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Intel's new processor in a word, it would be thin or to perfectly say very thin
The Core M, based on the chipmaker's new Broadwell silicon, debuted on its own Llama Mountain design at the Computex conference in Taipei last week. Llama Mountain is an impossibly thin (may even thinner than the iPad Air) hybrid that bodes well for upcoming two-in-ones running Windows 8.1
Not sure about the Intel marketing the Llama devices but an example in ASUS has only 0.29-inches (7.3mm) thick. It's a Windows 8.1 design that Intel and Asus collaborated on, according to a source familiar with the product. The Chi comes with the same 12.5-inch 2,560x1,440-pixel resolution display as Llama Mountain.
It comes with Intel's new Broadwell chip design. the circuits are smaller and cooler as its the company's most advanced manufacturing process of 14 nanometers, may be even chip M doesn’t need a fan also.
Microsoft plans to roll out a real-time language translation feature for its popular Internet phone service by the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday
In a company blog post published in conjunction with the demonstration, the feature was the result of a decade spent researching speech recognition, automatic translation, and machine learning technologies.
Skype Translator currently supports about 40 languages and is expected to roll out later this year as a Windows 8 beta.lets hope to meet new people soon!!!!.
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See how Windows Phone 7.5 makes it easier to stay close to the people who matter. Now you can organize friends into Groups, track conversations across texts, Facebook and IMs in one place, and much more. Be among the first to check out some of the best new Windows Phone features
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The new Microsoft Touch Mouse combines the virtues of the old familiar mouse – which has been continually optimized since the 1960s – with multi-touch gestures. Now available online and in retail stores in late September, the new mouse offers the millions of people who use Windows 7 a natural way to navigate the operating system, said Scott Rockfeld, director of product management for Microsoft Hardware.
One finger allows users to scroll 360 degrees through the document they’re in.
Two fingers allow them to manage the active window they’re using and perform tasks such as maximizing and minimizing windows or snapping them left or right.
Three fingers allow users to manage their whole desktop by switching between different tasks or clearing all open windows.
A flick of the thumb allows users to move forward and back in programs such as Internet Explorer, PowerPoint, and Windows Photo Viewer.
Benko said he was excited to bring touch to a much broader range of devices. Touch is an increasingly popular way of interacting with technology, but it’s primarily taken hold in small handheld devices. “For desktop scenarios with large, vertical screens, you’d need gorilla arms to go longer than 10 minutes through touch alone,” he said. “In terms of optimizing the effort of controlling the real estate you have on large screens, it’s really hard to beat the mouse.”
“The Touch Mouse is our stake in the ground with multi-touch PC input devices, and it’s really just the beginning of things to come,” Benko said.
The product highlights the value Microsoft Research can deliver, Benko added. “This is a good example of how the algorithms and ideas and prototypes developed in research directly translate and make certain things possible for product teams that wouldn’t have been possible,” he said. “You could not make this mouse without the software.”
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Microsoft announced that Sudoku and Minesweeper are now available for Windows Phone.
Both games are available in the U.S. Marketplace for Windows Phone at no cost, supported by advertisements. The games are also Xbox LIVE enabled and come complete with achievements and power ups. Microsoft describes both games as “two of the most immensely popular puzzle games of all time.”
Minesweeper
Your goal is to clear minefields using flags to safely mark potential mines. Sweep your way through Classic and Speed modes, each with as many as four different levels of difficulty. Earn powerups as you play to help you navigate the board and unlock achievements for your LIVE account. But, be careful – one wrong move will detonate the entire board.
Sudoku
“Sudoku,” a numbers-based logic game, comes with Classic and Lightning modes and offers hours of entertainment. Earn powerups and LIVE achievements and put your brain to the test!
Microsoft also revealed that Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 is now available for $2.99 as part of its “deal for the week” promotion for Windows Phone 7. The software giant plans to make IonBallEX available for just $2.99 from next week.
On a news Mozilla confirms the release of Firefox 6 is on Tuesday that is August 16th.
Firefox is all set for Windows, Linux,Mac and Android platforms.
Microsoft announced some feature updates to its Bing Mobile service.
Mall Maps and Map Search have both been added to Bing for Mobile Browse. Mall Maps has been available on the web desktop version of Bing for over six months and allows Bing users to discover stores inside Mall spaces on Bing Maps. Microsoft’s collection of over 400 shopping malls is now available from the Bing Mobile m.bing.com site.
