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In an interview to the San Francisco Chronicle, Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, cleared that the company has no plans for rolling out a ZunePhone anytime in near future.

The interview takes place on the eve of Apple’s WWDC, which anticipates the unveiling of a new iPhone.

Bach stressed that Windows mobile has a very nice position to fit in the consumer market and Microsoft dosen’t have any plans to fiddle with it. He said

“We don’t make phones ourselves. We don’t have any plans to make phones ourselves. Our focus is on the belief that a phone is a very personal thing. Different people want different types of phones. We think that is going to continue, and we think Windows Mobile is in a great position to service all those different opportunities.”

Bach also pointed out how Microsoft aims at the market. He told

“There is more opportunity for services on top of the(those) phones. There is more opportunity for a richer experience. It’s not just about the phone. It’s about browsing. It’s about music. It’s about video. It’s about e-mails, text messaging and photos.”

Well, Microsoft may have its say, but as of now iPhone is rocking, who know how the future would look like? Will this be an yet another Apple-Microsoft Desktop saga?? or Would Apple be able to keep its hold over the market??

Windows Vista basically replaces the popular hibernate feature with a new one called ‘Sleep‘, which is a combination of both Hibernation and Stand-By. In any case if you use a computer that is not always connected to power like a Laptop, you do need hibernation features. Or maybe your scenario doesn’t needs hibernation. So why waste the hard-disk space that the hiber.sys takes on your system? In any case you need a method to easily enable/disable hibernation feature on your machine.

As usual, XpressZine would always give/suggest you the best and easiest option to do any task.

So open up your command prompt by typing ‘cmd‘ in the ‘Run‘ window. Once the ‘Command Prompt‘ appears type the below code to finish the task you want to achieve.

To Enable Hibernation:

Type ‘powercfg -h on‘ (without quotes)

To Disable Hibernation:

Type ‘powercfg -h off‘ (without quotes)

NOTE: You need to have administrator access to complete this function.

NOTE: A confirmation may not be given. If no error is displayed then it would mean that the command executed successfully.

One of the coolest thing about Microsoft is they being both Designer and Developer friendly(or atleast they are trying to be !!!)

Microsoft has recently announced the next MIX and PDC events to be organised in 2008.

While MIX basically targets designers and web-developers, PDC is for (desktop)developers. For those who wanna attend the MIX session, hurry up, Microsoft is giving an early registration concession of 200$ whcih is little less than 20% of the total(1295$) fees. On the other hand, nothing much has been said about PDC, apart from it being held in Los Angeles, CA during 27th-30th Oct 2008. BTW, MIX would be conducted during March 5-7 2008 in Las Vegas, NV.

I’m really excited to hear the keynote and to know the latest offerings from Microsoft Reasearch, are you ???