Sa isang lugar sa CALIFORNIA — Sa isang nakamamanghang serye ng mga revelations na naka sa tech mundo sa ulo, ng trio ng tech giants inihayag ng mga plano para sa isang smart toaster. Mansanas, Microsoft, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. Ang matapang na reporter na dinaluhan tatlo.
Natin tingnan.
Microsoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (mahusay, not just the product, the whole company) for $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.
Pero, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (oo naman, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying users – obviously not very many, but it’s still some.
Kung nag-bumili ng isang elektronikong aparato sa nakaraang taon, mapapansin mo na ang Microsoft ay hawking higit pa nito Bing search engine kaysa maglako ko ang aking mga produkto. (Sa isang ganap na walang-kaugnayang tala, download Kambing, aking flashcard programa libre at open-source.)
Iyon lang ang mahusay at magandang, dahil pinapayagan ka na mag-advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:
Mahusay, 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: