Students push Microsoft to buy only PC to Xbox 360 activity

Microsoft official blog said on Thursday, May 22, at more than US $ 699 and the purchase price of PC students will receive a free Xbox 360 4GB gaming machines. The activities on those by Dell, HP’s Web site and Microsoft online shop buy PC online consumers effectively. Through retail channels such as best buy or Microsoft store purchased PC can also enjoy this offer.

Students who want free Xbox 360 4GB gaming machines at the time of purchase of PC required. edu email address. If you do not have. edu email address, you can go to retail stores to produce proof of his students.

Microsoft Xbox 360 game 4GB current retail price of us $ 200, built-in Wi-Fi, with a black Xbox 360 wireless controller. Users who want to add capacity, want to buy a hard drive alone.

Recently popular Xbox 3,600 retail exception. According to market research firm NPD said Microsoft’s April sales 297,000 Xbox 360 this year, more than Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo Wii game sales. Microsoft said in the past 11 months, Xbox 360 won the title of best-selling game in 10 months.

According to Microsoft, buy a PC to Xbox 360 activity will be continued until September 3, the activity will be soon in Canada and France to take effect. (CNET)

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Microsoft Outlook Hotmail connector upgrades

Recently Microsoft has released a new tool that allows users to connect Office Outlook and Windows Live Hotmail account smooth. New version of the tool compared to the original with some general improvements.

Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector for Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 32-bitMicrosoft Outlook Hotmail Connector for Outlook 2010 64-bit

1, a number of send and receive problem is fixed.

2, the Outlook junk e-mail filter in Hotmail account included in the whitelist.

3 issues, fix some hangs and crashes.

4, repair when you synchronize with Outlook, Windows Live contacts birthdays and anniversaries are ahead or behind the day’s problems.

5, repair the establishment of contacts in Outlook and Windows Live, cannot synchronize classification property issues.

This update, but there is still no support for HTTPS will join in. The version tools support Outlook 2010,2007 Outlook 2003 Outlook 2010 64-bit and 32-bit.

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Microsoft: attacks rise 14 times for Java times

Microsoft’s latest security report revealed that the attacks had become the focus of hackers for Java vulnerability, Java attack number is in the first quarter 2010 on 14 times in the third quarter. Hacker’s main objective is the Oracle Java virtual machine and its programs, the total number of 85%, attacked objects including operating system vulnerabilities, HTML, and script vulnerabilities, attacks mostly hang MA (IFRAME), implicitly allow users to run malicious code through a Web browser.

More good news is, after the first quarter of 2010 year of Adobe Reader and Acrobat vulnerability has dropped more than half and continues to maintain a good safety record, and increased vulnerability for Microsoft Windows operating system, to the end of 2010 there are two high visibility of critical vulnerabilities arise.

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Microsoft will be released on May 24 the WP7 Mango system

Microsoft Windows Phone preview given to New York to attend the Conference invitation.
On May 24, 2011, Microsoft will communicate the next most important Windows Phone update. Similar activities will be held in London on the same day. Window Phone Mango update of Microsoft’s next release will be more “interesting”, or we should call it a Windows Phone 7.5.

Mango brings Bing Audio, Bing Vision, street navigation, features such as SMS Dictation. More information will be updated in the event, we will continue to report.

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Microsoft again updated the WP7 application certification requirements

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In order to maintain easily also have development potential of the platform, and can help developers publish more applications, Microsoft has updated the WP7 application certification standards. As early as October last year, almost the same thing Microsoft once, recent changes will bring significant improvements. Internal test steps, and to improve the overall pass rate, and so on.

In addition, they have been moved to a new HTML format, the format looks like easier access to information.

Document: (1), (2), (3)

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AV-Test test in the first quarter results are out of the penultimate CA Microsoft insurance excess

Microsoft Microsoft Security Essentials free antivirus software programmes recently attended Germany’s AV-Test testing, this testing platform for Windows 7 32-bit system in 0day in the test project, drops to MSE result compared to the first few months rapidly 50%, lead directly to score down to 2.5, however there are more, CA Security Suite unfortunately insurance excess. BitDefender glorious Championship 2011, the following is a list of test results.

