Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category
Microsoft rolls out new MSN site design
March 10th, 2010AP – “The software maker is saying goodbye to MSN.com’s blue background and its blocks of text links. Instead, starting Tuesday, the site is sporting more white space and fewer categories. Microsoft Corp. hopes to get more Web surfers using its Bing search engine. Microsoft lags behind Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in search share [...]
Microsoft/Yahoo search partnership cleared by EU
February 18th, 2010Reuters – “Under the terms of the partnership struck in July last year, Microsoft’s Bing becomes the search engine for both while Yahoo focuses on attracting big advertisers.”
US DOJ to OK Microsoft/Yahoo search deal -NY Post
February 18th, 2010Reuters – “Within the next 20 days to 30 days the Justice officials are expected to give unconditional approval to the search pact with an announcement to coincide with approval by the European Commission, the daily said.”
FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE
June 14th, 2009New York Post – “You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service, The Post has learned.”
Microsoft’s New Bing—The ‘Decision Engine’
June 8th, 2009Greg Notess – “Microsoft has only been running its own search engine with its own database since February 2005. Now on its third name in just a little longer than 4 years, Bing is finally beginning to offer a more compelling reason to use a Microsoft search engine.”
Why You Can’t Search The Word ‘Sex’ On Bing
June 4th, 2009Reuters – “Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Corp., doesn’t return any result for one of the most searched terms from India: sex. However, if you tell the search engine that you’re from the USA, or any one of the European countries (users can easily change country without even logging in), and [...]
Fear and Loathing in the Online Office Suite
November 14th, 2008Popular Science – “Wherein The Grouse tries to save some dough by abandoning Word.”
Microsoft Research shows new search projects
March 4th, 2008New stuff from Microsoft. I’m waiting for Office to go online…
Students and Copyright: Discipline and Punish?
February 15th, 2008Andy Carvin – “Microsoft has just come out with a new survey on student’s attitudes towards online copyright. The research suggests that very few students have a strong understanding of the issue, but it also makes me wonder just how they’re defining the nature of copyright, and whether it takes into account fair use as [...]
Talking Word Documents
November 13th, 2007Elsa Wenzel – “Microsoft and open-source site SourceForge will offer a free plug-in early next year that will convert Office 2007 files to the DAISY format that translates text to speech.”
More on Book Scanning
October 23rd, 2007Shaun Mullen – “I have more than a passing acquaintance with the question of whether electronic media will replace books because of my day job in a rare book and manuscript library that sits within a larger library with nearly 3 million bound volumes and millions of electronic resources.”
