Microsoft

In our never ending quest to learn more about Microsoft and what it’s like inside the company, we spent a half hour chatting with a former high level employee at the company yesterday. There’s two basic problems at the company, according to this ex-Microsoftie. The management style is all screwed up, and there’s just too many people working there. An entertainment business is different from a mobile business, which is different from enterprise software business....

Microsoft has shut down Bing Cashback, according to a blog post. Bing Cashback, which is a program that allows users to save money when they purchase items found using Bing search, will be shut down on July 30, 2010. Bing team tweeeted just now (25min ago at the time of writing this post) - http://twitter.com/bing/status/15431895368 The blog post says that Cashback is being shut down due to lack of adoption. Cashback offers will still be available until the end of July and users will have a year to redeem any money they’ve earned through the program....

NVIDIA 3D Vision Now Supports High-Definition 3D Internet Video COMPUTEX 2010—TAIPEI—May 31, 2010—NVIDIA today demonstrated 3D video streamed live over the Internet using an NVIDIA® 3D VisionTM PC, Microsoft Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming technology. The demonstration, which streamed the music video “We Are the World” 3D, at a press conference at Computex, comes at a time when consumer interest in seeing 3D movies is at its highest level ever....

According to sources, the next version of iPhone OS, which is set to release this June will have Bing as its default search engine in Mobile Safari. Microsoft and Apple have reportedly been in talks over a possible search deal since January of this year, but since then there has been no real news on this. After all the recent conflicts over Android, the removal of Google Search from iPhone shouldn’t come as a surprise....

Now that Microsoft has released Office 2010 Final build officially to public, you can download the 60-day trial version from the link http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx After installing it, user will have initial 30 days of free evaluation period before having to activate the product for lifetime continuous usage. Now to extend this expiry period to 6 months, we have to REARM the product. (Just follow the steps below instead of searching for REARM!...

Project Natal is a controller free gaming and entertainment experience by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 Video game platform. Experience it at http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/projectnatal/ The latest scoop in the series confirms that Microsoft plans to launch Natal in October this year. This was confirmed by Syed Bilal Tariq speaking to GamerTagRadio who happens to be the Marketing Manager for Microsoft Saudi Arabia. “[The launch of Project Natal] is going to be somewhere in October and we will be in a position to confirm the date at E3, which is in June, but definitely it is going to be October 2010....

Microsoft today announced the launch of a new beta Facebook app from FUSE Labs called “Docs”, also available at docs.com Built on Microsoft Office 2010, the Docs app enables Facebook users for the first time to create and share Microsoft Office documents directly with their Facebook friends, using the Office tools they already know. Discover. Create. Share. Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends....

From Microsoft News Center: Kicking off a global launch consisting of more than 150 developer-focused events, Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. The company also announced that Silverlight 4 will release to Web (RTW) later in the week. Together, these technologies simplify the entire development process, enabling developers to target new platforms and build high-quality applications. Developers will be able to download Visual Studio 2010 and ....

A Chinese website has posted IE 9 preview screenshots and said it will use the Metro UI, the same which is used in Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 series interface.

Microsoft is testing a microblogging service – Office Talk that is much like Twitter. OfficeTalk is being developed by OfficeLabs, the MS lab for testing internally developed ideas. The service looks almost identical to Twitter. Few words from the official website: “Ever wish you could share information broadly within your organization without emailing everyone? Ever wish you could keep the pulse of what people in your organization think is interesting? Microblogging has that potential....