With all the news on Windows Phone and Windows 8 recently, things had been quite quiet on the Windows Live front. But that doesn’t mean the Windows Live teams have been resting. Bits and pieces have surfaced from the recent …
Rumor: Microsoft and Baidu to reach a search deal in China
According to Business Insider, a Chinese press DoNews.com is reporting that Microsoft is closing in on a deal with Baidu, currently China’s largest search engine, as soon as this coming weekend. According to the site:
…Microsoft is close to
Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector compulsory update, with major bug fixes
Microsoft released an compulsory update to its Outlook Hotmail Connector today to its customers, updating the version number to 14.0.5139.5001. All existing users of the connector will be prompted to update to the newer version in order to continue using …
Bing continues incremental search share rise
The new comScore US search market share numbers are out for April, and they show another incremental (13.9% to 14.1%) rise. The rising trend, starting basically back when Bing was announced in June 2009, is accompanied this time by …
Office Web Apps Service update: Excel, PowerPoint
The Office Web apps Service just got an update. This update brings more features to the Excel and PowerPoint Web apps as well as more optimization for IE9.
New Features:
Excel Web App
You can now insert, delete or …
MSFT-Skype: the interesting tidbits
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Skype had agreed to an unsolicited bid, negotiated to $8.5 billion. The news, of course, came as quite a surprise. Skype was slated to begin proceedings to announce an IPO (Initial Public Offering), to take the …
It’s confirmed: Microsoft to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion
Our previous reports earlier today indicating that Microsoft to acquire Skype has been confirmed, with Microsoft releasing a press release this morning announcing that the internet communications company will be bought for $8.5 billion, the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history. …
Bing Maps: AJAX 7.0 Interactive SDK
To make it easier on developers to find corresponding code and events for use in applications, the Bing Maps team has released an interactive SDK for their AJAX Control 7.0.
The left hand navigation shows you all the major features …
Microsoft to announce Skype deal: “What does it mean?”
According to numerous sources, Microsoft is set to announce a $7 $8 8.5 billion dollar deal to acquire Skype, as soon as early Tuesday morning (apparently a press release is forthcoming at 5am PDT). Even for a company that loses …
Microsoft to buy Skype? $7 billion deal, says WSJ
Yesterday Om Malik reported that negotiations to buy Skype, at first a two horse race between Google and Facebook, had taken an interesting turn with new of interest from Microsoft. Now, a day later, the Wall St. Journal is …
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