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Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch features as an alternative to the mouse.
Sebagai persiapan diterbitkannya varian Microsoft Windows yang terbaru "Windows 7". System Operasi Microsoft Windows 7 datang dengan fitur "Multi-Touch" dengan penggunaan Mouse yang hampir tidak perlu.
Banyak sambutan yang hangat Untuk OS baru ini dibandingkan VISTA OS yang direlease tahun lalu.
Tahun 2010 merupakan target peluncuran Sistem canggih ini, dengan fitur barunya para pengguna dapat melakukan pembesaran (zooming) atau pengecilan (shrink) ukuran foto, mencari rute pada map, mengedit gambar sampai bermain piano tanpa mouse.
"The way you interact with the system will change dramatically," kata Bill gates
Para pengamat Industry mengatakan Microsoft berharap bahwa Windows 7 dapat merubah bagaimana manusia bertingkah laku dengan PC dimasa depan.
"Touch is quickly becoming a common way of interacting with software and devices," disebutkan oleh Windows product manager Chris Flores disebuah postingan blog.
Touch-enabled surfaces dapat diimplementasikan pada banyak alat, seperti : Laptop, Cellphones, Remote controls, GPS dan lainnya.
Ketika dipertanyakan siapakah yang akan lebih dahulu mengimplementasikan Apple atau Microsoft, Mr. Ballmer mengatakan "belum banyak isu yang berkembang. Kami menjual 290 juta PC dan Apple menjual 10 juta PC. Mereka sangat hebat, sama seperti kami dan partner kami. Tetapi ini pekerjaan lain. Mr. Steve (Jobs, Apple Chief Executive) dapat dengan mudah membalikan telapak tangannya dan menjual beberapa model dan saya tetap tidak mau ketinggalan dariNya".
Sementara focus pemerhati pada Konferensi D6 tertuju kepada Windows 7 dan komentar tentang Yahoo!, Ada juga yang menyinggung tentang Mr. Bill Gates mengingat masa nya yang akan hampir berakhir pada 1 July ini.
Mr. Gates, yang sebentar lagi akan pensiun mengatakan ia akan tetap berada di Office di Redmond dan menghabiskan waktu untuk menulis, memikirkan dan bekerja dalam beberapa proyek kecil termasuk generasi Microsoft Office berikutnya.
"I'm very involved in search, the internal development," he said. "We will build the world's best search."
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IronPython 1.0 Beta 1, which was released at the end of last week, is "well integrated" with the rest of the .Net programming framework and allows all .Net libraries to be "easily" accessed by Python programmers, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft's support for Python could help the software giant attract Unix developers to the Windows platform, as it is a commonly used scripting language on the Unix platform, according to Salim Fadhley, who develops Python programs for Unix.
"If Microsoft embraces Python, it could be a big draw for Unix hackers--if our favorite language was supported as a first-tier language by a major software vendor, it would be a major draw to Windows. At the moment, most Python developers hack on Mac and Linux," Fadhley said. "IronPython could be a massive landgrab by Microsoft into the domain of traditional Unix scripting." |
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- Microsoft is doing whatever they can to convert open source users back to Windows, but they failed to tackle the reason people uses open source in the first place. I truely think IronPython is a waste of effort and time.
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Microsoft has settled its lawsuit with rival Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, an expert in speech recognition technology and the man who founded Microsoft's China research lab in the late 1990s.
"The parties have entered into a private agreement that resolves all issues to their mutual satisfaction," Microsoft said in a prepared statement released Thursday afternoon. "The terms of the agreement are confidential and all parties have agreed to make no other statements to the media regarding it."
Google announced in July its plans to hire Lee to head up its China research lab. Microsoft immediately filed suit in Washington against Lee and Google, arguing that Lee was violating a one-year noncompete agreement that was part of his Microsoft contract.
The tug-of-war over Lee was seen as Microsoft's latest attempt to thwart Google's growing influence. The two have increasingly crossed swords in areas such as search, and Mountain View, Calif.-based Google won an important round this week when AOL chose it over Microsoft as a partner. Google and Microsoft were pursuing AOL to help them expand advertising, instant messaging and video offerings. |
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- The rivalry between the now IT giant, M'soft and Google continues.
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Opera has denied the latest takeover rumor spreading across the Internet, saying that it has not had approaches from Microsoft or anyone else.
Rumors surfaced on Friday that Microsoft is close to completing a takeover offer for the Norwegian browser vendor, having outbid Google.
