Confirming rumors that started hitting the Internet last Sunday, Microsoft has now officially announced its plans to acquire Skype, the Internet phone software company. This morning's press release announced that the price that Microsoft is paying for Skype will indeed be $8.5 billion in cash, as previously revealed on Monday night by the AllThingsDigital web site.
According to the press release, this major move by Microsoft "will increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities." The deal will also "extend Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services." The deal is still subject to government regulatory approvals but Microsoft hopes to close the deal sometime in 2011.
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Ten Ways the World Will End

Will it be a solar flare? Or a gamma-ray burst? How the earth’s gonna end

Study as we lay out the odds.

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Cool Tricks for your PC

If you want to disturb your friend then make warning box using following given text on your friend’s laptop.

It is not harmful for  your laptop.

Step1:

Open notepad

Step2:

write following text in notepad.

X=msgbox("message",1,"title")

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There are 22 steps to improve windows XP shutdowndown speed.
After this,your window XP shutdown very fastly means you can save time.

Steps are:-

step1:-Go to Start then select Run

step2:-Type 'Regedit' and click ok

step3:-Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\

step4:-click on it.

step5:-Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'

step6:-Right click and select 'Modify'

step7:-Change the value to '1000'

step8:-Click 'OK'

step9:-Now select 'HungAppTimeout'

step10:-Right click and select 'Modify'

step11:-Change the value to '1000'

step12:-Click 'OK'
 
step13:-Now find 'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop'

step14:-Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'

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Now it is easy to format your hard disk with the help of notepad. You don’t need to go anywhere format the  hard disk, just follow the simple step and hard disk will be format. You have to write only following coding to format the hard disk.

Step1:

01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

Step2:

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This trick is for all those people who want to hide tons of data into their box. So here it is, if you have very important data in your hard drive placed in some partition which you do not want anybody to access then this trick is only for you!

Just click on on start>run type gpedit.msc, now navigate through user configuration> administrative templates > windows components> windows explorer, now double click on "Hide these specified drives in My Computer” modify it accordingly then just below you will find another option "Prevent access to drives from My Computer”, double click on this option and modify it accordingly. To make it visible again select "disable" by double clicking on the "Hid ... Read more »

If you forgot your login password then you can recover password or change the password using usb.

step1
Open User Accounts in Windows .
you can go to Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts.

Step2
Insert your USB drive and wait until it is listed under My Computer (Windows Explorer) with a proper drive letter.

Step3
To the User Accounts window and then click on the "Create a password reset disk".

Step4
When you see the Forgotten Password Wizard window take a look at the information and proceed pressing Next.

Step5
In my case, I will be selecting the USB drive "O: Removable disk". Once you have selected it properly press Next to go to the next step.

Step6
On this step you will need to enter your current password. Provide the correct password and press Next.

Step7
when process will complete,you will change passwo ... Read more »