Product Report CertifiedScore: 0.0 (worst) to 6.0 (best)BitDefender: Internet Security Suite 2011BullGuard: Internet Security 10.0F-Secure: Internet Security 2011Kaspersky: Internet Security 2011Symantec: Norton Internet Security 2011G Data: Internet Security 2011Webroot: Internet Security Complete 7.0Avira: Premium Security Suite 10.0Comodo: Internet Security Premium 5.0 and 5.3PC Tools : Internet Security 2011Sophos: Endpoint Security and Control 9.5Avast: Free AntiVirus 5.0 and 6.0MicroWorld: eScan Internet Security Suite 11.0Trend Micro: Titanium Internet Security 2011Norman: Security Suite Pro 8.0Sunbelt: Vipre Antivirus Premium 4.0Microsoft: Security Essentials 2.0CA: Internet Security Suite 2011

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Microsoft product site lit a PC and Mac once again against the war

Microsoft Canada today launched one called “Do the Math” website, describes how a Windows PC to save money to buy you a ticket to travel ticket, this object is not of others, it is like to Mac and PC than than before. Inverse of Microsoft assault on fire at an almost MacBook of all dimensions and models, killing one by one to catch on, both the configuration and price, Microsoft can think to buy Mac users to save more money.

Access:“Do the Math”

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Microsoft confirms Chevron team will fix their own problems

Thank-Amoe WP7-Chi machine network drop
News source: pocketnow.com
Some users use a Chevron WP7 Updater tool to force the upgrade to the NoDo, and that some users not receiving new updates, based on the Tweet above, Microsoft confirmed it would be to fix them. In order to refresh the memory, Chris wrote a self-made Wlash update tool, which you can install the latest ROM. Followed, Microsoft warned, using this method, there is a risk, Chris Walsh has also confirmed this.

In a recent Windows Phone Developer Blog in the comments, Brandon
Watson explained the “Walshed” mobile phone cannot be updated, and 80,180,048 the cause of the error occurs. These phones are artificially changed to a “changed” State, rather than a “more
New “State-this is only through the official update phone will some State.

Looks like a carelessly broke things, and now fixed – uncovered! – According to a recent Tweet ChevronWP7 team, Microsoft is their repair. This will allow all the “Walshed” mobile phone users back on track, and receive a Mango to 7,392 updates – final is then updated.

Microsoft great signs of cooperation and Chevron is adapting to each other – it is not that we doubt the Chevron team – in addition to their own, who can check the repair if you can resolve this issue. Let us pray

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Chinese version of the Mac platform first release of Microsoft Office listed in June

Microsoft today to Chinese users with a Chinese version of Office for Mac 2011 beta download, this is the first time Microsoft released the Chinese version of Office for Mac, the official version will be released in June. According to Microsoft China, where Mac versions of Excel is the Microsoft’s Beijing team the whole development is complete.

According to Microsoft’s introduction, the Chinese version of Office for Mac 2011 Beta can be completely compatible with the Windows version, is whether Word, Excel or PowerPoint, and Outlook are fully optimized for Mac systems, while offering a variety of Chinese font compatibility and various details of the perfection of. And can be a very good realization of PC and Mac at the same time the common edit.

It is learned that the Chinese version of Office for Mac 2011 by Microsoft in Seattle, Silicon Valley to Beijing three teams collaborate, which Beijing team the whole development of the Mac version of Microsoft Excel. Microsoft revealed that the beta trial period is 1 month, and the official version of the Office for Mac 2011 will be released in June of this year.

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Microsoft: WP7 painted brick is not our fault has previously warned

Microsoft responded today after some WP7 phone update bricks users questions, they said, Smartphone development speed and complexity of the system, the operating system will be updated frequently, to bring security to enhance and upgrade, but some “Advanced” official upgrade user and do not have the patience to wait for the manufacturer, and the update will be available through unofficial channels in advance.

Explain Microsoft technicians today, bulandeng·wosen in the blog, do not use “methods that do not support” WP7 phone upgrade, Microsoft recommends that users do not use more than once before in this way, but many customers did not listen, so created the official upgrade bricks for passive scenes.

Watson then added that Microsoft will try to help the user solve the problem of software patch lead bricks, also consider and unofficial tool developers, test their solution, ensures that users are no longer suffering from distress. Has occurred the same brick and cannot be repaired the user may wish to consider sending your phone back to the place of purchase for repair, Microsoft will help reinstalling the system.

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Microsoft database new project – “Project Barcelona”

Recently, Microsoft preparing to launch its latest plan, which they called “Project Barcelona”.
The project will be used for enterprise search and information storage used by the Web crawler tool. Crawlers will search for Microsoft products, such as SQL
Server, Excel, SharePoint, and additional data. “Project
Barcelona “index server will be the follow-up of the metadata, making it easier to locate and access business information across the enterprise. There are also specially designed “Project
Barcelona “tool available to database administrators.

