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Microsoft is doing thing differently, with its new CEO...

Microsoft’s new browser ready to fight in a stripped-down world

REDMOND (WASHINGTON) — Microsoft’s new browser, code-named Project Spartan, will be designed to be used across devices, just like Google’s Chrome is available on Apple’s iOS, Android and PC in due course, as well as presumably on Xbox and the default on Windows Phone.

Microsoft has confirmed that Spartan will be unveiled later this year and will not use the familiar Internet Explorer (IE) name, the Web browser that is almost 20 years old and battle-scarred from rows with European regulators as well as competition from Mozilla’s Firefox and Chrome.

“We’re now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10,” Microsoft’s marketing chief Chris Capossela said on Wednesday.
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Good moves made by MS. Like the subscription based Office and revamped Surface Pro.

Personally, I owned both Pro 1 and 3. The Pro 3 reflects a commitment to develop their hardware biz, though a bit too late.

Their education biz is quite interesting, though I have yet to study it in detail.
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When people ask what is my target price, I never have any good answer for it because Philip Fisher said before (in Common Stock Uncommon Profit) that the best time to sell is never. Equity investment is buying into ownership, not betting slips.

The path to greatness and wealth is necessarily dangerous.... because greed is a fearsome fore that threatens your success at every step.
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One of the major restructuring from the newly on-board CEO. It should be a right decision, to focus on its core...

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Microsoft sheds part of digital ad business, mapping tool

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is handing off some of its digital advertising business to AOL and selling its street-image mapping operation to Uber, as the giant software company tries to focus on activities more relevant to its core business.

AOL is adopting Microsoft’s Bing search engine, replacing Google as the default search option for visitors. That means Microsoft will get a share of revenue from advertising tied directly to Internet searches performed on AOL. But Microsoft will let AOL take over the selling of other types of advertising on Microsoft websites and apps, such as MSN, Skype and Xbox. An AOL spokeswoman said the online media company will extend job offers to all 1,200 people who worked in Microsoft’s advertising business.
http://www.todayonline.com/tech/microsof...pping-tool
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The new CEO new cost-cutting initiative...

Microsoft cuts 7,800 jobs as phone sales flag

NEW YORK — Microsoft announced a major new round of lay-offs yesterday as it sought to cut costs further in a shifting technology landscape, saying it would eliminate up to 7,800 jobs worldwide, or more than 6 per cent of its workforce, with most of the cuts coming in its phone business.
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http://www.todayonline.com/tech/microsof...sales-flag
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Tech M&A is pretty risky. Nokia handset business isn't doing well. My nephew will drop the Windows phone, and go for the Android, with no hesitation. The Windows phone is junk, in their eye...Tongue

Microsoft posts US$3.2b loss as it writes down Nokia phone business
22 Jul 2015 06:43
[SAN FRANCISCO] Microsoft Corp reported a US$3.2 billion quarterly net loss as it wrote down its Nokia phone business and demand fell for its Windows operating system.

The company took a charge of US$7.5 billion in the fourth quarter related to the restructuring of its Nokia handset business, which it acquired last year. Microsoft's shares fell 3 per cent to US$45.80 in extended trading on Tuesday.

Under Chief Executive Satya Nadella, the company has been shifting its focus to software and cloud services as demand for its once-popular Windows operating system slows.
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Source: Business Times Breaking News
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Uber is half year to $100 billion, even before the "IPO blessing". Will MS did it right this round?

Uber reaches $50 billion value thanks (in part) to Microsoft

Uber is getting richer and richer. It's now valued at $51 billion after raising another $1 billion in funding, and it got to this stage two years faster than Facebook did. As always, the ride-sharing service has attracted an assortment of investors during its latest funding round -- one of them's none other than tech juggernaut Microsoft, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. While neither company has admitted it yet, Bloomberg says Microsoft has agreed to back Uber to the tune of around $100 million. It's unclear whether this means they're pursuing a deeper relationship or if they're working together on a project or two, at least. If you recall, though, Uber's snapped up a portion of Bing's mapping tech back in June, along with a hundred of Redmond's employees.
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/01/uber-...nvestment/
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Have you upgraded? It seems pretty smooth, both the upgrade, and execution, till to-date...

Windows 10, the OS that Windows 8 should have been

LONDON — Windows 10, the latest version of Microsoft’s 29-year-old operating system, launched worldwide late last month. Following a hostile reception to Windows 8 in 2012, which was only placated in small part by the Windows 8.1 update in 2013, Microsoft is hoping that Windows 10 can help it regain favour among its 1.5 billion daily users.

