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  • kahwee 1:33 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , microsoft, , ,   

    Yahoo gives up on search, gives in to Microsoft and will serve Bing results:

    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090728_826397.htm

    That’s one search giant down. Bing, with the combined searches of Yahoo would approach 30%:

    Yahoo will essentially scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and the BoomTown blog. Ads placed next to those search results would be served up not by Yahoo’s ad platform, dubbed Panama, but by a Microsoft technology called AdCenter, says another report from Advertising Age. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz “is essentially giving up on search,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land.

    Yahoo salespeople likely will continue to sell the search ads that appear both on Yahoo sites and on Bing. And the company that sells an ad—in this case, Yahoo—may get as much as 80% of the resulting revenue.

    It’s unfortunate with one less player in the search market although I am partly guilty of it since I kinda pro-Google.

     

  • kahwee 11:58 pm on July 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , microsoft, microsoft wave   

    This site by Microsoft is surprisingly rather badly designed: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/wave/home.aspx

    It’s center, yet not quite. It chose a USB plug but what’s the link. And the reflection at the bottom looks messy, maybe because I’m not using Internet Explorer. And you need to click on the text to change the tabs.

    [EDIT: It doesn't look matching in Internet Explorer 8 either.]

     

  • uzyn 12:43 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , microsoft   

    If your idol says hating Microsoft is uncool, you had better listen.

    Slashdot: Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred “a Disease”

     

    • kahwee 11:54 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink

      Smart asked Torvalds if Microsoft was contributing the code to benefit the Linux community or Microsoft. ‘I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches.”

      …

      ‘So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That’s the point of open source — the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the “your” in question happens to be.’”

      Selfish? I don’t really selfishness here. For the first time something is being shared, calling the landmark move “selfish” is not appropriate.

      I don’t think Linus is happy about it, deep down he’s probably hating it but he can’t do a thing. Not accepting the code would be a major boo-boo for open source, they have to accept it anyway.

      Linus is like a baker who ate someone else’s piece of cake and insists a little more milk would be better.

  • kahwee 1:43 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: driver, , microsoft, , oscon, source code   

    Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel :

    In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.

    “Obviously we are tickled about it,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “Hell has frozen over, the seas have parted,” he said with a chuckle.

    Microsoft made the announcement at the annual OSCON open source conference that opened Monday in San Jose.

    Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux driver project lead and a Novell fellow, said he accepted 22,000 lines of Microsoft’s code at 9 a.m.PST Monday. Kroah-Hartman said the Microsoft code will be available as part of the next Linux public tree release in the next 24 hours. The code will become part of the 2.6.30.1 stable release.

    http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html

    All I can say is that this is a good sign.

     

    • uzyn 5:14 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink

      OK you beat me to this. Wanted to blog about this too and since you’ve done it, I’ll just add my comment I originally wished to append here:

      Could we be seeing a new UNIX-based OS from Microsoft? Just like how Apple did with the transition from OS 9 to OS X.

    • kahwee 2:47 pm on July 25, 2009 Permalink

      I think it’s likely Microsoft would come out with it’s own Linux-variant but it’s unlikely Microsoft would move Windows from what it already is today. Windows can still remain Windows and Microsoft can still move into Linux the Red Hat way.

      I can imagine it’s an option that they’re evaluating since many governments are moving into open source operating system and Microsoft is most eligible for a share in the open source enterprise business. They’ve almost got nothing to lose here and can advertise greater interoperability and still place their commercial titles into the open source Linux. Nothing but pride is preventing Microsoft from forking Ubuntu as a base to create Microsoft Open Source Operating System 2010 Enterprise Edition.

      So I say why not? Haha, the GNU fans would curse and swear though.

  • kahwee 10:41 pm on July 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , microsoft, popfly   

    Microsoft Popfly shuts down. I got an email:

    I’m writing to thank you for registering and using Microsoft Popfly. I’ve been fortunate enough to see all the innovative mashups, Web pages, and games created by the Popfly community since we launched Popfly two years ago. It has truly been a pleasure to watch the spirit of creativity flow through a growing Popfly community over the life of the product.

    It’s with a heavy heart that I share some news with you today: on August 24, 2009, the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be taken down.

    After August 24th, your access to your Popfly account, including any games and mashups that you’ve created, will be discontinued. However, Microsoft is still very much dedicated to helping you express your creativity and pursuing a path to software development. If you’re interested in refining your skills in Web applications, please visit Microsoft Web Platform Installer. For those interested in programming on the Xbox, then please visit Microsoft XNA or Microsoft Kodu. And for those who are interested in Windows programming, please visit Microsoft Express.

    Thanks again for your support and please don’t hesitate to contact us at popfly@microsoft.com if you have any questions.

    Regards,
    John Montgomery
    for the Popfly Team

    More at Techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/17/microsoft-popfly-gets-squashed/

     

  • kahwee 12:21 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , campaign, , microsoft, , , strategy   

    Those Microsoft laptop hunter ads may be working after all (strangely):

    From the transcript of a presentation at the Worldwide Partner Conference today:

    And you know why I know they’re working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department saying, hey — this is a true story — saying, “Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices.” They took like $100 off or something. It was the greatest single phone call in the history that I’ve ever taken in business. (Applause.)

    I did cartwheels down the hallway. At first I said, “Is this a joke? Who are you?” Not understanding what an opportunity. And so we’re just going to keep running them and running them and running them.

    Source: Crunchgear

     

  • kahwee 8:41 am on July 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: coca cola, , microsoft, pepsi, public relations,   

    Microsoft and Linux holds peaceful tweets as reported by Techcrunch

    Linux: Welcome to Twitter, @Microsoft #
    Mirosoft: @Linux thanks, nice to be here #

    Meanwhile in Twitter, you can also find Coca Cola and Pepsi following each other.

     

  • kahwee 2:06 am on June 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , microsoft   

    I want to share a joke today:

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

     

  • kahwee 12:20 am on June 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: 64-bit, microsoft, , visual studio   

    Why Visual Studio doesn’t go 64-bit and why Office does: http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/06/10/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version.aspx

     

  • uzyn 5:19 pm on June 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , entertainment, microsoft, project natal   

    Microsoft Project Natal.

    When I thought it was only a concept video, I found this video of the actual product demo at E3:

    Very cool.

    By requiring you to move your whole body just to switch channels, I guess the mankind of the future won’t really be fat and almost limb-less humanoid as seen in Wall-E.

    [ Learned from my bro's Twitter - @ufong ]

     

    • kahwee 1:41 pm on June 13, 2009 Permalink

      Nintendo is quick to add that they experimented on this idea and abandoned it. It would be cool if Microsoft succeeds here, I mean it for the sake of humanity.

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