Edunology - Saumya Aggarwal

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Well, Good news for new telecos!!! Market is still welcoming them and it is evident from the fact that MTS has launched its 100th MTS Branded Retail store in Gurgaon located at Old Railway Road in Gurgaon.


Inaugurating the 100th mono-branded store in Gurgaon, Mr. Atul Joshi, Chief Sales Officer, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited (SSTL) said, “We are delighted to announce the launch of our MTS 100th Branded Retail Store in Gurgaon. We have always strived towards enhanced customer satisfaction. With the launch of this store, our services would be more accessible to our customers in Haryana. Offering a relaxing and interactive environment for customers, this store is aimed at inspiring and educating them on the benefits of MTS services. Spread over 150 sq feet, furnished with a sales desk and a help desk, it will staff 4 to 5 customer care executives”.

Mr. Sanjay Bahl, Chief Operating Officer, Delhi NCR & Haryana, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited (SSTL) said, “Inauguration of MTS 100th Branded Retail Store in Gurgaon is our sincere endeavor to empower more and more customers to experience the benefits of our entire range of superior products, services and VAS (value-added service) offerings. This new store is aimed at addressing the service needs of MTS customers”.

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The full-release of Opera 10.5 just came out, featuring a redesigned user-interface and sporting the new Carakan JavaScript engine and Vega graphics library. Click here for more features.


A test to check its new JavaScript engine using SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark was conducted and test is:

Lesser the thing..better it is:
Opera = 606.0ms

Chrome = 958.2ms

Firefox = 1822.4ms

Winner = Opera


System specs:

Lenovo Xuri Laptop

Intel Celeron M CPU 520 @1.6Ghz

1.5GB RAM

Windows 7 32-bit Ultimate

Download Opera 10.5 here.

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Janco Assocoiates, a management consulting firm, has released data regarding Browser and Operating System Market Share. What is nice to see is windows 7 has clogged 14.8 percent of the OS market. This is more than Windows Vista users on any day. It comes as a relief to Microsoft which faced a lot of heat on its Vista OS.

However one interesting fact is that Microsoft has been through rough patch in last six months. Its Internet Explorer market share which is taking it on back foot as its market share has fallen to the level that it was in 1998.

The top five browser market share rankings are: Microsoft's IE 67.73 percent; Firefox 17.88 percent; Google (Desktop & Chrome) 5.40 percent; Mozilla 1.36 percent; and Safari 0.98 percent.

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It's no surprise that Microsoft has been working on Windows 8 for a while, moving from general planning to more in-depth discussions in the spring; earlier this month the Windows team finalized the key scenarios.


That's not down to dissatisfaction with Windows 7; Microsoft always starts planning the next version as soon as it's clear what's going to make it into the version under development.

At this stage there isn't any official information and there won't be for a year or more. But there are some things we do know.

1. Windows 8 release date is late 2011 or early 2012

That's 2-3 years after Windows 7; leaving aside the aberration of Vista, that's the typical time between Windows releases and it matches up with the 2012 dates mentioned on leaked Windows Server timelines.

While Windows President Steven Sinofsky says he doesn't want to "underpromise and over-deliver" for Windows, it's likely that Microsoft will announce the later date and ship on the earlier one.


2. Hibernate and resume will have a new engine

According to the profile of an intern on the Windows team, there's going to be a new Hibernate/Resume Integration API using what he calls "the new TLZ file compression engine". That could mean even faster hibernation and resume times – if it makes it into the final code.

3. Windows 8 will have new networking and security features

Another intern reports working on "new networking features"; that tells us about as much as the profile of the Software Security Engineer who's working on "Windows 8 security".

Changes in network security, authentication and encryption detailed in a Software Design Engineer's profile are again probably related to Windows Server. Another online resume mentions a possible "follow-on" to the PatchGuard system that stops viruses changing system files that was delayed from Windows 7.

4. Windows 8 will have better multimonitor support

Steven Sinofsky has already said there wasn't time to do more work on the user interface with multiple monitors but that it's on the list for Windows 8, not least because "we all use it at Microsoft". Expect scenarios for handling three or more screens, in various arrangements.

5. Steven Sinofsky is in charge of it

This is both good – he was responsible for getting Windows 7 out on time and working well – and potentially very bad. Sinofsky's expertise is execution rather than vision and for Windows 8 that could mean a pedestrian set of improvements rather than anything potentially game changing.

Windows 7 is more than Vista done right, but it is an excellent execution of the Vista architecture changes. With Windows 7 to compete against, Windows 8 will need to be a lot more exciting than that.