Windows 10 rights a lot of the wrongs done by Microsoft in Windows 8. One of the things people hated about Windows 8 was the feeling that they were constantly being pushed to use “live tiles”, which were designed for touch-based computing, even when they were using a traditional desktop setup with a keyboard and mouse.

Another was the removal of the Start menu, which many people relied on as their first point of access to all software. This was replaced in Windows 8.1 with a Start button in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen, which launched the tile-based touch user interface that most people were trying to escape.

Although live tiles are still a feature of Windows 10, they are not nearly as obtrusive. When you open up the new Start menu, there is a panel of live tiles on the right, where people can “pin” their favourite apps, but there is also a traditional Windows 7-style Start menu on the left, allowing users to sort through all of their files, apps and settings systematically.

More importantly, clicking on a live tile does not result in you being transported to another virtual universe where the app takes over your entire screen. Rather, it opens in a neat little window on your desktop, and it generally behaves in a much more intuitive way.

Within this context, live tiles seem less repellent than they were in Windows 8. They blend much more into the wider user experience in desktop mode, and if you really cannot stand the sight of them in your Start menu, you can unpin them all.

The advantage of having them, though, is that if you are using a convertible device that operates in both desktop and tablet mode, then applications downloaded from the Windows Store will automatically adjust themselves to suit the mode, making switching between the keyboard and touch interface feel seamless.

Microsoft has also replaced the despised “Charms” bar from Windows 8, which appears when you swipe or click on the right-hand side of the screen. This was replaced by an “Action Center” that provides notifications and quick access to settings, and is genuinely quite useful.

What Windows 7 users, in particular, will like about Windows 10 is the speed and responsiveness of the new system. Given that Windows 7 is now six years old, the software inevitably feels a bit clunky, but it is really noticeable that programmes start faster and run faster in Windows 10, and the whole system feels more slick.

If you stopped using Internet Explorer years ago, Microsoft’s new Web browser, Edge, is a revelation. It feels more like Google Chrome, with a light, stripped-back user interface and a simple set of tools along the top, under the search bar.

For example, “favourites” lets you bookmark a page and cache it for reading offline, “web note” lets you annotate live pages and then save a screenshot of the page, and “share page” lets you send a link to friends via email or social network.

Read mode is also great for people who like to read long articles online, allowing you to strip out all the ads, sidebars, pop-ups and links, and scroll through a single column of text and pictures. You cannot use it on every page, and you still have to go back to the standard layout in order to navigate, but it is a really nice user-friendly feature.

There are many other features in Windows 10, such as the ability to run multiple “desktops” side by side — the virtual equivalent of having multiple PC monitors with different apps open on each screen. It is quite a niche feature, but one that some people will no doubt find useful. You can also “snap” applications that are open to different corners of the screen to make them easier to view.

Windows 10 makes sense. These days, technology should be intuitive enough that you can just pick it up and use it without any instructions or guidance, and Windows 10 just about achieves that. While there are still bumps to iron out, Windows 10 is what Windows 8 ought to have been — a piece of software that is suitable for the mobile era but that does not neglect the millions of people who still use it on a desktop. The Daily TELEGRAPH
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Upgraded Win 10 from Win 7. So far so good.

the new Edge browser quite fast too. But stick to Chrome.

BTW SSD and RAM are cheap at Taobao. Should upgrade your PCs, especially the older ones.
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I think there are some privacy issues on windows 10 by default they take your information.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology..._them.html

I learned this years ago, don't be the first to try out new things, new things are full of issues waiting to be discovered especially software and microsoft well known for it. I generally wait 1-3 years before I try move on to upgrade by then maybe something else new coming out but the N-1 product have gone thru all the pain will usually be very stable. Am still on windows 7.

If you want fast browser but not so convenient very easy remove all the apps that's bloating it down.

The main idea is to use something not mainstream that the masses uses so it's not on the radar of the hackers trying to steal your info and the advertisers trying to steal your attention. I stopped using firefox heard of waterfox?

http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments...s_firefox/

I also stopped using waterfox too, I use something else better now. Big Grin
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(11-08-2015, 11:06 AM)opmi Wrote: Upgraded Win 10 from Win 7. So far so good.

the new Edge browser quite fast too. But stick to Chrome.

BTW SSD and RAM are cheap at Taobao. Should upgrade your PCs, especially the older ones.

Just an update:

Did a clean install of Win 10 after the Win7=>Win10 upgrade.
Problems popping up. Like drivers crashes & Cannot install Samsung printers software.

Reverted back to my old Win10.

My suggestion is to upgrade from Win 7. Wait for service pack 1 before doing a clean install for Win 10.
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