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Le possibilità offerte da Kinect – è innegabile – sono molteplici. Sul sito di Xbox, per esempio, c’è un video promozionale che mostra come la periferica di Microsoft possa essere usata nelle sale operatorie, facilitando il lavoro dei chirurghi. Nel corso del video si illustra come la soluzione pensata a Redmond permetta ai dottori di poter utilizzare una applicazione medica senza dover fisicamente toccare il PC, a tutto vantaggio dell’igiene. Tutto bene, quindi, e tanti complimenti a Microsoft.
A guardar meglio, però, verso la fine (precisamente a 1:47) viene inquadrato da vicino il monitor utilizzato in sala operatoria, da cui fa capolino quello che in tutta evidenza è il pannello di default di GNOME, con un tema di colori che grida inconfondibilmente Ubuntu.
The next phase of Skype’s life could be as part of Microsoft. What could the software giant do with the service, and could it be a better fit than its former owner eBay? WSJ’s Andrew LaVallee discusses with Alex Frangos.
Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly-converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment.
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A deal could be announced as early as Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said, though they cautioned that negotiations aren’t yet final and a deal could still fall apart. Including Skype’s long-term debt, the total value of the deal is about $8.5 billion.
Representatives for Microsoft and Skype declined to comment
Gli utenti che a suo tempo hanno aperto un blog con Windows Live Spaces devono fare i bagagli e cambiare aria. Il trasloco è stato infatti annunciato nello scorso mese di settembre sulla base della scelta Microsoft di dismettere il servizio concentrando altrove le proprie risorse ed ora una mail di avviso ricorda a tutti gli utenti che la data ultima per salvare i propri dati è quella del 16 marzo.
La destinazione standard è quella di WordPress.com, verso cui Microsoft redireziona la propria community per consentire a tutti di proseguire la propria attività di blogging senza interruzioni: «Siamo molto felici di collaborare con un servizio di blog importante e innovativo come WordPress.com, per permettere ai clienti di Windows Live di effettuare la migrazione dei loro blog di Windows Live Spaces a WordPress.com dove potranno usufruire di vari miglioramenti dell’esperienza di blog. Ti aiuteremo a effettuare la migrazione del tuo attuale blog a WordPress.com o a scaricarlo per conservarlo. Il 16 marzo 2011 il tuo Windows Live Spaces attuale verrà chiuso e non avrai più accesso ai contenuti a meno che non decidi come procedere».
Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem. The partnership increases our scale, which will result in significant benefits for consumers, developers, mobile operators and businesses around the world. We both are incredibly excited about the journey we are on together.
While the specific details of the deal are being worked out, here’s a quick summary of what we are working towards:
We’re excited to announce that WordPress.com is now the default blogging platform for Windows Live Spaces users. We’ve worked with our partners at Microsoft to create a simple migration service for Spaces bloggers to easily bring all their posts, comments, and photos to WordPress.com.
Over a six month period, beginning today, Windows Live Spaces users will have the option to move their blogs to WordPress.com. To make this possible, we’ve created a brand new importer for Windows Live Spaces to WordPress.com. New Windows Live users will also be offered a WordPress.com blog when they choose to create a new blog.
Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves using everything the PC and its hardware have to offer. Before IE9, browsers used perhaps 10% of the PC’s capability. IE9 has shown the clear performance benefits with full hardware-acceleration of webpages.
Our approach in designing a site-centric web browsing experience also involves using everything available around the browser. We see all the pixels and code that people need for a significantly better browsing experience already there on the screen. The beta of Internet Explorer 9, available now at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 33 languages, reflects this unique approach:
Our point of view is that the browser is the stage, or backdrop, for the web, and the sites are the star of the show. Similar to the relationship between Windows 7 and Windows applications, people go to the web for sites, not the browser. We asked, “How can IE make sites shine? How can IE put sites at the center of the experience?” Microsoft has more than a billion Windows customers in the world today, and we want browsing the web – one of the most common things they do on Windows PCs – to be a great experience.
They’re the everyday fixtures of the Internet experience: pop-up stock quotes on a website, suggestions for related reading near a news article, videos along the side of your screen. Now, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen says he owns the technology behind all these ideas, and he’s demanding that some of the world’s top Web companies pay up to use them.
A firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple, Google and 9 other companies alleging they are violating patents Mr. Allen financed more than a decade ago. Dionne Searcey and Julia Angwin look at the suit and the technology involved. The 57-year-old software guru on Friday sued much of Silicon Valley, claiming Internet giants such as Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and eBay Inc. have built their businesses around what he says is his technology.
Mr. Allen’s suit, filed in federal court in Seattle, asserts those three companies and eight others are using technology developed a decade ago at the billionaire’s now-defunct Silicon Valley laboratory. Mr. Allen, a pioneer of computer software, didn’t develop any of the technology himself but owns the patents. His targets vowed to fight. “This lawsuit against some of America’s most innovative companies reflects an unfortunate trend of people trying to compete in the courtroom instead of the marketplace,” a Google spokesman said. Other companies named in the suit said they planned to defend themselves or weren’t available to comment.
I’m not planning to dump my Windows machine for the iPad. I am using the iPad as a consumption device, not a creation device (at least for now). And that’s OK. Like many people, I spend most of my day consuming, not creating — reading tweets, surfing Web sites, reading books (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad), creating recipe lists (via the iPad Epicurious app, and then cooking with the iPad on my counter with the instructions). I can read my Office documents by accessing them from my SkyDrive . I can use other apps I’m accustomed to, like Live Messenger, Hotmail, Google Docs, just fine on the iPad.
La sfida su controller e sensori tra Nintendo, Sony e Microsoft sta arrivando alla resa dei conti, con l’azienda di Redmond che, in occasione dell’E3, inizia a scoprire le proprie carte presentando quello che finora era noto come Project Natal e che ora assume il nome definitivo di Kinect. Kinect – il cui nome deriva dalla contrazione dell’espressione kinetic act (che rimanda al movimento) e, nel suono, ricorda la parola connect, ossia connetti – è, secondo Microsoft, la tecnologia che farà sparire i controller delle console per come li abbiamo conosciuti finora.
29 gennaio, 2012 
Computer, Economia, Internet 
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Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem. The partnership increases our scale, which will result in significant benefits for consumers, developers, mobile operators and businesses around the world. We both are incredibly excited about the journey we are on together.
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