Irgendwo in Kalifornien — In einer beeindruckenden Reihe von Offenbarungen, die Tech-Welt auf den Kopf gestellt, ein Trio von tech Riesen Pläne für eine intelligente Toaster. Apfel, Microsoft, und Google gehalten Einführung Parteien an diesem Wochenende für eine Reihe von neuen Geräten. Dieser mutige Reporter besuchte alle drei.
Werfen wir einen Blick.
Microsoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (gut, not just the product, the whole company) für $8.5 billion, making it Microsoft’s largest purchase ever. I find that a little funny since Skype actually made a loss of $7 million last year.
Aber, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (natürlich, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying users – obviously not very many, but it’s still some.
Wenn Sie ein elektronisches Gerät im letzten Jahr gekauft haben, werden Sie feststellen, dass Microsoft Räuspern seine Suchmaschine Bing mehr, als ich hawk meine Produkte. (Auf einem völlig unabhängig Note, Download ZIEGE, meine freie und Open-Source-Flashcard-Programm.)
Das ist alles schön und gut, da Sie erlaubt zu werben sind, aber Microsoft geht wirklich auf die Spitze:
Gut, not really kill, just bring down. But it makes the title sound nice.
In other news, Microsoft has finally done something right by bringing down Rustock, a botnet that infected millions of computers and caused them to send massive amounts of spam. Rustock was one of the (if not the) biggest spam networks in the world.
Microsoft (and some feds) raided some hosting facilities in the US and took down the servers that instructed infected computers to send spam.
You can read more at cnet.
Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. Internet Explorer 9 is now out and can be downloaded from microsoft.com. Here’s the catch: it only works on Windows Vista and 7.
Let me repeat that:
Thoughts on the new browser
For one thing, it’s a lot better than Internet Explorer 8, although that isn’t saying much. To be honest, it’s actually decent; Internet Explorer can now compete with the other popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome.
Here’s what really matters: