Некаде во Калифорнија — Во прекрасен серија на откритието дека се претвори во тек светот на глава, трио на технолошки гиганти ги објави плановите за паметни тостер. Јаболко, Мајкрософт, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. Овој храбар новинар присуствуваа сите три.
Ајде да ги разгледаме.
Мајкрософт го купи популарни IM / гласовен разговор апликација Skype (добро, не само на производот, целата компанија) за $8.5 милијарди, што го прави најголемиот купување Мајкрософт некогаш. Сметам дека малку смешно, бидејќи Skype всушност направи загуба од $7 милиони минатата година.
Но, кога ќе размислите околу тоа, има смисла. Skype има 663 million user accounts (се разбира, 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 Коза, my free and open-source flashcard program.)
Тоа е добро и добро, since you’re allowed to advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:
Добро, 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.
Мајкрософт (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: