Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Joint Venture of Nokia and Microsoft
Nokia has shocked everyone with the news of tying up with Microsoft regarding the mobile phone software. In other words, the mobile phone King has accepted its defeat as well as failure of the Symbian operating system. Form now onwards, Nokia is all set to adopt the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system in its smartphones instead of the good old Symbian!!
It implies the integration of Bing Search as well as Xbox Live into Nokia phones, and Ovi Maps incorporation into Bing Search.
Now, Nokia has also announced that it has plans to step into the Tablet arena! We will have to wait for its next announcement to know whether Nokia will stay with Microsoft while producing tablets, or will choose some other platform!!
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Google the greatest internet joint had jumped into the hardware industry with its new Nexus one phone that it released some months ago and now the largest software’s master Microsoft is also reported to be coming to the hardware competition with its own new Smartphone.
It is expected by some experts that Microsoft is going to being an Asus build official Windows 7 series device to bring a tough competition for the Google Nexus one phone. We can expect Asus Corporation in this regard because at the Mobile World Congress held on Feb. 15, the new mobile OS was revealed on the Asus handsets.
Search Engine Wars
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Yahoo and Microsoft have being the rivals of each other for the couple of years and there were no signs on the international levels which can give this signal of both the company’s collaboration but some behind the scene mishaps have lead the old rivals to get together with each other and compete against the internet giant Google which has a very strong reputation of blowing away its competitors in the search engine’s war.
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Microsoft is bringing some new strategies to track out the hackers who are using cheat activation codes for using Microsoft Windows 7. It has been notified that Microsoft will soon give a new update to the Windows 7 users that will detect the illegal copies installed on the system and over 70 different activation cracks will be used for this purpose.
The update of Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) is named as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and this will be provided on the official website of the company on Feb 17 and the status of this one will be an optional upgrade which will come via Windows update later this month.
Windows 7
Windows 7 one of the latest products by Microsoft has not only taken the technological bounds of the company to new heights but it has also increased the net profit to almost double. Yesterday the company announced that a very strong increase in the net income and revenue for the second quarter for 2010 has been seen.
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The profit in the net income is $6.66 billion which is about 60 % from the same period a year after. The results which have been revealed are even far above the expert’s expectations and it is really the best ever success earned by any product of Microsoft.
Along with Windows 7 the company also released Windows server 2008 R2 which also enjoyed a very modest increase with $3.8 billion in revenue, up from $3.75 in the previous year. According to the official reports almost 60 million licenses were sold in this quarter which is just more than extra ordinary.
