Google previously announced plans to merge data across all of its services in order improve the overall experience for the end users. Microsoft has accused Google of violating user privacy by reading their emails to generate ads on the page.
If you still use Hotmail, and I am one of those rare individuals, then you’ll soon be seeing a change in the ads displayed alongside your email.
Bing launched as a ‘decision engine’, with Microsoft trying to shift the attention away from Google’s ‘search engine’. Now Microsoft is upping its game.
Microsoft has ported Windows Phone 7’s tiles to Xbox LIVE as well as a host of new interactive features. The latest software upgrade allows you to use voice commands to find your favorite shows, pause them while you take a break and even save them to be shown using a different console.
A one-stop shop full of all the daily deals on offer at any given moment? Yes please. Bing me the goodies as Bing Deals with the hard work.
What can you say when the largest software company in the world expresses its ongoing fondness for one of the major social media players. Well, you could say “Get a room, you two!” which is what one twitter follower did say.
Should Microsoft sell off Bing, its Google-baiting search (or decision) engine? Maybe it should, but it won’t.
Unlike Google Microsoft is still very much present in China. In fact, thanks to a new pact with Baidu it’s more involved in the country than ever before.
Microsoft wrapped up its E3 press conference earlier this week and as rumored the company is rolling out the foundation for some sort of IPTV service. The details aren’t clear yet but it appears that Microsoft has big ambitions for the Xbox 360 console.
Microsoft just came off a successful third quarter due to great Kinect and Office sales. In addition, Bing has been gaining some traction in the U.S. with it now accounting nearly 30 percent of the searches. It appears to be good news all around for Microsoft. However, despite the growth in its search market share, Bing has been burning a hole in Microsoft’s pocket.
Microsoft is indeed hemorrhaging money from its Online Services division. But at the moment that doesn’t actually matter a damn.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek recently sponsored an event with Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft at the 92nd Street Y in New York last evening. Allen indicated that Microsoft will need to “accelerate” its product development to compete with other companies.
Microsoft has released Bing for iPad, its first app for the Apple tablet. And it’s been universally lauded as both visually stunning and fantastically user-friendly.
Microsoft’s latest marketing ploy has been drawing unfavorable attention as it involves the recent tragedy in Japan. The company has been accused of using social networking site, Twitter to promote its search service Bing.
It’s cute when companies buddy up to one another, even if it is purely to further their own ends.
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