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eVouse, The mouse of the future

Techno — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:52:22 +0000

A sense of speed, this concept of mouse work Ahsayane Marcial, who has chosen Microsoft as its logo. eVouse have two modes, one in which air is asserting its accelerometer for things like “paint” or become a “pen”, a traditional one for everything else.

Do not know how it will be for the hand, with the gap in the middle, but as the design is spectacular. More images after the jump.

Source: Yankodesign.com

It was just free software

Techno — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:28:45 +0000

Microsoft admitted that the tool to install on netbooks W7 denounced by another copy code under GPL, it actually contained. Next week will release the code.

After an internal investigation, the company founded by Gates admitted what happened, but only recognized some of the blame, as interpreted in a post published by Peter Galli, Community Open Source from Microsoft:

Is it strange thing from Microsoft? I do not think.

Bing gets Yahoo! Search over 10 years

Techno — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:01:10 +0000

After months of negotiations, Microsoft and Yahoo come to an agreement.

Here are videos of Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz, announcing the agreement.

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Microsoft launches online Office

Techno — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:14:55 +0000

The computer giant Microsoft plans to launch in the first half of next year a free version of its Office software package, as the company revealed at a conference for business partners in New Orleans.

The software will be available via the Internet and look for its revenue through advertising. The Microsoft product is the latest move in the war that the two giants are living since Google announced the arrival of Chrome Google Operating System.

This is not to free the Office 2010 program, worth over a hundred euros, but a new service, Office Web Applications, which allows to use simple Internet versions of programs as the most widely used word processor (Word), the spreadsheet (Excel), presentations (Power Point) and the text recognition (OneNote). To access these applications will be users of Windows Live or have a contract with the multinational company. The online version will be available in the course of 2010.

Let’s see what happens