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HCL and Wipro offer good deals on Laptops for Diwali

Dell and HP needs to watchout, Indian IT Majors  HCL and Wipro are aggressively pushing for capturing the growing Laptop market of India. With a good brand image and cheaper prices the two Desi heavyweights are going for an aggressive marketing drive in TV and press. Wipro with its  Wipro EGO (pronounced as Y Pro EGO) series and HCL with its  HCL ME series are making people take note of their Laptops.

To their advantage both these companies are providing Good specs on a very low entry price. So if you are looking for a new laptop dont forget to checkout Wipro and HCL along with others.  Below are the links to Wipro and HCL laptop sites.

HCL  Diwali offer – http://www.hclstore.in/diwali?mode=google-text

Wipro – http://www.wipro.in/Products/notebooks/index.html

Watch the HCL ME commercial below

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Microsoft to launch Ad supported version Office 2010

The news from Redmond Giant is that they will be launching an ad supported version of its famous Office Suite to replace its Microsoft Works. The Microsoft Office 2010 starter edition will be a free software  but will run Advertisements just like any website. Till now there are quite a number of small web based softwares like Yahoo Messenger and others using this model, but Microsoft’s foray in to this model will be a significant move.

Considering that using Microsoft Office doesn’t need an active internet connection, the success of this model for a standalone desktop application will be debatable, but again Microsoft can get some new customers. Also the Starter Edition is expected to have a stripped down version of Word and Excel, satisfying the needs of most basic Home users. If you are looking for advanced features, you can an upgrade card and unlock other features of the Office 2010.

The new Office 2010 is expected to be launched during the Holiday season.

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Microsoft working on 128bit support for Windows 8 and Windows 9

Well Microsoft first launched the 64bit support with Windows XP and still most of the softwares we use on the 64bit Windows versions of XP/VISTA/Windows 7  operate in 32 bit mode . Though the 64bit technology has matured very well with latest windows versions, but there are very few softwares out in the market which uses the full power of a 64bit OS. With a few notable exceptions like Adobe Photoshop  most other softwares run in the 32 bit mode within 64bit Windows.

But Microsoft isnt worried much, they have already started working on the 128bit technology support for next generation of Windows Operating System. A profile of a Microsoft Researcher available on Linkedin brought to light Microsoft’s  Windows 8 and Windows 9 along with the 128 bit support.

Right now 64 bit Windows are only mainstream in the server market where the use of huge amount of RAM has mandated the use of 64bit windows servers.  Well the simplest reason for the 64bit OS is that any 32 bit windows cant really fully use RAM above 3.2 GB  and hence if you want to have RAM above 4GB then you need to have a 64 bit OS to get maximum use.