Picture of the Month: Chrome’s hidden Windows connection!
November 3rd, 2008
Via Labnol
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RIP Vista? All eyes on Windows 7!
October 30th, 2008
Though I agree with our Twitter friend that the whole Vista Sux thing has been overrated and is more of a perception. But its certain that consumers are sticking to XP and waiting for something better! Most notebook buyers @ SAPL demand a XP installation instead of Vista that comes bundled. So is MS looking to revive Vista or move one?
The enterprise adoption of Vista is as low as 10%, and we sure know that XP did beat Vista for the Olympics games at least. And since almost a year now we are hearing about Windows 7. Touch functionality and faster / more responsive OS is what Microsoft is targeting with Windows 7. Microsoft employees working in Bangalore have had the opportunity to view Win7 pretty closely since a long time and their initial reviews are “WoW”.
On the other hand Microsoft is also keeping the market buzz pretty live, with Windows7 demos to word to device makers to get Win7 certification on time they are certainly working overtime on it! Rumors are that Windows 7 might hit the markets as soon as 2009, but a more realistic and accepted date is sometime in 2010.
With the growing competition from Open source OS’s and Mac, Windows certainly will start to feel the heat if Windows 7 doesn’t click as expected.
Also Read: Windows Vista No longer Matters
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Legal issues for Google / Yahoo and MS in India
August 14th, 2008
Google India is facing a defamation case filed by Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects on a series of articles published on Blogger. The articles were about the companies mines in Mozambique. The high court has asked Google to provide details about the blogger.
“In its petition filed, Gremach said a series of articles titled “Toxic Writer” were posted on Google’s blogging site between January and February. The article amounted to a “hate campaign” against the company, according to Gremach.” - ET
While the first incident in India pertaining a blogger (yeah, for some Orkut was the only known platform), this comes at a time when increasing number of bloggers are being tamed by the authorities across the world (mainly in oppressive regimes).
In a second case Google India, Yahoo and Microsoft have been submitted a notice by the supreme court based on a petition seeking a ban on popular online search engines promoting sex selection techniques (displaying ads). While the petetioner claims that the sites were brought to the notice of the concerned authorities, no action was taken.
Currently Google only allows ‘Family Safe’ Ads in India, and it has previously assured the supreme court on strict implementation of the ‘Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act’.
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Pagerank competitor from Miscrosoft: BrowseRank
July 26th, 2008
An important factor in Google Search success was the PageRank (PR). PageRank gives importance to the pages depending on the number and quality of incoming links they have. Microsoft’s new technology BrowseRank intends to capitalize on PR’s shotcomings. Apparently Google PR is somewhat easy to Game with a technique called Link Farms and it doesn’t take into consideration the amount of time a user spends on a given webpage.
“Experimental results show that BrowseRank can achieve better performance than existing methods, including PageRank…in important page finding, spam page fighting, and relevance ranking…”
But one thing is for sure, a single innovation won’t help Microsoft. Being the market leader takes constant innovation. PageRank isn’t the only thing that Goolge has innovated it. Their search results are influenced by over 200 factors. Google has tools like Google Trends, Google Analytics and Adsense, the data from all these together would provide better quality of results IMO.
So Browse Rank is just another new technology that Microsoft is playing with to compete on the web. And TechCrunch adds some spice to it. A recent post at TechCrunch suggested that Google’s claim of having ‘the most comprehensive index of any search engine’ might not stand true next week! Some big announcement coming up? Wait and watch! Ok it seems to be a new search engine Cuil.
Via Cnet
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