Microsoft

Below are links to articles posted in Microsoft.

MSN Portal Revamped – Now Clean & Sleek

Posted by Saad as Microsoft Leave a Comment

Microsoft has recently revamped their old school MSN portal and gave it a very clean and sleek look. I must say that it does look a lot like Yahoo because of the way the site has been structured and also the blend of social features (twitter, facebook & email) right at the homepage.
This is [...]

  • Posted on 4th November 2009

BingTweets – Real Time Twitter + Bing Search

Posted by Saad as Bing, Microsoft, twitter 3 Comments

Bing along with Federated Media has developed quite a nifty service called BingTweets, which basically allows you to keep an eye on the twitter trending topic in a more detailed and real-time manner. Twitter trending topic by itself is not exactly very useful as it doesn’t really give you a context of what is happening. [...]

IE8 Vomiting Commercial goes Viral

Posted by Saad as Advertising, Microsoft 3 Comments

Yesterday I was listening to my favorite Tech Podcast – TWIT (This Week in Tech) and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla was one of the guest on that show along with Tom Merritt and few others.
Anyway Veronica was talking about a Internet Explorer 8 advertisement, where a lady vomits over and over again after watching [...]

Microsoft Office 2010, The Movie

Posted by Saad as Microsoft 1 Comment

I never really understood the way Microsoft handles their PR. They spent millions on advertising when they launched Bing (Microsoft’s Search Engine), and now it looks like they are out with yet another promo video, but this time for Microsoft Office 2010!
By reading some of the comments about this video, it felt like everyone [...]

Bing Translator

Posted by Saad as Bing, Microsoft 2 Comments

Do you ever come across a situation where you need to quickly translate a page or some text which is not in the language that you speak? Then you should really give the new Bing Translator – http://www.bing.com/translator a try.
Bing Translator currently supports about 15 languages including – English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Arabic, German, [...]