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Windows Phone 7
Posted in Computers and Internet on February 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Microsoft Office in the Web
Posted in Computers and Internet on December 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Microsoft has released the Office Web companions integrated with SkyDrive in a limited beta.
Using this we would be able to View/Edit/Share online, Office documents including Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Onenote
BTW this is just a beta and leaves a few things desired, for instance, embedding, with inplace viewing, the document in any site (aka SlideShare).
Bing Images on my Blog!
Posted in Computers and Internet on December 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
You must have seen the Bing‘s home page with a beautiful background that changes daily.
From today the daily Bing image would also be seen on my Blog right above the blog posts. Wrote a small peice of asp.net to fetch the image and add it to my space!
Explore Bing Search at: http://www.bing.com/
DISCLAIMER: This is just a small proof of concept application and no copyright violation is intended.
EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment
Posted in Computers and Internet on June 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The (limited) Indian IT Landscape
Posted in Computers and Internet on June 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This Saturday I went to a seminar organized by CDAC with focus on Open Source and Information Security. The seminar’s content was primarily focussed on students but I had the following takeaways from the meeting:
- There is a strong feeling among the community that for Open Source to win the Proprietary has to lose. This feeling is to the extent of hatred of anything from Microsoft (Windows, Office, IIS) and Adobe(Photoshop).
- The CDAC is implementing a customized version of Linux (BOSS) and they have plans of widespread adoption throughout the country (at least in the government space)
- CDAC already has courses on Embedded Systems and Mobile development, which they run in their centers and other educational institutes (like Anna University), and they plan to include Andriod for mobile development starting this year.
- Not surprisingly, Google is a de facto for online space, awareness of Live/Bing is near to zero.
- Majority still use Windows though pirated (since there is no other alternative) but find alternatives for other programs from Open Source. Office and Photoshop were the most widely pirated applications among the group, no one has ever bought software
- People talk a lot about Open Sources, but are not completely aware of all the strings of open source licenses
In general, there is a lot of noise of stupidity in the long tail of Indian IT community who inadvertently do not have the facts right and work more on conviction driven by their group and limited online activity.
Bing!
Posted in Computers and Internet on May 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Bing Is Not Google!
Bing It On!
Posted in Computers and Internet on May 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
It’s here! And it’s Bing’O!!
The new Microsoft Search Engine has been announced today and its called Bing!
http://www.decisionengine.com/ | http://www.bing.com
UPDATE: Sadly though, all the juicy aggregation features of the new search engine isn’t going to be available to us here in India 😦
Year 2002 IE4 Release: IEs prank on Netscape and Netscape’s last laugh!
Posted in Computers and Internet on April 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
From Reuters:
Microsoft Plays Prank on Netscape after Bash
06:49 a.m. Oct 02, 1997 Eastern
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuter) - A party for 1,000
people Tuesday night apparently was not enough for some
Microsoft Corp. employees. They had to top off the night with a
prank on Internet software rival Netscape Communications Corp.
Netscape employees found a gigantic blue stage prop in the
shape of an "e" in front of their company's front door Wednesday
morning.
The night before, the same 10-by-12-foot stage prop -- which
represents the logo for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or IE,
browser -- was spotted at a Microsoft bash in San Francisco.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and about 1,000 industry
executives were celebrating the launch of the newest version of
Internet Explorer.
A group of people were seen dropping off the "e" in front of
Netscape's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., about 1:30
a.m. Wednesday, said Netscape spokeswoman Chris Holten. A card
attached to the prop read, "From the IE team," she said.
"It seems awfully immature to resort to fraternity tactics
to draw attention," Holten said. "We're winning the battle. It's
something you'd expect from a startup, not the largest software
company in the world."
A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment.
Netscape and Microsoft have
been battling to dominate the
market for Internet browsers for
the past two years. By most
industry estimates, Netscape has
about three-quarters of the
market with its Navigator browser,
but Microsoft is rapidly
gaining with each new release of
Internet Explorer.
Netscape had the last laugh
in the prank, though. Company
employees put their 12-foot
mascot — a green Godzilla-like
foam creature dubbed "Mozilla"
— on top of the "e".
Mozilla held a placard that read,
"Netscape 72, Microsoft 18," referring
to recent market share data.
Whats cooking at Goog
Posted in Computers and Internet on December 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Hands on Surface
Posted in Computers and Internet on December 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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