Microsoft’s Bing has made some really impressive progress over the past few years in making itself a preferred search engine. Today it crossed the 20 percent mark in the US search market share, eating away most from Google & Yahoo.Google took the top spot with 64.5 percent, followed by Bing with 20.1 percent and then Yahoo with 12.8 percent finally ... Read More »
There were just speculations yesterday and today Nokia has officially announced that it plans to go ahead with the purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. Nokia will pay $16.6 billion in share for takeover Alcatel-Lucent, a rival telecom equipment manufacturer. The merger will be complete by first half of next year. In a statement, Alcatel-Lucent CEO Michel Combes said “This transaction comes at ... Read More »
In CODE Conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that the company has no plans whats-so-ever to sell anything related to its search engine Bing or its gaming platform Xbox. For Satya Nadella interview it is clear that Microsoft is planning to invest more into Bing and Xbox, both of which have been showing very good results. Satya said that ... Read More »
Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch Office for iPad before July this year. Speculations were rife that the software giant was working on Office for iPhone and iPad a while back, but Microsoft unveiled only the iPhone version, leaving tablet users with the option of Office Web Apps to tab. According to the Verge, development on Office for iPad has ... Read More »
As 2013 draws to an end, Microsoft charts the progress of its in-house search technology—Bing. Bing may continue to trail behind Google, but Microsoft is nonetheless touting its search technology’s progress during the final days of 2013. “Over the past 12 months, we have shipped thousands of changes to the search experience which are directly based on how you use ... Read More »
Microsoft sure is doing an awesome job with their Internet Explorer ads. This time they pulled off an anime ad, and boy for an anime fan IT IS AWESOME! The girl in the anime ad is Inori Aizawa. Who Microsoft has created for the IE. She is now the official mascot of the Internet Explorer according to her Facebook Page. ... Read More »
Microsoft has announced Windows 8.1, this will be a free upgrade people already running Windows 8. Windows 8.1 will be available in two editions the Basic priced at $119.99 and the Pro priced at $199.99. Microsoft is also planning to change the way it sells copies of Windows 8.1. With Windows 8 you had to buy an upgrade edition online ... Read More »
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