Microsoft Research-backed e-reader prototype can’t keep its text to itself with two multi-touch displays and the left screen is meant for navigating the web, keeping track of your calendar and manipulating photos, also the right screen will be mostly used for managing what Microsoft refers to as the Infinite Journal the place where the user’s notes and important multimedia will be stored…………….
The most talked-about figure in the newly-published statistics is a 33 per cent hike in the proportion of Windows 7 computers suffering from a malware infection and that’s a potentially misleading oversimplification. Microsoft Corporation released the tenth volume of its Security Intelligence Report, which noted that users of social networking sites are being targeted increasingly by cybercriminals and it highlights an increase of over 1200 per cent in phishing through social networking sites……..
Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software and it It works with your existing antivirus software.The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded and to rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again…………
Hrvoje Benko, a researcher at Microsoft is working on methods of recognizing shapes formed by hands and equating those with spatially-consistent gestures and putting the side of your hand down like a wall forms a straight line that could be used for a boundary, cropping or pushing objects.It’s a very natural extension of how you interact with a surface and that’s how you interact with most surfaces………….
Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion becomes official and combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase market opportunity.This purchase shouldn’t affect Skypers outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, as Steve Ballmer’s team promises to continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms.Skype was first sold for a relative bargain at $2.5b to eBay in 2005, who in turn sold most of it off to Silver Lake in 2009 at an overall valuation of $2.75b and now Redmond is concluding proceedings by tripling those earlier prices and offering Skype a permanent home……………
Steve Balmer showed up at Blackberry World and gave the news that Microsoft was planning to invest seriously in RIM and thus create a stronger partnership with the Canadians. Microsoft is going to invest in the Blackberry platform so that Bing becomes the default search engine. According to a Microsoft spokeswoman, they are planning to introduce Bing as a default search engine for US and international select markets starting from this years’ season holidays.
Microsoft announces record Q3 earnings , sng enterprise and Xbox momentum drive revenue growth of 13% and earnings per share of $0.61 and also $16.43 billion revenue, $5.23 billion net income.The main reason for the anxiety: Revenue in the division that includes Microsoft’s foundation, the Windows operating system, declined from the same time last year for the second-straight quarter and the slide stems from consumers buying fewer personal computers that run the company’s software………..
Microsoft confirmed that the upcoming version of Windows Phone 7 operating system will be called as the Windows Phone 7.5. Popularly known as the Mango update, it is set to be released in the later part of 2011.