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After the success of Opera Mini and iPhone’s Safari, Microsoft plans to bring Internet Explorer to the mobile phones. The phone will be available in the third quarter of 2008. Now, knowing Microsoft’s past, and what they did to win the first browser war, they sure gonna put up a worthy competent. Ohh, I know what you are thinking.

 
Yahoo has once again rejected a new offer by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo’s search business. Previously Yahoo shareholder Icahn and MS CEO, Steve Ballmer had been discussing about various possible transactions. During the transaction Steve Ballmer had made it clear that if a new board were elected, he would be interested in discussing a major [...]

Ina Fried writes on CNET, suggesting that Microsoft just might come up with an iPhone version of TellMe in recent future. Talking about TellMe, it is a subsidiary of Microsoft (got bought out last year) that allows users to call up a number and speak a word or phrase. That word or phrase is, in [...]

 
MSN Israel, one of Microsoft’s suite of web portals, will now be independently handled by Microsoft.

 
Microsoft today announced that the MSN Israel web portal would no longer be co-managed by Microsoft and Internet Gold, a leading communications group based in Israel. Microsoft had a 49.9 percent share in the portal, with Internet Gold having the [...]

Microsoft has now announced that it has bought the linguistic web search company Powerset for an undisclosed sum. Powerset is a web search company that is building a natural language search engine using semantic language software that reads and understands every sentence on the Web.

OK, all the SEO advices apart, I have always maintained that the best looking websites that I have ever seen were all Flash websites. Flash is a tricky tool, if used well, it can create wonders for your website, but if not handled properly, it can completely ruin the experience. Many of the so-called experts in web have, at times, offered their opinions on how a particular website is doomed just because it used Flash. Time for all of them to eat the humble pie.

Bill Gates is soon to retire and there are many speculations about what is he going to do after his retirement. Since most of the bloggers are busy blogging about it I decided to come up with something else. Let us travel into the past and see what really made Bill Gates angry during the year 2003.

Now this will leave all Microsoft bashers red faced [especially in India]. According to a survey by global market and insight group TNS, US software giant Microsoft has topped the list of most reputed companies in India! Although what’s surprising is that this comes on the back of repeated protests against both, Microsoft and Bill Gates for being socially irresponsible

Following the tradition started by Ankit, here’s another WAT’s Up Online where we try to report all the news and happenings that we missed in the day, so that our readers don’t feel left out.

Bill Gates is supposed to leave Microsoft officially next week. Everywhere on the Internet, there are pieces doing the rounds I gaining Microsoft without Bill Gates. Bill has been the principle force behind Microsoft. He had an active role to play in all the decisions in the company. He knew about all the technologies being developed at Microsoft. At heart, Gates was always a hacker.

Microsoft has confirmed that they will always be the first to release their next-gen consoles into the market. Microsoft is famous for cutting short their hardware cycles to increase their profits. The Xbox360 has been in the world market for 3 years now, and there are rumours going on for successor of Microsoft’s Xbox.

Microsoft India announced (yesterday) a renewed investment of USD 20 million in the education space over the next five years. The company has also renewed its commitment to the India chapter of Partners in Learning, its global program that provides the education community with resources and training that can allow students, teachers and institutions to [...]

OK, 150 million licenses later, Windows Vista is still not considered anywhere near a success and Microsoft is making sure, Seven (Windows 7) doesn’t goes the same way. Windows 7 is said to be out as early as late-2009 (earlier speculated to be around 2010).
Whatever M$ messed up with Vista, it’s now looking to correct with 7

Microsoft previewed Windows 7 a couple of days back   Bill Gates says it’s the beginning of an era of computing based on a new hierarchy of input systems. Today the machine is really set up for one person to sit at a keyboard. “We’re at an interesting junction,” he says. “In the next few years, the roles [...]

Back in 2007 , a blogger had blogged that a black google would save 3000 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of [...]