Microsoft has also included Map Search in its latest update. Bing Maps mobile now has a split view for when users search within Maps. Bing Maps users can pan around the map and hit refresh in their browser to get results listed on the position of the map. “The map highlights the business locations as you scroll through the list making it easy to see where all the options are located,” explained Bing Maps program manager Roberto Bojorquez Alfaro in a blog post.
Mall Maps are available immediately for mobile devices that support HTML5, including Android, iPhone and RIM devices. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 includes Mall Maps directly within the Bing maps interface
Microsoft’s Office Division is celebrating more than a year of success with its’ 2010 products: Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and Lync. Businesses are deploying Office 2010 eighty percent faster than Office 2007, and SharePoint, Exchange and Lync have all experienced double-digit growth since their launch.
It’s been one year since the release of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Get the latest on how customers are getting the most out Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync.In fact, business customers are deploying Office 2010 five times faster than they deployed Office 2007. Office 2010 is also the fastest-selling version of Office ever. And nearly 50 million people worldwide use Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share their documents from anywhere with a browser and an Internet connection.
Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all cash deal. The deal closed a few hours ago.. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after the announcement is likely to come out later today or tomorrow morning, according to several reports. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft is said to be a big champion of the deal, the largest in the history of the company. Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates will host a press conference in a few hours.
SKYPE CEO Tony Bates
It won’t surprise me if Microsoft comes in for major heat on this decision to buy Skype — and the software company could always botch this purchase, as it often does when it buys a company. The Skype team is also full of hired guns who are likely to move on to the next opportunity rather than dealing with the famed Microsoft bureaucracy.
I also don’t believe that Facebook and Google were serious buyers. Google, with its Google Voice offering, doesn’t really need Skype. In essence, I feel that Microsoft was bidding against itself. Even then, I personally think this is a bet worth taking, especially for a company that has been left out in the cold for so long.
Why Did Skype Want To Sell?
Skype had filed for an IPO and was going to do about a billion dollars in revenues and was on its way to becoming profitable. So why sell? Silver Lake and eBay were both getting impatient and wanted to lock in their profits. Some sources also believe that Skype’s revenues had stalled.
The company had bet heavily on is video sharing service. The premium version of video calling and sharing was a way for Skype to increase its average revenue per user and move into the enterprise market. However, given Skype’s DNA is that of a consumer Internet company, the challenges are not a surprise.
founders of SKYPE
So Who Made What?
Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the co-founders with their 14-percent stake, take home about $1.19 billion. Damn, these guys know how to double dip!
Back to the Past: Bill Buxton Shows Off 35 Years of Tech Devices,Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton has unboxed, unearthed, and organized his personal collection of interactive tech devices gathered over the last 35 years. The collection will be on display at an international interaction design conference this week and could end up as a display in a museum.
Buxton has accumulated hundreds of items that struck him as interesting, unusual or important to the evolution of interactive devices – watches, keyboards, mice, an electronic drum set, a 60-year-old transistor radio whose design inspired the iPod, a Nintendo Power Glove, several Etch-A-Sketches, and even the first so-called “smart” phone – controlled by a touch-screen - first shown in 1993, 14 years before smart phones exploded onto the scene.
A look at 35 years of collection:
Input Devices
Buxton's selection of input devices includes (clockwise from upper left) an original telegraph keyset; the Green Eye Mouse – the first mouse Microsoft sold; the Swiss mouse, with a roller mechanism designed by yes, a watch maker; and Data Hand, which aimed to reduce arm fatigue by enabling each finger to choose a character by selecting from a radial menu. View the entire collection online.
Touch Devices
Touch devices in the collection include (clockwise from upper left) the Arc Touch, which morphs from flat to arch; a touch controller Buxton used in two-handed input studies back in 1985; the UnMouse stand-alone touchpad; and the iGesture Pad, created by a small company that started making multi-touch touchpads and was later bought by Apple. View the entire collection online.
Frog Pad
The FrogPad is a one-hand keyboard available for the left or right hand. The left and right keyboard versions are mirror images of each other. View the entire collection online.
