Microsoft apologises for Winehouse tweet
Microsoft has apologised for a ‘tweet’ that has been blasted for seeming like a blatant effort to cash in on the death of 27-year-old British singer Amy Winehouse.‘Apologies to everyone if our earlier Amy Winehouse ‘download’ tweet seemed purely commercially motivated,’ Microsoft UK PR said at a ‘tweetbox360′ account at microblogging service Twitter.‘Far from the [...]
Microsoft Kinect has record sales
Microsoft is racking up the records with its motion sensing gaming device – the ‘Kinect’Released late last year, it has already entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest-selling consumer device of all time.Kinect is a controller-free gaming system that competes with the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 Move.It has been selling at [...]
Microsoft buying Skype for $US8.5bn
Microsoft has announced plans to buy internet phone service company Skype for $US8.5 billion ($A7.9 billion) in a move aimed at carving out a bigger presence in an online arena dominated by Google and Facebook.The acquisition of Skype, which had reportedly also attracted interest from Cisco, Facebook and Google, is the largest ever by the [...]
Microsoft Core Search Query Volume Rebounds
Overall, Americans conducted about 18.2 billion total core search queries in December 2010, up 3% from about 17.7 billion the previous month. Top core search query provider Google experienced 3% month-over-month growth, from about 11.4 billion to 11.7 billion queries, while number two Yahoo stayed essentially flat with 3.43 billion queries. Number four Ask Network [...]
Microsoft Loses Some Search Gains
Microsoft sites, which have recently shown impressive month-over-month growth in core and explicit search queries, backslid a bit in November 2010, according to new comScore qSearch data. In particular, total core searches conducted on Microsoft sites (primarily representing the Bing search engine introduced earlier this year) dropped 10% between October and November 2010, from 2.3 [...]
