BREAKING: 科技巨头推出的智能面包机

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苹果, 微软, 和谷歌推出的智能烤面包机的计划. 准备 – 这是巨大的.

在加利福尼亚州的某个地方 — 在一个惊人的启示,它的头变成了高科技的世界, 三重奏的科技巨头宣布,计划一个聪明的烤面包机. 苹果, 微软, 和谷歌推出的举办方在本周末的一系列新设备. 这勇敢的记者参加了所有三个.

让我们来看看.

Microsoft buys Skype

Skype logoMicrosoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (良好, 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.

但, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (当然, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying usersobviously not very many, but it’s still some.

兵: the little engine thatcouldn’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, 下载 山羊, 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.

微软有助于杀垃圾邮件发送者

良好, 不是真的杀, 刚刚打倒. 但它使标题好听.

在其他新闻, 微软终于打倒Rustock的做一些正确的事情, 引起感染数百万台计算机和一个僵尸网络发送大量的垃圾邮件. Rustock的之一。 (如果不是的) 在世界上最大的垃圾邮件网络.

微软 (和一些联邦调查局) 搜查在美国和一些托管设施拿了下来,指示受感染的计算机发送垃圾邮件的服务器.

你可以阅读更多在 CNET.

Internet Explorer的 9 出

Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. Internet Explorer的 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: