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[CONFIRMED]Microsoft is on the way to eat Skype

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Frankly speaking,when I first time heard this news,I thought this is a joke.I mean how hard you could link a software giant special in OS and word processing software with a VOIP solution company.After I dig deeper,I find that’s possible as Microsoft has Windows Live Messenger which could count in the same field.Currently,some sources now have claimed that Microsoft had offered a price between US8-9 billion to acquire Skype.

I like Skype very much as I always use it contacting with friends and family far away from me.It could provide a clear voice and video communication with their unique compressing technology,it even could work quite fine in a low bandwidth environment when other chatting tools are failed.

Skype currently could earn US600 million yearly and most of the income source is company customer.The competition never stops in this area.Google has Google voice and Google Talk and just introduced video chatting recently;Rumour from Facebook said Facebook is researching on adding voice chat function in the website;a lot of apps now are supporting video chatting on iOS/Android devices.

I think Microsoft wants to get Skype to integrate with its Windows Live Messenger to enhance the experience on voice/video chatting as well as making it an income generator.Who knows?Just wait Microsoft to come out to clarify all. :)

[UPDATE]

No more rumours,Microsoft has confirmed to buy Skype at US8.5billion.

Internet Explorer 9

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After several betas and RCs,the final version of Internet Explorer 9 is on the table.From the past testing,I really feel that IE has changed a lot.Many people dropped IE to use other browsers because the old IE always has errors occurred during surfing and performed quite bad in terms of loading web pages and java scripts.

Well,the weakness are gone after paying great efforts to make IE better enough competing with other browsers,such as Firefox and Google Chrome.Let’s hear how the people feel on this latest product this time:

IE9 has 9 reasons to let you install it.

Badly,IE9 can’t support to install in Windows XP and older systems.That means some old computer and netbook users can’t try it neither.

Frankly speaking,although IE9 has claimed to be the fastest web browser in the world,but from my real experience,Google Chrome still performs a bit better than it.However,the changes are remarkable as we can see.

The automatic update of IE has been rolling out.However,if you haven’t updated automatically and you wanna get it immediately,please try to get it in this page and install it manually in minutes.Enjoy! :)

IE9 beta is out of box

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More and more web browsers come out to compete the market shares recently.IE,of course,is still at the top of the market.However,it is chased by Firefox which is capable to have multiple choices of add-ons and Chrome which has a light interface.

IE 9 beta is innovating to integrate lots of applications to support the latest technology and standard such as HTML5.The test results show that IE9 beta get better marks compared to Firefox 3.6 and Chrome in some parts.Many testers think Microsoft now is putting their best efforts on this product to maintain the king seat.I believe that will be a real tough battle because Firefox and Chrome are moving quickly enough to fight with IE with their advantages.IE9 beta should be more stable and much faster in order to keep the exiting users.

Ok,let’s get to know what’s new in the new version of IE.

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The interface of IE9 beta is quite simple.That means we can have more spaces to show the contents of websites.

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Microsoft is providing a test-drive page to let you try out the performance of your current browser and IE9 beta.Is that fair?I don’t know.Maybe we just treat it like a quick reference.

Are you interested to get it now?You can visit the official website to download it in your own language.I wish you will have a great experience on it.

New Windows Live Messenger beta

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Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta just released 7 hours ago and I’m applying it in my laptop already.Windows Live Messenger is the most popular software for me,so I decided to try that first.

The default view has rich contents there,including ‘highlights’,’photos’,’status’ etc.It’s a real mixture of social network tool and instant message software.

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It also has a traditional view aka a compact view to slim the windows.

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Once you open a chatting window,you can find nothing changed except a bar with some functions.

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So from now on,if you want to disappear to some of your friends,you can set to appear offline to the person whilst other people can still see you there.
Here are my rough comments on the very new Windows Live Messenger beta and I think I should take more time to dig out more knowledge on this.You guys could download and install this new stuff to try it out too.It may make you look cool,huh?  Open-mouthed smile

Get it here…

(BTW,I edited this article on the latest Windows Live Writer beta,the experience is much better than the old version.Thumb up!!!)

Apple is laughing at Microsoft

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Actually Apple always does it,especially in the advertisements.They have enough creativities to cut Microsoft into single pieces.It’s Apple’s style,killing people by words.The latest advertisement from Apple is going to kill Microsoft’s popular baby-Windows 7.

It counts all past broken promises from Microsoft and implies that Windows 7 will continue having those messy.I don’t know whether it is the truth because I haven’t used it.If you’re having Windows 7 now,what is your real experience?I don’t want to hear that it’s exactly the same as the ad expresses.