“Project Barcelona” sounds like a upgrade version of Microsoft Search server, and will compete with other enterprises, such as Apache Solr enterprise search server.

Microsoft’s Andrew Conrad “Project Barcelona” team blog “for non-development company, to build their own tools for business intelligence and data collection and use of Access, Excel and SharePoint this is very poor.”

“Modern enterprise is very data-intensive, and tend to be network-like, but can understand and take full advantage of enterprise data topology tools almost does not exist. But this is not entirely a bad thing, contrary to this challenge will inspire a better tool to be overcome. “Andrew Conrad said.

Finally Andrew Conrad said the Panel will be collected through a series of technical preview community feedback, and is scheduled for release in the summer. (Li Zhi/translation)

Original link: ReadWriteWeb

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Global revenues climbed by the operating system: Microsoft IBM HP top three

According to the latest market research institute Gartner data showed,as the 2010 market demand for IT products and services started to recover, 2010 global operating system market revenue increased 7.8%, amounted to $ 30.4 billion. Leading Microsoft’s market share there have been 0.7% by the operating system up, followed by IBM and HP, respectively, but its market share and 7.5%, respectively.

Gartner pointed out in his report, with the general improvement of the situation in the global economy, global operating system market revenues increased from $ 28.14 billion in 2009 to $ 30.4 billion for 2010.

Microsoft’s operating system is still in lead, increased market share from the cent in 2009 to amount per cent in 2010. IBM and HP followed market occupies and 7.5% respectively.

Gartner analyst Matthew · range (Matthew Cheung), said: “as the world economy recover from landslides, allowed long-term ongoing demand for personal computers to release, thus promoting the growth of the client operating system market. ”

Oracle acquired Sun’s Solaris business by virtue of in April 2009, ranked by 2009, the rose in the operating system market in 2010 to 4th place.

Under the influence of Mac desktop and notebook sales strong, 2010 Mac operating system occupies a 1.7% market, revenues reached US $ 520 million.

Open source software Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system became the largest increase in revenues, according to Gartner statistics, Red Hat in 2010 revenues surged to us $ 610 million, than in 2009 by 18%.

Despite the astonishing increase in Red Hat’s revenues, but Microsoft is still the overlord of the operating system, Windows 7 and Windows Server operating system launched in 2010, makes the company revenue rose by 8.8%, to us $ 23.8 billion.

According to Gartner’s analysis, significant growth indicates the server operating system Red Hat users start gradual acceptance of Linux systems.

Server operating system is used primarily by IBM and HP Unix system introduced by the ruling, Gartner says: “the server operating system market, due to greater use of open standards to the end user’s system, making Linux system in rapid growth in 2010. But Unix market are generally only slight growth or negative growth. ”

By contrast, IBM and HP’s revenue increase of just and 5.6%, respectively.

Apple Mac OS
X provides the company with the proceeds not small, 2010 revenues reached US $ 520 million, compared with 2009 rose by 15.8%. According to Gartner’s analysis, as Apple continues to push
More iPhone and iPad products, there will be more users into the acquisition in the tide of Apple Mac to promote its further growth in revenues.

While Apple and Red Hat’s revenues showed strong growth momentum, but the operating system market share growth remain high, Apple only to enhance the 0.1% to the 1.7%,Red Hat you enhance the 0.2% per cent. And Microsoft has enhanced the 0.7% per cent, still dominates the market for the entire industry.

According to Gartner’s analysis, Microsoft will continue to rule the operating system market is there is no suspense, but Linux is gradually thick product sends thinly, had begun at least developed in the high-end server market. (SINA science and technology/Lin Jing)

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Microsoft calls for protection of touch-screen interface and network services intellectual property

According to foreign media reports, Wednesday as Nokia announce “adjust and consolidate global branch” news, the history of the most massive layoffs began sweeping. It is learnt that the Nokia plans
Lay off 7,000 employees, of which 4,000 participants from research and Development Department. In addition, Nokia also will work with aizhesen (Accenture), Symbian software development including its 3,000 employees transferred to
Aizhesen. The Nokia internal memo disclosed (Nokia internal memo) describes in detail its restructuring.

