Digital Prank

Microsoft released Windows 7 RC day before yesterday and Hundreds of thousands of people have already downloaded Windows 7 Release candidate so far have given good review comments on blogs, message board posts and tweets which is lot better compared to Windows Vista. Microsoft has announced that the Windows 7 RC will be available to download at least till late June and Microsoft is also not limiting the number of product keys giving users enough time to download without any urge. Microsoft has learnt a lesson from the last fiasco which knocked the server down when Windows 7 beta was released last January for a limited period.

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Microsoft releases free copies of Windows 7, its new operating system in a bid to win the disgruntled  Windows Vista users back. Microsoft is also expected to release Windows XP Mode, a compatibility tool to help users migrating from XP to Windows 7 with this release. Australian users can download Windows 7 RC from today and can use it free for a year. Windows 7 RC incorporates all the bug fixes  and feedbacks from the Windows 7  beta which was released sometime back.

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Twitter is compromised for the second time in this year by a French Hacker under the handle Hacker Croll gaining administrative access to the Twitter’s employee account. He posted 13 screenshots of Twitter’s administrative console at a French online discussion forum. Twitter has officially confirmed the breach and it has been discovered that 10 individual accounts were viewed during this unauthorized access.

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GeoCities was found way back in 1994 has completed its 15 years run and it about to get retired soon. Yahoo bought GeoCities for more than $2.9bn in 1999 when GeoCities had more than 1.1 million users. Yahoo has disabled the new user signup with GeoCities and existing users has to find an alternative soon.

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Search Engine giant Google has now started rolling out the integration of Google Profiles into the search results and is giving the users the ability and flexibility to tailor what shows up when their name is searched for. Google has already rolled out the profile search results in U.S. at the bottom of name-query search pages. Google is now in the process of rolling out for other countries and Google Profile results have already started popping up in few countries including Germany.

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