Microsoft Windows XP Market Share Drops Down Below 50%

Windows XP finally dips below 50 per cent mark and has been slowly losing momentum duringeach month since Windows 7’s release. The aging OS has been shedding market share each month over the past few years, touching 62 percent a year ago and 51 percent in June before its latest dip in July. Microsoft said it will cut support for Windows XP in another three years and they are trying to persuade users to switch to Windows 7 before then…………..

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Microsoft Has To Pay $70M To Alcatel-Lucent For Patent Infringement Claim Back In 2003

Microsoft has been ordered to pay US$70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one time could have cost Microsoft $1.5 billion and the suit was brought by Lucent in 2003, before it merged with Alcatel. The patent was originally applied for by engineers at AT&T, covers a method of entering information into fields on a computer screen without using a keyboard and an earlier trial involving the same parties found Microsoft guilty of infringing on that patent in the company’s Outlook e-mail software, Windows Mobile, and Microsoft Money…………….

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A Bay Village Sued Microsoft For Infringing Kinect Motion-Sensing Video Game Controller

Microsoft is being sued by an Ohio-based company called Impulse Technology for allegedly infringing on its patents with the rapidly selling Kinect motion-sensing video game controller and filed suit claimed that the controller-free motion tracking violates its patents for System and method for tracking and assessing movement skills in multidimensional space. The company claims that Microsoft is willfully infringing on these patents and although this will be an interesting piece of news to watch, because other companies have also invested in motion- and position-detecting technologies in gaming and other applications…………..

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Microsoft Opening The Door Of Windows Phone Mango OS For The Developers

Microsoft announced a revamped developer portal for Windows Phone 7 developers and developer will be able to start submitting their new WP7 Mango applications in August. Microsoft is also announcing that it is expanding its developer reach to seven new markets and developer will also benefit in that 19 new consumer markets will be added. Microsoft is helping programmers with a streamlined app submission process and had shown off a number of new second-generation hardware to support Windows Phone 7…………….

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Microsoft Owns Microsoft-Sony.com

Microsoft now owns Microsoft-Sony.com and Sony-Microsoft.com, the most immediate thoughts of what the domains could be used for turn to a joint gaming console venture between the two companies. The move is worth noting if only because the company doesn’t own similar domains and it could be something as mundane as a joint marketing campaign for Sony laptops or nothing at all…………..

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Microsoft Working on Social Service Named Tulalip?

It has been revealed that Microsoft is working on a social search service called Tulalip where users can easily find and share stuff. The website was leaked mistakenly when it came online for testing and some users managed to get the information about the domain, and get a sneak preview of the service.

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Microsoft Licenses GeoVector

Microsoft licenses GeoVector’s augmented reality search for local guidance and potentially opening the door to pointing-based local search being included in future mobile devices like Windows Phone handsets. While much of the technology relies on GPS and a compass for directional-based discovery, the licensor also holds intellectual property for object recognition and it’s unclear whether this element falls within the agreement…………..

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Microsoft Invests Billion Into Partners

Microsoft announced that it will invest 5.8 billion dollars into the Microsoft Partner Network in fiscal year 2012 and the expenditure will be a combination of tools, training and incentives. Microsoft is also starting a new communications competency in which partners can obtain Gold or Silver competencies and offering monetary incentives and license mobility through Microsoft Software Assurance for Hyper-V, System Center and SQL Server to help software hosting partners boost sales by allowing customers to deploy server application licenses with Software Assurance either on-premise or in the cloud………….

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