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Microsoft is advocating ‘Sexting’ via Kin Promo Advert

Microsoft is advocating 'Sexting' via Kin Promo Advert

I just watched the promotional video of ‘Kin’ on Daily Telegraph and just feeling disgusted. This ad is clearly targeting the teenagers and showing how teenagers can sexting using Kin mobile.

Watch Windows 7 TV Commercials

Watch Windows 7 TV Commercials

In my opinion, Microsoft is far away from Apple or Google when it comes to talk about TV advertisement quality. I’m just bored to see their boring tv commercials; Windows Vista, cheap laptop and Internet Explorer commercials. It’s not far when Microsoft is finally releasing the new OS, Windows 7. After Vista’s flop, it’s a [...]

Microsoft to unveil free anti-virus software

Microsoft to unveil free anti-virus software

Microsoft Corp is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for personal computers that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc. A Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday that the world’s biggest software maker is testing an early version of the product with its own employees. Microsoft would “soon” make [...]

What’s next – Kumo or Bing?

Till today, Microsoft’s advertising war was limited with only Apple, now they are going to declare a new war against the mighty GOOGLE! There was a rumor that Microsoft’s new search engine might be called as Kumo.com. But in a news post, media website AdAge said, that Microsoft may decide to call their search engine [...]

Here Comes Another Poor Microsoft’s Laptop Haunters Ad

In the 4th edition of Microsoft’s Laptop Haunters ad campaign, Microsoft has paid money to Sheila to buy a laptop under $2000 and as usual she chose a PC and this time she chose HP laptop. I don’t understand why all this actors or so-called real-life characters ask silly questions all the time. According to [...]

Microsoft’s pubCenter Beta goes public … for US only

To beat internet advertising leader Google, Microsoft’s latest effort pubCenter Beta is now open for public according to according to pubCenter blog. At the moment on US citizen with valid tax ID and address can use the service compared with Google Adsense. As a contextual advertising program, Microsoft PubCenter will be offering websites an opportunity [...]

Economic downturn hits Google

If someone thought Google was invincible after making profit in last fiscal year, they are all wrong. Google is planning to cut about 200 googlers from sales and marketing department from around the world. According to a blog post, Google will give each employee enough time and opportunity to find another post, or another location [...]

Yahoo Search Shares Increase as Google Slips

A recent ComScore study shows an increase in Yahoo Search market share of .5% in January 2009 over December 2008, giving Yahoo a market share of US based searches of about 21%. Google on the other hand, showed a slight decrease in market share over the same period, losing the same 0.5% that Yahoo gained, [...]

Microsoft stepped into retail business

At last Microsoft has learnt to come closer to its customers! In an announcement, Microsoft, the software gaint will be launching its own retail chain of stores to showcase it’s products to the customers. In particular, the company mentioned a desire to better articulate and demonstrate the advantages of its products. Additionally, Microsoft hopes “to [...]

At Last … Microsoft Office 14 goes online

In an interview, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop said that the browser-based editing capabilities are being developed in conjunction with the next version of Office, known as Office 14. Microsoft won’t say when that version will arrive, but Elop said that a technology preview of the browser-based products will come later this year and [...]