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Hello there Mango fans, is YouTube just a little too lowbrow for you? Well, fret not, Vimeo is here to stream all the HD student shorts your little Microsoft-loving heart desires.

(Reuters) - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.

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We went to see The Artist last night. I didn’t want to go; if God wanted silent movies he wouldn’t have invented sound, etc. And black and white to boot. Making a black and white 3D movie, maybe. But inexorably the Oscars loom, and the last thing I want is to endure the withering gaze of my long-suffering wife when it wins Best Picture without us having seen it.

Posted on Windows 7 News & TipsValentines day is fast approaching, so here are some new Windows 7 themes that you can download an use on your desktop. These are Roses, and they are some of the most wonderful looking pictures ever.

Queen of the Flowers

There's some more corporate reshuffling going on in the Windows Phone universe this week, now that Brandon Watson has confirmed his departure from Microsoft. Watson, who served as head of the WP Developer Experience, announced the news on his Twitter page Friday, and later told ZDNet that he's heading to Amazon , where he'll be Director of the Kindle Cross Platform team.

Posted on Windows 7 News & TipsA few blogs ago, I posted about Microsoft’s 10th anniversary with their Trustworthy Computing. Now the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) format is clear. For Microsoft, whose challenge is to lead the software community in ways to combat cybercrime, the SDL is their way of introducing a rational plan to meet that goal.

I think we can all agree to the fact that Microsoft has rushed its new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform to the market in the last quarter of 2010. The initial iteration was lacking some basic features -- not only present on competing platforms but imperative to the user experience -- some of which were later addressed by the NoDo and then the Mango update.

Posted on Windows 7 News & TipsMicrosoft are constantly working on making new themes for Windows 7, as a result there’s a great selection of themes for Windows 7 available (check out our extensive gallery here). This latest theme from them is entitled “Animal Affection” and is one of the cutest themes I’ve ever seen.
This is really a perfect theme for all you animal lovers out there, you’ll be constantly staring at these awe inspiring wallpapers every day. Even reading Microsoft’s description of the theme is enough to set any animal lovers heart racing.

Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo.  Follow him @ashkan.