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Windows Phone Series 7
Feb 22nd
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, Microsoft finally unveiled the latest version of Windows Mobile. The company took two years to develop the new OS, starting essentially from scratch. The result is a world class smartphone operating system and UI that actually has a chance to make Microsoft a player in the space again. The company has been operating in the mobile space for a while, of course, but after Apple and Google entered the market, Microsoft had no choice but to chuck its old OS in favor of a more competitive version.
To understand Microsoft’s approach to the market with Windows Phone Series 7, we need to examine the diametrically opposing ways its competitors develop products for the space. Apple epitomizes the closed approach. Google and the open source community, on the other hand, view smartphones as an open platform for design and innovation. While both approaches have merit, Apple’s move to drive software developers to write and support a specific OS has helped the company go from zero to 25 percent market share in less than three years. It has served the company well and has generated a lot of money for the developers of the iPhone’s more than 150,000 apps.
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Chrome Sets Browser Security Standard, Says Expert
Jan 10th
All browser makers should take a page from Google’s Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system, a noted security researcher said today.
Dino Dai Zovi, a security researcher and co-author of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook , believes that the future of security relies on “sandboxing,” the practice of separating application processes from other applications, the operating system and user data.
In a Wednesday entry on Kaspersky Labs’ ThreatPost blog, Dai Zovi described sandboxing, as well as the lesser security technique of “privilege reduction,” as “[moving] the bull (untrusted data) from the china shop (your data) to the outside where it belongs (a sandbox).”
Firefox numero uno
Dec 21st
THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION will be celebrating after the web counter outfit Stat Counter revealed that its open source Firefox browser overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser for the first time.
The figures show that the Vole’s Internet Exploder 7 has been on a gradual slide this year as users upgraded to IE version 8. However by a strange statistical quirk, IE8 is still not as popular as Mozzarella’s Fireferret 3.5 yet and thus the open sauce furry mammal is for once in its life the world’s number one web browser.
The Bing for mobile
Dec 16th
Bing Mobile (previously Live Search Mobile) is a search tool for mobile devices from Microsoft as part of their Bing search engine.The Bing for mobile browser is the mobile decision engine that’s always at your side.
- Use it for quick answers, Web searches, product lookups, and local listings.
- This version of Bing is available for just about any Web-enabled mobile phone in many countries worldwide.
- Try it now by visiting m.bing.com with the browser on your phone.
- Get directions to just about anywhere, by car or on foot.
- Browse nearby map locations by category, rating, and distance.
- Painlessly find nearby businesses, restaurants, and movie theater showtimes.
- Get one-click directions, and click to call.
- Say your search instead of typing it.
- See recent searches and favorites on your home screen.
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Microsoft acquired Opalis
Dec 12th
Microsoft has acquired Opalis, a leading provider of next-generation IT process automation software. Opalis will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft and will maintain offices in Mississauga, Ontario. The Opalis products will become part of the System Center family of datacenter management products.
Opalis provides IT process automation software. This software helps organizations to automate IT processes across their complex, heterogeneous datacenter environments. Opalis solutions include:
- Prepackaged workflows and automation expertise for the common tasks in managing a datacenter. Examples include Run Book Automation (RBA), virtual machine lifecycle management, incident ticket management, and cloud computing virtual machine migration
- An automation platform designed to be simple to use by customers so they can quickly create and execute workflows across datacenter management tools
- Deep integration capabilities to orchestrate tasks across datacenter infrastructure and systems management products including those from BMC, CA, IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Symantec