There are several report floating around about a letter Bill Gates wrote to Steve Jobs as he was dying. Apparently the letter meant so much to Steve Jobs he kept it by his bed in his last days alive. Mr Gates hasn’t released many details about the letter but has said: “I told Steve about [...]

Microsoft has been working on their Windows Store which will be compatible with Windows 7 and 8, x86 machines. The revenue split has been revealed which compromises of the following: initial revenue split of 70/30 to the developer once the app sells more than $25,000 the split will go to 80/20 to the developer Initially [...]

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is now out of beta. Bing and Yahoo7 have struck a deal to power Yahoo Searches in Australia – if you run a web search on Yahoo.com.au (au.yahoo.com) this is now powered by Bing. Therefore your Bing SEO is more important than ever. If you visit www.bing.com it is now localised [...]

Bill Gates has just delivered a speech to the University Of Washington about a number of tech, science and humanitarian topics. Mr Gates also discusses about his work with Warren Buffett and them both giving away their money to help 3rd world countries, and also that the rich should be taxed much more. Mr Gates [...]

The first Nokia Windows Phone has been released at the Nokia World Conference in London last night (Australia time). The phone is a Nokia Lumia 800. Specifications include: 1.4 GHz processor hardware acceleration graphics processor 512 MB of RAM 16 GB hard drive/ internal memory Carl-Zeiss 8-megapixel camera The phone will run on the Windows [...]

One of my favourite tech interviews I’ve ever watched has to be between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the AllThingsDigital conference in 2007. Steve and Bill had been competitors, business partners and friends over a 30 year period when Microsoft and Apple were first started as companies. Watching this interview gives you great insight [...]

Microsoft has released their Q1 results for FY 2012, showing continued business and consumer growth across the Microsoft product lines. Key Stats of Interest: – Since the release of Windows 7 in 2009, more than 450 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. – Windows 8 will very much have an ‘App based’ layout [...]

I am always interested to hear the news from Microsoft, after all they have been one of the leaders and forefront of technology for over 30 years. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO is always particularly enthusiastic and exciting on stage. Steve goes on to talk about various Microsoft products, Windows 8, Xbox, Windows Phones and Bing. [...]

Bing has been evolving it’s social search, mainly because they enjoy a close integration with both Twitter and Facebook. Bing has introduced a new feature whereby you can search Bing Maps for a particular location, and see Tweets in real time occurring in a close proximity. For example I had a search for Sydney and [...]

There are rumors floating around that Microsoft may be looking to make another bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. In 2008 Microsoft put forward a bid of $44 Billion, which the Yahoo management team rejected. This lead to Yahoo stock price tumbling and Jerry Yang who was CEO (and also Founder of Yahoo) was removed from [...]

If you are a webmaster and have submitted your site to the Bing Webmaster section – they have recently sent out a Survey to everyone signed up to Bing Webmaster tools. Basically Microsoft is looking for your thoughts on the Bing webmaster product, what you like about it, what needs to be improved and any [...]

Bing and Twitter have renewed their realtime search agreement which allows Bing to index Twitter data and Tweets into their search engine. In the past year, Twitter didn’t renew a similar agreement with Google, leaving Google to shut down their real time search engine. This is a good win for Bing, and you can now [...]

It seems as more users are upgrading to Windows7 (or purchasing new PCs) we are starting to see an increase in market share for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. According to global web statistics company, Statcounter – 40% of us in Australia are now using a Windows7 PCs, and there seems to be strong growth month [...]

I was having a look today at the mobile browser market shares in Australia over the past month (June-July 2011). This is basically showing the popularity of the mobile phones most used for mobile internet surfing. We wrote about Mobile Browser Market shares for Australia in May if you want to check previous figures. The [...]

Bing has upgraded their Webmaster Tools site with a number of enhancements for site owners to take advantage of. If you are not aware – Bing has their on Webmaster Tool site in which website owners can submit an XML sitemap and check our particular search engines stats for their site index in Bing, and [...]

Microsoft has just announced their purchase of VOIP software, Skype for $8.5 Billion USD. It is surely expected that Microsoft will closely integrate Skype with Microsoft Office, Windows Phone, XBox Live, Kinect, and no doubt various other Microsoft platforms. Skype currently has over 660 Million accounts globally and over 150 million regular users. Windows Live [...]