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Microsoft Signing Up Hardware Makers For Android-Chrome Licensing Deal
It might seem contradicting how the headline may read. How come Microsoft is getting hardware companies to make Google Android-Chrome deals? But the fact is it is not some headline error. Microsoft is striking up licensing deals with hardware makers that use Google Android and Chrome operating systems on their products. It's quite a complicated thing that Microsoft and Google find themselves in he... [Read More]
Windows 7 Now World's Most Popular OS
A StatCounter graph has now shown that Windows 7 OS has taken over its fellow XP to become the most popular operating system in the world, roughly two years since Microsoft's latest OS was introduced. This milestone, according to StatCounter, happened on October 2011. The graph shows that Windows 7 has 40 percent share of the market compared to 38 percent of Windows XP. As for the Vista, the much-... [Read More]
Bing Launches Airport Maps
Bing, Microsoft's online search engine service, has recently announced that it is launching airport maps. This feature will be integrated into Bing Search and will provide Bing users with information and maps of the major airports across the US. Bing will initially provide information to 42 major airports and plans to add maps of additional airports over time. The most important aspect of this new... [Read More]
Microsoft Bing Partners Up With Baidu For Online Search In China
Microsoft Bing is partnering up with Chinese online search engine Baidu in order to gain entry into the vast Chinese online market. Baidu, China's largest search engine in terms of revenue, is getting into agreement with Microsoft for displaying English language search results on its page being powered by Bing. This partnership may give Microsoft the opportunity to offer its Bing search engine to ... [Read More]
Microsoft Hohm Service To Be Discontinued
? Good ideas, even the greatest ones, would simply not take off and be successful if only quite a few people see their value and use. Good ideas turned to products or services may not necessarily become popular if the people factor is not taken into consideration. A likely example would be those services that aid people in monitoring their power usage at home. A good idea in itself, but with the l... [Read More]
Microsoft Earns Revenue From Android Phones
Although Microsoft and Google may be considered as competitors even in the mobile phone market, it seems that the former may be profiting by virtue of the latter, in a way. Microsoft may be earning profits from sales of Android smartphones. What is even ironic is that Microsoft may be earning 5 times more from Android phone sales than it does with sales of its own Windows Phone 7. Microsoft is par... [Read More]
Microsoft Acquires Skype For $8.5 Billion Cash
It seems that there is no stopping tech giants from even becoming bigger. With Google venturing into other tech businesses to add into its portfolio aside from its profitable online search and ads division, software giant Microsoft may be following the same path. It may also be trying to get into other tech businesses in order to bulk up its revenues and earning capacity in the future. This includ... [Read More]
Microsoft Reports Record 3rd Quarter Earnings
It seems that many tech companies have recently been reporting record quarter earnings. Software giant Microsoft seem to follow suit as it recently reported record earnings for its fiscal 3rd quarter. For starters, Microsoft reported $16.43 billion in total revenue for the 3rd quarter. It stands for a 13 percent increase compared to the total revenue made for the same quarter last year. But total ... [Read More]
Microsoft and Feds Take Down Biggest Spam Producer
Microsoft Corp. has announced that its joint effort with United States federal authorities were able to take down one of the biggest producers of spam e-mail. The company has said its legal action against the operator of the Rustock "botnet," which consists of a network of infected computers programmed to send junk e-mail, has resulted to raids across the country last week aiming to shut down netw... [Read More]
"Do Not Track" Preference Included in Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has announce that its newest Web browser, Internet Explorer 9, will support Do Not Track. This privacy feature, which was developed by Mozilla, asks users whether they want websites to follow their online activity. Apart from that feature, Microsoft will also add its own Tracking Protection Lists to the IE9 to fully protect consumers. The TPL forcibly blocks tracking by unapproved sites.... [Read More]