable easy video play on “click a video file” action.

A new study recently reviewed that 35 percent of the software installed in 2006 on personal computers worldwide was obtained illegally amounting to nearly US$ 40 billion in global losses due to software piracy. However, progress has been noticed in a number of emerging markets, most notably in china, where the piracy rate dropped ten percentage points in three years, and in Russia , where piracy fell seven percentage points in three years.
These are among the findings of the fourth annual global PC software piracy study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the commercial software industry. the study was conducted independently by IDC, the information technology (IT) industry’s leading global market research and forecasting firm.

A giant taking over another giant !!!!!

Microsoft’s bids to buy yahoo for a whopping $44.6 billion. By this Microsoft and yahoo will compete with their common rivals “GOOGLE”. Google captures almost 56% of the US market leaving Microsoft and yahoo with 44%. If this deals cracks then it is expected that both the companies will take over Google’s search engine market. Microsoft recently bought the Calista technologies, a company owned by a Indian techie.

Do you know that around 1% of all Google ads go through the smart “I’m feeling lucky’ button which takes users directly to the first link of the search. Hence making it impossible for Google to show the ads for that particular search.

For the first time, BSNL customers in Andhra Pradesh (in India) can view the TV on their cellphones. BSNL offers them around dozens of channels to choose from. With the launch of mobile TV, BSNL have kept themselves abreast of the latest development around the globe.

BSNL introduced this service in Hyderabad (for the first time in South India) on tuesday (early this week) and have called it, “TV on Mobile” service. At present BSNL have three subscription plans, i.e Rs. 10 for each channel per day, and again a single channel per month cost you Rs. 50, and if you go for all 12 channels for entire month it costs you just Rs. 150. Also as an introductory offer BSNL will provide the service for free for first month. Apart from news channel, it also have regional and entertainment channels.