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Have you ever noticed the Power Button (On/Off Switch) in your computers, and electronic devices?

You would find below symbol which are normally known as Power Button (On/Off Switch). Technically, this symbol was used to denote Standby and not for Power. This was wrongly used by all leading manufacturers.

In order to resolve this ambiguity, IEEE made some corrections to the symbols and introduced a new symbol called Crescent in 2004.

According to IEEE,

Bonus: Microsoft still using the old Power Symbol for shut-down in Windows 7. FAIL

Here is an amazing video, that show cases the hidden talent of Bill Gates.

Apple’s growth in the recent past is enormous. Look at the infographic below to understand real winner?

Who is actually winning? What is your conclusion?

Source : itok

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Microsoft Learning is an official portal which offers e-learing and training to advance the career through certifications. Recently they have released a free ebook on “First Look Microsoft Office 2010″.

This book has a detailed explanations about the new features of MS Office 2010 and tips and tricks.

Microsoft offers this e-book free for a limited time. So hurry up and save the e-book before they widhdraw the offer.

Download e-book First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 (PDF file, 10.5 MB)

Download e-book First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 (XPS file, 27.9 MB)

Bill Gates is joined Twitter yesterday, 19 Jan 2010. 

All Microsoft fans, you can now follow Bill Gates in twitter @billgates.

He had also got the “Verified Account” stamp on his profile which confirmed that he is the man himself.

First tweet from Bill Gates is,

"Hello World." Hard at work on my foundation letter – publishing on 1/25.

Below is Bill Gates’ Twitter stats, at the time of posting this article.

143,425 followers,

listed in 4,396 lists and

following 40 tweeple.

Another interesting fact is that, Bill Gates fist followed @ashleytisdale even before following @microsoft