Following is the full text of the memorandum:

Symbian and Meego sectors were affected by the layoffs the biggest impact, because Nokia has announced its Symbian software development work will be outsourced to Accenture, will have more than 3,000 employees transferred to Accenture. Things
On the real, this action has long been threatened, as early as February of this year Nokia’s new CEO shidifen·ailuopu (Stephen Elop) announced that it will use Microsoft’s WP7 appeared to take shape when the operating system.

In the Memorandum published in Nokia wrote “our target is the Symbian related research and development of systems and services to Accenture customers of other mobile services in the context of Accenture continue. In addition, promise
Jiya Symbian system research and development will be gradually reduced and slowly end, this is done so that Nokia can in Windows
Phone platforms have a higher degree of flexibility. After 2013, Saipan sector will be more focused on remaining on the market of product-related maintenance work. ”

For being seen as Meego of Symbian successor system, the same could not escape the fate of layoffs. It is reported that Nokia plans will Meego most business terminated in late June 2012.

Wrote in a memorandum: “Windows Phone has begun to gradually carry out operations, most of the departments of architecture will be in place before the end of 2011, our goal is to from Symbian and Meego and other departments deploy to as many people as possible to support the work of Windows Phone sector.

The MeeGo team, Meltemi (Windows Phone at Nokia code) sector will also bring many opportunities for their personal development. ”

Although Nokia not publicly announced, but the cuts 1000 jobs will come from the mobile phone sector (Mobile
Phones), S30 and S40 phones that research and Development Department. In addition, the shidifen·ailuopu also says “Nokia to be restructured into three vertical sectors, that is marketing, smart devices and the mobile phone sector, Nokia North
Scale of the Beijing Office will be expanded. ”

Internal memorandum also confirmed that Nokia United Kingdom Farnborough (Farnborough) de choisy, near wood (Southwood) Office will close before the end of 2012, while closing
Closed-also located in United Kingdom Symbian system headquarters before the Boundary of the Row, and Saipan in the Friar ‘ s
House offices. In addition, Nokia is likely to look for Office building of relatively inexpensive rents in greater London area to be used for marketing and operational services.

It is worth mentioning is that Nokia only in recent years on their own in de choisy, wood’s estate, Friar ‘ s luxury decoration of the House and Soho area office. It is reported that de choisy, wood’s area office decor spent 8 million pounds to the Friar to enhance their Symbian system image ‘ s Office of the House decoration is also consumed an estimated 1.2 million pounds.

In response, said Nokia “Nokia Design Center in Central London would remain our United Kingdom composed of important market sectors”.

According to the memorandum shows layoffs were inevitable results of Nokia to consolidate research and development work, and layoff candidates is concentration and is based on the existing departments of the company from the vendor to determine the distance.

Specific information:

Windows Phone smart phone Office: Beijing, sarotherodon melanotheron, Santiago and Tampere; Helsinki/Espoo, the Office will focus on application development.

Mobile phone product research and development: Beijing, Oulu and Ulm; application services framework (ASF) research and development sites.

CTO of advanced equipment locations: Helsinki/Espoo, and Sunnyvale.

We are assessing the services team will go into the business, but does not include the kelule area, we plan to close the offices in the region.

Detailed site information:

Denmark: we plan to cut 950 jobs in Copenhagen about this regional office from fiscal 2011 quarter to 2012 fiscal fourth quarter and gradually downsized until the end product development activities, including research and development, purchasing and product management functions, local sales department will be retained.

Finland: we will not close any Office, but in Helsinki/Espoo,, Office layoffs of 1400 people in Tampere, and Oulu, sarotherodon melanotheron, layoffs will come mainly from Symbian and MeeGo departments, the layoffs will be completed before the end of 2012 gradually. In addition, Finland most Symbian in research and development work will be transferred to Accenture as planned.

India: plan in the Bangalore office departments to cut 300 jobs, services and research and development work is continuing with this, most of the Symbian software research and development work in this area will be transferred to Accenture as planned …

North America: plan in the North American Office 500 job cuts, most of them have laid off from San Diego and White Plains. In White Plains, Nokia’s operational activities will be gradually transferred, or reduced regulation
Mode, the end of 2012 will end completely. In addition to account management team, all North American sales
Sector and related activities will be transferred to Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale will then gradually become the core of Nokia’s sales and marketing activities in North America Office. At present, we are assessing the United States offices of Symbian software development
And the planned transfer to Accenture.