Swiss Champ XAVT
This Swiss Army Knife is the equivalent of a bloated application, Buxton says. "It has so many great additions that it is useless — except to collectors like me who find extreme cases of bad design charming or useful." Visit the collection today.
Explore the Collection Online
Bill Buxton's vast array of tech devices from the past 35 years is available to experience online via an extensive visual database built using Microsoft PowerPivot. Visit the collection today.
“I’m just bad at throwing stuff out,” joked Buxton last week, as the movers came by to transport his entire collection to Vancouver, British Columbia, for display at the 2011 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) this week.
“A lot of people, even people working in the field, have no idea these objects exist,” said Buxton, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research. “Those of us in the Internet Age with the most access to search engines have the least knowledge about our past. We’re so obsessed with the future that we only look forwards. I’ve been collecting specifically to counter that – to show how deep the roots go.”
A leading expert in human-computer interactions, Buxton frequently teaches, speaks and writes on the subject of natural user interface, or NUI, in which technology incorporates more human-friendly means of “input” such as touch, face- and voice-recognition, and movement sensors.
“One of the great things about Bill is the way he shares his enthusiasm for design and technology with other people,” said Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. “It’s infectious. It also reflects his enthusiasm for teaching. Bill has been one of the most influential people in the field of design and human-computer interaction for many years, and the collection is really representative of his love and dedication to the field which he’s impacted so much.”
origin:Microsoft News Center
On a news Messenger connect next will support OAuth 2.0, Microsoft has promised that the next iteration of Messenger connect will be designed to play nice with version 2.0 of OAuth by default.
As Dare Obasanjo said “The Windows Live team is pleased to announce the support for OAuth 2.0 in the next version of developer platform, Messenger Connect, which allows developers to build sites and applications that use data from the Windows Live network,”
“This development builds on an existing commitment to open web standards shown in the current version through our implementation of ActivityStrea.ms, OAuth Wrap, Portable Contacts, & OData.”
Messenger Connect already offers developers the possibility to leverage OAuth, and taken into consideration the company’s latest announcement, the same will be valid for the next version of the standard.
Just as it is the case with OpenID, OAuth is about providing access to third-parties to specific content. However, there’s a fundamental difference between the two, and it’s related to identity.
With OAuth, web developers can take advantage of an API which permits them to offer services to users, but without requiring them to share their credentials.
“OAuth provides a method for clients to access server resources on behalf of a resource owner (such as a different client or an end-user),” reads an excerpt of OAuth’s description.
“It also provides a process for end-users to authorize third-party access to their server resources without sharing their credentials (typically, a username and password pair), using user-agent redirections.”
Yesterday Microsoft and Nokia together announced that they have signed the definitive agreement for strategic partnership to build a new global mobile ecosystem that is unlike any other. It’s a bold claim.
As a result of negotiations and discussions, they have aligned their teams and assets, and clearly see the potential to change the way we use our mobile devices for the better. In the coming years they said aggressively work to take Nokia products using Windows Phone to new geographies, at new price points and sharing new experiences for customers around the world to enjoy.
As new partners, Microsoft and Nokia recognize the importance of having a strong and growing ecosystem. And, that ecosystem is fueled by our three favorite words. Developers! Developers! Developers! Since announcing there intention to partner, the number of Windows Phone apps submitted on a daily basis has almost doubled, further illustrating the level of excitement and interest among the community for Windows Phone.
The unique innovation and differentiation across hardware, software and services as the Nokia products using Windows Phone roll-out, delivering consumer experiences in mapping, search, gaming, social media, advertising and productivity. Along the way, you can expect an increased focus on mobile business and productivity scenarios that build on Microsoft’s cloud services, new features for Symbian, and new capabilities for Windows Phone devices.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president for Microsoft Business Solutions, today opened a sold-out Convergence 2011 to more than 9,000 attendees, demonstrating how companies can use Microsoft Dynamics to maximize the value of their existing technology investments, remain agile as market conditions change and ultimately become dynamic businesses that can win in any environment.
