Category: Microsoft
Microsoft releases earning figures FY12 Q1
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 […]
Read More | ShareSteve Ballmer at Web Summit 2.0
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. […]
Read More | ShareBing Social Search shows Twitter Map
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 […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Acquire Yahoo, Take 2?
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 […]
Read More | ShareBing Webmaster Survey
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 […]
Read More | ShareBing renews Search Deal with Twitter
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 […]
Read More | ShareWindows7 boosting IE market share in Australia?
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 […]
Read More | ShareMobile Browser Market Share Australia – July 2011
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 […]
Read More | ShareBing upgrades Webmaster Tools
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 […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Purchases Skype for $8.5 Billion
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 […]
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