"Our phones have been ringing off the hook," a representative for Opera said Friday. "But it's not true. We have not been bought, and we have not received any offers. It's just a rumor, like the Google rumor last week."
If Microsoft were to buy Opera it would effectively reduce the battle for browsers on Windows PCs to two contenders: Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation.
Opera's market share has languished at less than 1 percent, compared with Firefox's 7.55 percent and Internet Explorer's 86.9 percent. However, Opera's mobile browser is installed on a growing number of mobile devices, and the company says that downloads of its desktop browser quadrupled after it launched the free version 8.5 in October. |
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- The fact that IE has 86.9% is not because it is better than any other browser. The fact that Firefox has 7.55% compare to Opera less than 1% is not because Firefox is better than Opera also.... In the end, its all about business and marketing strategy.
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Granted, it's not exactly the Dayton Peace Accords. But Microsoft's Internet Explorer group and the rival Firefox browser team surprised the technology world last week with a small token of cooperation. To be precise, it was a tiny orange icon. Microsoft worked out an arrangement to use the same symbol that Firefox does to alert people when a Web page makes extra streams of information available for subscription.
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The industry has seen bigger deals, to put it mildly. In fact, describing it as a deal might be a stretch. It was an informal agreement, with no money changing hands, said Sean Lyndersay, lead program manager on Microsoft's Internet Explorer team.
But the mere idea that the two camps were talking caused a stir -- with some analysts wondering whether they might be capable of reaching consensus on more weighty matters, such as standards for the way Web pages are made and displayed.
Microsoft doesn't rule out the possibility of further cooperation. Nor does Mozilla Corp., which distributes the open-source Firefox browser. But to a certain extent, the surprise over the arrangement reflects a misperception about the browser market, Lyndersay said. |
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Microsoft drops Mac IE
2005-12-20 | (Computers and Internet - Internet)
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The minority of Mac users still browsing with Internet Explorer need to consider moving to another browser very quickly, as Microsoft plans to discontinue support for IE beginning Dec. 31.
The news, which came in a statement on Friday, may not have come as a complete surprise to Mac users: Microsoft announced back in June 2003 that it was ending Mac support for IE. Microsoft has not upgraded the software in three years, leaving IE 5--rather than version 6, which is available for Windows--as the most recent version available to Mac users.
While IE for Mac will continue to be available for another month after support ends, Microsoft is advising all users to move to "more recent browsing technology such as Apple's Safari." |
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REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it had filed its first-ever breach-of-contract lawsuits against several members of a software subscription service.
The Redmond-based company alleges that nine people in California, Maryland, New York, Texas and Virginia obtained Microsoft Action Pack Subscriptions, then tried to sell the software on Internet auction sites.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, said the alleged abuses involved falsifying information to receive program benefits and software titles multiple times. |
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Microsoft has started limited testing of Windows Live Messenger, an update that expands the consumer instant messaging software into areas such as Internet phone calling.
The revamp is essentially an expansion of MSN Messenger. It adds a number of features and continues the program's migration from a place to share short text messages into a manager for any number of modes of communication.
Various enthusiast sites, including Mess.be and BetaNews, reported that a private beta of Live Messenger is imminent, while another fan site, Messenger Blog, offered purported screenshots of the new software. Microsoft initially declined to comment on Monday, but the company had promised a beta version would come this month.
Microsoft showed a preview of the instant messaging program at its Live services kickoff early last month.
Late Monday, Microsoft confirmed its plans and offered more details on a joint effort with MCI to allow customers to place calls using Live Messenger. Microsoft said the MCI arrangement is not exclusive, and that the two companies are initially making the calling features available to customers in five countries--the United States, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Once signed up, though, customers will be able to call to and from more than 220 countries. During the beta period, customers will get one hour of free calling from MCI, with rates for more time starting at about 2 cents a minute for calls to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and western Europe during the beta testing period. Final pricing has yet to be determined.
"It's a very, very limited beta," said MSN Product Manager Karin Muskopf. "We're talking tens of thousands (of people)."
The software is expected to be available to more people and in more regions in the first half of next year.
Muskopf would not say when a publicly available test version would be available or when the final version would ship.
"We're going to see how this beta goes," she said. |
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- Everyone wants to follow the foot step of Skype. Even Yahoo is pushing the Internet Phone feature of their YM.
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BANGALORE, India --- Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, announced a contest Friday to identify promising software students in India, offering as top prize an internship with his technical team for a year.
The contest comes amid another in India: the race between low-cost, open-source software and proprietary software, like Microsoft's Windows. The open-source movement, which promotes the Linux operating system, is finding increasing favor over proprietary systems among users and software developers in India.
