Microreviews

If the first post of the series had Microsoft dominating the traditional areas of computing, today we take a dive in to the Google dominated areas. While Google has continued to innovate in search, email and IM service, even Microsoft has come up with some solid innovations in these areas

Google is trying to close in on Microsoft’s bread and butter (Google’s Chrome OS has been the talking point for quite some time now). Microsoft is not be left behind with Bing making it’s mark in the search space at-least in some niche areas

Google ChromeOS- Common Myths cleared
1 needs NETBOOK – true
2 replacement for windows- false
3 runs on all PC’s and MAC’s – false
4 You can everything on it – false
5 User data is synced with cloud – true
6 Source Code is out – true

Real time search or ‘social search’ as Google calls is getting hotter by the day in the web space. First Microsoft announced the Bing-Twitter-Facebook Integration deal. In a matter of days Google followed to launch ‘social search by tying up with twitter and other social networking sites. Now comes the turn of Yahoo,

Since  Microsoft Corp. took on Google in its own forte, it  has been making efforts to break grounds in conventional search, through  its search engine Bing. First, we saw  Bing Visual Search and now, at the recently concluded  Web 2.0 summit, MS took the fight to a whole new level – striking a double punch through

Each one of us saw it coming,Didn’t you? Once Google acquired DoubleClick to $ 3.1 Billion, we were all just waiting for Google to get into this. ( I am a one time Google lover but wanted to use the word evil )

With an HTML like structuring, FluidHTML allows web developers to create dynamic and rich media sites with relative ease. And there are no compatibility issues with major browsers. Also since it is markup, crawlers can read it and the SEO problem seems to get resolved

Date: May 28th ’09, Time: 8:15 AM, Place: San Diego, California This was the moment when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, took centre stage to launch a product, they believed would challenge the very forte Google operated in. The name was BING  (reportedly it stands for Bing Is Not Google).  A little problem to the big