Romania: all in the kelule area of research and development program terminated at the end of 2011, factories in the area of business will remain unchanged, number of expected layoffs to 120 people.

Nokia’s internal memorandum also showed this:

1. the scale of the Beijing Office will continue to expand and become the core of S30, S40 phone research and development areas.

2. the Oulu region will become the core feature phones and Window Phone research and development areas.

3. Heaulme will continue to expand in scale and gradually become the core areas of research and development of feature phones, and Meltemi.

4. in the Helsinki/Espoo, area, Smartphone plans to expand the ASF team (application framework) scale to better support the Meltemi projects software development work.

Text/Sohu IT

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Microsoft in China first landing Beijing genuine experience shop located in Zhongguancun

Forbes Chinese version published 2011 global Chinese rich list for the first time today, aims to analysis and tracking of Chinese wealth. Displays the list, in mainland China, Robin Li Baidu to $ 9.4 billion worth more than wahaha Zong (US $ 5.9 billion), the promotion of China’s new richest man from the Mainland. Judging from the regional distribution of Chinese tycoons, mainland China to 115 Regal occupy Chinese rich list of more than half in the world (54%), residing in a 35-second place in the world’s richest in Southeast Asia (27) and the Taiwan area (25) followed United States Chinese Regal also occupy 7 seats.

Chinese billionaires in the last 5 years, the number of billionaires in the world in the number and the total (source: Forbes Chinese) Chinese rich list this year are the top three from Regal before taking care of. Long and of Chairman Li Ka-shing to us $ 26 billion of net worth, ranked first in the global Chinese tycoons, subsequently Thomas respectively, Raymond brothers (US $ 20 billion), and Lee Shau Kee (19 billion dollars). Population, area, Hong Kong is much smaller than many international cities, but its geographical location, unique historical conditions, makes aggregation of wealth in Hong Kong ahead. In mainland China, Robin Li Baidu to $ 9.4 billion worth more than wahaha Zong (US $ 5.9 billion), promoted new richest man in mainland China, also created a Chinese wealth miracle of the Internet. In March last year after Google out of China, Baidu became the greatest beneficiaries 2010 annual revenues grew 78%, profit up 137%. Forbes, editor-in-Chief of Chinese Zhou Jiangong says: “a global emerging Chinese Regal circle, no matter where Chinese Regal distribution, its main business had become increasingly closely with this increasingly open and fast-growing market in mainland China in combination, and the services market and customer base, dominated by Chinese society. “Display the list, the total of 213 Chinese rich list, Fortune worth up to $ 566.9 billion 12.6% per cent of total global billionaires wealth. Nearly 5 years, the Chinese Regal on the number and the total wealth of the world than increasing has become second only to United States circles of the world’s second largest richest tycoons.

(From: China News)

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[Atlas] incredible Microsoft “paint” works

SINA technology hearing April 26 morning news, for entering Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico, and India, and Turkey five rural markets in developing countries, such as Lenovo plans of the recent successful experiences in the local copy of the domestic market in China, to HP, Dell, and macros

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Microsoft says that Windows Phone 7 does not store user data

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phone 7 mobile does not store the user’s location. Prior to that, Apple iPhone is aeration will users geographical location information is stored in a non-encrypted files. Microsoft made clear that mobile phone running Windows Phone 7 operating system does not store user’s location information. As with most other mobile phone, Windows Phone
7 also offers a lot of location-based applications, but such applications when you start the trace function must seek the permission of user.

Microsoft also said that Windows Mobile has a function, you can turn off all geographical
Location services, and “find my phone” (Find My Phone) services will only track the users last location.

Apart from Microsoft, media also works with Nokia, RIM, Google and HP have been contacted, asked whether their respective mobile operating system will store the user’s geographic location data, but among Microsoft, other companies have not yet responded. However Google has previously acknowledged that Android does track and store location information.

Shang
Week two security researcher alasidaier·ailun (Alasdair Allan) and Pite·wodun (Pete
Warden) finds that Apple iOS devices, including iPhone and iPad will users geographical location data is stored in a hidden file named consolidated.DB
In the. The news immediately caused a great uproar.

In fact, this problem is not the first time occurs after Apple “positioning” user message has appeared, but not caused enough attention. Prior to law enforcement agencies have actually use these data as evidence.

Tracking user information event for iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) has also been explicitly pointed out in response to a user’s e-mail: “we did not follow anyone. “Instead, jobs blamed Android phone track user information.

Text/Tencent technology

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