Keyword: microsoft
Microsoft’s final CES keynote was a hit
Final Microsoft keynote Several years ago, Bill Gates stepped away from leading the day-to-day tasks at Microsoft, leaving Steve Ballmer in charge, who has since delivered the annual Microsoft keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show. Ballmer announced last month that 2012 would be their ifnal keynote address and the last time they populate an enormous booth. The company said in ...
The pending death of Internet Explorer 6
Adios, Internet Explorer 6 Beginning in January, the Internet Explorer browser will be updated to the latest version automatically through Windows updates. Although the browser update has been offered through the Windows updates for some time, it required additional action from the users which often prevented an actual update. Now, the process has been automated in a way that moves ...
Windows Phone video ads target families, hipsters alike
New Windows Phone ads Although iPhones and Androids currently reign supreme, there is a growing sentiment that maybe the Windows Phone isn’t such a horrible option, a sentiment that Microsoft has clearly picked up on with their current television campaign, starting with the video above. Could they be the fringe phone that catches people who aren’t die hard iPhone or ...
New 2012 AGBeat media kit available now
- We know you want the most sophisticated audience, and here it is!
Microsoft is secretly building a hybrid social network and discovery site
Microsoft to build a new social network This summer, it was leaked that Microsoft Research was working on a social network and would be a hybrid of search, discovery and social networking, and until TheVerge.com was given early access today, the project has been nearly unmentioned online. TheVerge.com got exclusive screenshots of and early access to Socl.com which appears to ...
Microsoft has reinvented the mouse to be portable and flexible
The future of computing The world gets caught up in the complexities of smartphones, tablets, augmented reality, scan technologies and the like, so it is nice to see Microsoft go back to the drawing board on an existing technology that so many people have opted to simply give up on or ignore. At AGBeat, we all use laptops of various ...
Mac versus PC users – tastes and preferences infographic
I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC. The endless Mac versus PC debate has raged on for years and since 2009, hunch.com has been polling its users and after 700,000 responses has published the results making some pretty big claims. Some of the data here is hard to believe but other points are easy to believe- who do you think ...
Windows 8 sneak peek – what bloggers have failed to show you
Windows 8 leaks Windows 8 has had some details and screenshots leaked that give us some great insight into how the new operating system (OS) will work. And it is impressive. What strikes us the most is that it’s not just two or three tweaks or new colors with a new version number slapped on it, the infrastructure has changed ...
Windows Live Writer: Making Writing Easier
Time Saver I’ve recently become a huge fan of Microsoft’s free tool, the Windows Live Writer. It has awesome functionality and ease-of-use. Live Writer is a tool to allow desktop publishing to various blog platforms. It’s worked effortlessly with WordPress. I know that there are some purist out there, who love to log into the WordPress and mess with the ...
Oh Yeah, Yahoo?
Last week, Microsoft sent an unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion to purchase Yahoo! Over these days, the blogosphere has been buzzing with opinions of what exactly this merger would mean. Today, the Wall Street Journal notes that Yahoo! plans to reject the bid saying that the offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo! I think that’s code for “uh, this purse feels a ...
Microhoo [Counterpoint]
![Microhoo [Counterpoint]](http://agbeat.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/microhoo.jpg)
image credit: tumbleweed Earlier this week, Microsoft placed a bid for Yahoo totaling nearly a bajillion dollars (well, $44.6 billion to be precise). This possible merger conjured up conversation about Google’s monopoly of online information and their hesitancy to release it to the government (which could make them a target for investigation based on principle). Some discussed how amazing ...
Benn Rosales
Conal Campbell
Elijah May
Lani Rosales
Tara Steele
Marti Trewe
Charlene Jimenez