Addressing 5,000 developers gathered at the Palace Grounds here Friday, Mr. Gates said the nationwide talent hunt, called "Code4Bill," would offer the winner an opportunity to study Microsoft's product development and innovations.
Mr. Gates said the contest would show the high quality of work being done in India. "Some of the best commercial work is happening right here," he said to cheers from the gathered crowd.
Mr. Gates is something of a celebrity in India, where technology outsourcing has provided well-paid jobs and changed the fortunes of thousands of middle-class Indians. But companies like Microsoft worry that many developers are joining the open-source movement. |
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- I wonder when Bill will move to India as his HQ. The cost of running M'soft there should be like 20% of Redmond.
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NEW DELHI - Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $1.7 billion in India and add 3,000 jobs in the country over the next four years, nearly doubling the world’s largest software company’s work force here, Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday.
Microsoft has long viewed India, a country of 1 billion people with a robust economy, as a potentially huge market, and the investment would be one of the single largest by an information technology company in India.
Much of the money would go toward improving the software giant’s research and development capabilities, including the creation of a new facility in the southern city of Bangalore, India’s technology hub, Microsoft said in a statement. “We are keen to grow Microsoft activities in India,” Gates told reporters. |
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Microsoft on Thursday will unveil a beta version of Windows Live Local, which is based on its Virtual Earth aerial image application and integrates local search, mapping, driving directions and yellow pages with a bird's-eye view of major U.S. cities.
The service will offer a 45-degree bird's-eye view covering about one-quarter of the country's population. Cities include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle and Las Vegas.
The bird's-eye images, captured by Pictometry International using low-flying planes, are integrated with road and satellite maps to simulate 360-degree panoramas that can be viewed from any of the four different compass directions. Users can choose between directional views, for instance, to see the front or back sides of buildings, or zoom closer using on-screen navigation tools and preview tiles.
The new service also enables users to create customized maps by adding user-created pushpins, as well as annotate maps and share maps and local search information with others via e-mail by posting them as blogs on MSN Spaces or through MSN Messenger. |
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- There is a great future in online mapping. MapQuest was the pioneer and Yahoo made full used of them. Then Google came along with Google Earth and do what yahoo map cannot, interactivity.
- If any of those internet giants integrate with GPS system, then it will be perfect.
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REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Server(TM) 2003 R2. Based on Microsoft(R) Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 R2 delivers new capabilities and value for customers in the areas of branch-office management, identity and access management, virtualization, data storage and Web platform technologies. The product will be generally available to customers within 60 days.
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"Windows Server 2003 R2 builds on the proven reliability and security of Windows Server 2003 and introduces new functionality and benefits in key workloads and scenarios," said Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Server and Tools at Microsoft. "R2 presents our customers with an array of new ways to reduce cost and complexity, boost end-user productivity, and increase the strategic value of their IT systems."
In a webcast today, Muglia discussed how Windows Server 2003 R2 represents significant progress for the five Windows Server customer promises, areas in which Microsoft is committed to making a fundamental difference in customers' infrastructure over the next five to 10 years. He made several product and partnership announcements within the context of the promises.
The Right Server for the Right Job: Simplifying Branch and Small-Business Management
Remote locations connected to an organizational hub or headquarters over a network account for nearly 25 percent of the installed base of x86 servers in the United States. Such offices are largely reliant on Windows(R) infrastructure and typically require extra resources and management to achieve network and application performance equivalent to that at their headquarters' facilities. Through faster data replication and advanced compression technologies, Windows Server 2003 R2 helps branch offices overcome wide area network bandwidth issues and limited IT resources, resulting in improved branch office server performance and employee productivity.
"We estimate that Windows Server 2003 R2 will eliminate the productivity losses caused by server downtime -- worth an estimated $240,000," said Craig Fletcher, IT operations manager for ARCADIS, a global engineering and construction company with 76 U.S. branch offices. "Companywide backup-related productivity savings amount to an estimated $222,383 per year."
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2) is scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2006. SBS 2003 R2 will help small businesses improve their productivity by providing automated, networkwide patch and update management, increased mailbox limits, SQL Server(TM) 2005 Workgroup Edition technology for SBS 2003 R2 Premium Edition customers, and expanded client access license rights for access to additional Microsoft Exchange 2003 and SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition servers in the SBS 2003 R2 network. |
Thought:
- So when Microsoft gonna pay back $240,000 worth of damage..
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