Tag: Microsoft

RHUAV: Tech giants unveil ntse ua lub ci qhob cij

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Kua, Microsoft, thiab Google yog unveiling txoj kev pab rau cov ntse toasters. Npaj txhij – qhov no yog qhov loj loj.

QHOV CHAW NYOB HAUV CALIFORNIA — Nyob hauv lub stunning series tshwm sim uas muab tech ntiaj teb rau hauv nws lub taub hau, ib trio ntawm tech giants tshaj tawm txoj kev pab rau ib lub ci qhob cij ntse. Kua, Microsoft, thiab Google tuav ob tog community launch lis xaus no rau hauv li tshiab. No reporter siab tawv kawm txhua yam peb.

Cia wb mus saib.

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Microsoft lub buys Skype

Skype logoMicrosoft twb yuav nrov txhij/lub suab tham ntaub ntawv rau Skype (zoo, tsis yog qhov khoom, lub tuam txhab tseem) rau $8.5 nphom, ua nws lub Microsoft coob purchase puas. Kuv nrhiav tau uas funny me ntsis vim Skype ua tau ua ib tug tsi $7 tsaib no lab.

Tab sis npog, Thaum twg koj xav txog nws, tej kev txiav txim zoo zoo. Skype muaj 663 neeg tso nyiaj lab (tau mas, tsis tag muaj) thiab txog 8 cov neeg uas raug them yug lab – obviously tsis tshua ntau, tab sis, nws yog ib co tseem.

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Bing: the little engine that… couldn’t?

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.)

That’s all well and good, since you’re allowed to advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:

  1. Microsoft signed a deal with Blackberry so that Bing would be the only search engine available on Blackberrys.
  2. My sister bought a new computer and was offered a free song download if she searched with Bing.
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Microsoft helps kill spammers

Qhov tshij, 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.

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Internet Explorer 9 is out

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:

It only works in Vista and 7. It doesn’t work in XP.

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:

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