Category: Microsoft
Microsoft to release Surface Tablet
Microsoft have just had a press event in the United States. There has been much anticipation about the announcement as Microsoft told everyone last week they would be holding a special event Monday evening US time. Steve Ballmer is on stage and initially has been discussing Windows 8, and how Microsoft Windows is on 1 […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft launches their own Social Network – So.cl
The whole world seems to be going social and Microsoft has followed suit with a quiet launch of its new social networking site, www.so.cl. This website is already displaying principles that Facebook had in its infancy, with its core objective being to allow socialization among learners. So.cl, which is pronounced as ‘social’, aims at combining […]
Read More | ShareIE9 Marketshare Growing in Australia
It seems as though Microsoft’s latest web browser – Internet Exploer 9, is growing market share in Australia. Comparing to Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera – this graph from statcounter.com as of May 2012, shows IE9 browsing (light blue line) at 20%. Also interesting to note IE8 is in 2nd place at 13%. With strong […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft’s Bing redesigns Social Search
Google has been an undisputed leader in the search engine industry and it has dominated the market so much that sometimes people wonder how life was five or ten years BG. So many search engines have been launched in the recent years but none of them has been able to take even a slice of […]
Read More | ShareBill Gates Letter to Steve Jobs
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 […]
Read More | ShareWindows Store
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 […]
Read More | ShareBing Search out of Beta
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 […]
Read More | ShareBill Gates Video At University Of Washington
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 […]
Read More | ShareFirst Nokia/ Windows Phone released
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 […]
Read More | ShareSteve Jobs and Bill Gates
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 […]
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