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Microsoft Online To Launch In India – Will It Succeed?
Microsoft recently launched online tools for Small and Medium Sized Businesses. The sales pitch – Online E-mail, Calendar, Collaboration, Productivity Software can Reduce IT-related Costs by Upto 10% to 50%. In a press release, Microsoft stated that all customers can log on to www.microsoft.com/india/onlineservices and experience the online service. The commercial launch is set to [...]
Why Browser Is The Future Of Computing?
Apple made the news recently by hitting 1.5 billion downloads at it’s app store. Quick to catch on, Google at the recent MobileBeat 2009 Conference said that App stores weren’t really the future. Sour grapes? Not quite. Google has long since focused on the importance of the web. From promoting Android to its latest venture, [...]
Bing includes Twitter in results – real time search? Not Quite
The Bing v/s Google Battle has been raging on for quite some time now. Companies are giving Twitter a lot of attention, and it’s not rivals like Facebook , but software giant Microsoft who has also entered the Twitter arena to grab as much attention as possible. In a recent report, Microsoft has started tweeting, [...]
Microsoft Sending Windows 7 To Europe Without Internet Explorer – A Sign Of Things To Come?
Ever mindful of the watchful eyes of the European Union, Microsoft has confirmed the rumours that it will not be including Internet Explorer in the latest version of its operating system Windows 7, that it ships in Europe. In fact, no browser will included in the operating system by default. This comes as a precautionary [...]
Microsoft puts OneRiot real time search in Internet Explorer 8
On May 29th Microsoft launched Bing its new decision engine with much fanfare (they are pumping in more than 80M $ for adverts on Bing!), and there have been some pretty good reviews about it. But one more important update from Microsoft that got buried in all the hoopla was the fact that it has [...]
Search Giants Moving Towards Social Media? Google Tackles Digg Heads On
iGoogle, the popular Google service, is a customizable AJAX-based homepage where users (after signing in) can create custom homepages by adding widgets, unique backgrounds and web feeds. With iGoogle, users can select unique themes for their Google homepages. Some of the themes are even animated depending on weather conditions, the time in your area, and [...]
Dell-ista to Dell-inx The Road Untravelled
With the launch of much hyped Dell Adamo, Dell proved that it has the muscles to sustain as the world largest PC manufacturer but Adamo is not well accepted by the market as expected due to numerous reasons like heavy price tag ( Starting $1999) and Microsoft Vista which has already gained huge criticism because [...]
Microsoft Corp Gets A Lucrative Deal With Discovery Communications Inc.
As a company, Microsoft is one of the most respectable and is widely looked as the epitome in everything which is connected to Computers in some sense. It again proved its supremacy over Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc.’s You Tube when they struck a lucrative seven figure advertising deal with Discovery Communications Inc. This deal [...]
Microsoft Yahoo Talk Again Sans Any Sign of Takeover
All Things Digital yesterday brought out an exclusive piece of news about the CEOs of Yahoo and Microsoft having several talks on a likely partnership for their online business, especially search. According to allthingsd.com, the talksbegan in the last several weeks that apparently included a face-to-face meeting last week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally talking about search and also advertising partnerships the companies could possibly strike. The report also suggested that another takeover bid by Microsoft is not part of the talks this time around.
ExecTweets.com – Twitter, Microsoft and FM Team up to What Seems an Online Advertising Escapade – Twitter’s First Monetization Step?
Find and Follow Top Business Execs on Twitter is how the tagline goes on Exectweets.com. Their about page reads as follows: ExecTweets is a resource to help you find and follow the top business executives on Twitter. Created by Federated Media, in partnership with Microsoft, ExecTweets is a platform that aggregates the tweets of top business execs and empowers the community to surface the most insightful, business-related tweets.
In other words Twitter and Federated Media have come up with an online branding/advertising solution for Microsoft. In further words Twitter might have just cut its monetization chord.
IE 8 Goes out of Beta – Microsoft Releases the Latest Public Version of Its Famed Browser
It’s been nearly a year since we first heard of Microsoft and its IE 8 browser. And finally after all these months of Beta testing the browser is now live for public use. Internet Explorer 8 is available as a free download on Microsoft’s Web site to licensed Microsoft operating system users. IE8 will run on computers with Windows Vista as well as Windows XP.
Microsoft Predicts A Touch Screen Future For The World In 10 Years
Microsoft’s Business Division president Stephen Elop presented the latest production from Microsoft Office Labs called “2019″ at the Wharton Business Technology Conference held recently. The presentation had a video which was nothing short of images like you might have seen in the movie Minority Report. Check the Video below.
Microsoft is known for making futuristic predictions [...]
Microsoft Research Has Its Hands on Gazelle – Browser, OS, Microsoft?
They have been blamed for creating the apparently the worst browser scourging the web these days. Their Operating System has been mocked all around by those who have seen faster and more secure systems. The reason of course is that despite all the drawbacks Microsoft still holds fort when it comes to most users for both their browser and their OS. And now news trickles in that they have unveiled Gazelle – a web browser constructed so as to act like an operating system (unveiled doesn’t mean it’s available just yet).
Bharti Airtel launches A Windows-based Online Desktop on Airtel broadband
Bharti Airtel just a few days ago announced the launch of the world’s first Windows based Online Desktop-powered by Microsoft and Nivio, giving access to a personal virtual desktop from any computer connected to the internet for Airtel broadband customers.
This initiative will pave the way for easy and affordable access to computing and broadband in [...]
Microsoft picks up minority stake in the SMS2.0 firm Affle
Microsoft reportedly picked up a minority stake in a Singapore based SMS 2.0 firm Affle, the press release from the Affle reports that it has established a strategic relationship with Microsoft to strengthen its mobile media business where in Windows Live Search and MSN content services have already been integrated and deployed on SMS2.0 in [...]