Building on the success of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, the company revealed a path for its ERP customers to move to the cloud with the next major releases of Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions, which will run on the Windows Azure platform. Customers will be able to move to the cloud on their own terms. The Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions will bring the same benefits in the cloud as they do on-premises.In addition to resources such as the profitability guide, independent software vendors (ISVs) and partners will also be able to showcase Microsoft Dynamics cloud-enabled vertical solutions, add-ons and services on the Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace. This makes it simple for customers to try and buy solutions that fit their specific business needs and gives partners an opportunity to reach a broader audience and grow their business.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 frees customers from the electronic concrete that has plagued the ERP industry for so long,” Tatarinov said. Customers want flexible yet cost- effective business applications that work the way they do instead of being forced to adapt to the software..
In keeping with the level of commitment to innovation across the entire Microsoft Dynamics portfolio of ERP and CRM solutions, Microsoft also announced the following:
Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011, which gives businesses a faster time to value through integration with Microsoft Project 2010, is now generally available.
The on-premises version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, which delivers familiar, intelligent and connected experiences to users across an organization, is now generally available. More than 27,000 customers and 1.7 million users are benefiting from Microsoft Dynamics CRM worldwide, including companies such as American National Standards Institute, Hard Rock International and Sandri Companies.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2, which offers customers built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and enhanced data visualizations capabilities, was delivered ahead of schedule in December 2010.
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2, which increases customer agility through significant business intelligence capability enhancements, will be generally available May 1, 2011
Microsoft Corp. and thePlatform today announced that the companies have integrated Microsoft’s leading digital media technologies, including Microsoft PlayReady and Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming, into thePlatform’s mpx video management system. With this integration, premium video providers can deliver protected, high-definition (HD) Web video for both in-home and remote viewing experiences. The solution provides full offline and streaming capabilities across a broad ecosystem of devices spanning Windows-based PCs and Macs.
Microsoft PlayReady DRM Technology Enables Seamless Access to Premium Content
Microsoft PlayReady technology is widely supported in the industry and draws on the experience gained from more than a decade of investment that Microsoft has made in the development of digital rights management (DRM) technology. By offering Microsoft PlayReady, thePlatform offers content protection technology for publishers on Windows-based PCs and Macs. thePlatform’s support of Microsoft PlayReady underscores its benefits as a flexible, reliable and scalable content protection technology.
Bringing HD Media Experiences Online
By implementing IIS Smooth Streaming, a feature of IIS Media Services, thePlatform’s customers can present optimal experiences based on available network bandwidth and device capabilities. IIS Smooth Streaming is a form of dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP for delivering live and on-demand content that adjusts video quality automatically and scales massively on content distribution networks. It provides a high-quality viewing experience, which can lead to longer engagement times and makes possible the delivery of full HD 1080p media experiences. thePlatform is also using Transform Manager, which is a server-side transformation engine built into IIS Media Services, to streamline production workflow for content companies by enabling solutions such as encoding once and simultaneously delivering multiple formats.
Additional information about thePlatform is available at http://www.thePlatform.com. Additional information about Microsoft is available at http://www.microsoft.com.
The debut of Kinect and smash-hit games like “Fable III” and “Halo: Reach,” drove Xbox to the biggest year in its history in 2010
Last week at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft ended the year with 50 million Xbox 360 consoles sold worldwide since launch, 30 million active Xbox LIVE members and 8 million Kinect sensors sold in just the first 60 days on the market.
December Xbox 360 console sales remained strong, with 1.9 million units sold, our biggest month ever in the history of Xbox 360.During December, three of the top 10 console game titles were for Xbox 360, including “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” “Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood” and “Kinect Sports.”
Xbox 360 was the only console to show year-over-year growth at 42 percent, making it the fastest-growing console in 2010. With $6.2 billion spent at retail, more money was spent on Xbox 360 than any current generation console in 2010.
Due to hit the market in 2011: the highly anticipated game title “Gears of War 3,” new Kinect entertainment experiences such as Hulu Plus and Avatar Kinect and more….
Microsoft Hardware for Business makes a range of Microsoft Hardware products available for purchase in increments of five, with each product individually packaged and licensed for easier distribution and customer support. The line makes it easy for IT professionals, business owners and distributors to purchase Microsoft Hardware devices for themselves and their customers.
The line includes a range of Microsoft Hardware products packaged for volume purchasing by businesses, such as the recently launched LifeCam Studio for high-definition video calls, saving businesses money and time on travel, and the Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, providing users with ultimate comfort.
Microsoft backs these products with a worldwide limited hardware warranty. A full list of products and more information are available at http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/business/business.mspx.
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