日: マイクロソフト

BREAKING: ハイテクの巨人は、スマートトースターを発表

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アップル, マイクロソフト, とGoogleはスマートトースターのための計画を発表アール. 準備をする – これは巨大です.

SOMEWHERE IN CALIFORNIA — その頭の上にハイテクの世界を回した啓示の素晴らしいシリーズの, ハイテク巨人のトリオは、スマートトースターの計画を発表. アップル, マイクロソフト, そしてGoogleは、新しいデバイスのシリーズの打ち上げパーティーを今週末開催. この勇敢な記者は、3つすべてに出席.

のは、見てみましょう.

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Microsoft buys Skype

Skype logoMicrosoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (よく, not just the product, the whole company) ために $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.

しかし, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (もちろん, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying users – obviously not very many, but it’s still some.

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ビング: 少しエンジンという… できませんでした?

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, ダウンロード ヤギ, my free and open-source flashcard program.)

それはすべてが順調と良いです, 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

よく, 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.

マイクロソフト (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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インターネットエクスプローラ 9 is out

Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. インターネットエクスプローラ 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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