EN UN LUGAR DE CALIFORNIA — En una impresionante serie de revelaciones que convirtió al mundo de la tecnología en la cabeza, un trío de gigantes tecnológicos anunció planes para una tostadora inteligente. Manzana, Microsoft, y Google celebra las fiestas de lanzamiento de este fin de semana para una serie de nuevos dispositivos. Este reportero valiente que asistieron los tres.
Vamos a echar un vistazo.
Microsoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (bien, not just the product, the whole company) para $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.
Sino, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (por supuesto,, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying users – obviously not very many, but it’s still some.
If you’ve bought an electronic device in the last year, you’ll notice that Microsoft is hawking its search engine Bing more than I hawk my products. (On a totally unrelated note, download Cabra, my free and open-source flashcard program.)
Eso es todo bien y bueno, since you’re allowed to advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:
Bien, not really kill, just bring down. Pero tiene el título suena bien.
En otras noticias, Microsoft por fin ha hecho algo bien mediante un descenso de Rustock, una red de bots que infectó millones de ordenadores y los llevó a enviar grandes cantidades de correo no deseado. Rustock fue uno de los (si no el) mayores redes de spam en el mundo.
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.
Bien hecho, Proyecto de ley, por fin has hecho algo bien. Internet Explorer 9 is now out and can be downloaded from microsoft.com. Aquí está el truco: 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: