The software giant Microsoft must be called as a specialist of bringing the web services for its users that tends for connecting people and diminishing the distances that are caused due to geographical limitations. To keep up its position in the internet world, Microsoft is bringing some very exciting stuff for its users like different web application, mapping tools, some desktop productivity software and others.

Let’s talk about the giant product of this software giant ‘the Windows Live Messenger’, I don’t think so there is any need to formally introduce what actually is the windows messenger, after getting a new PC the first software which is mostly installed on the Windows is the Live Messenger which is the thought to be the basic mode of communication over the world of internet.

Have you ever viewed the complete list of facilities which Microsoft has brought for you in Windows live messenger?  If not then you have reached the right place as here I am going to show you the facilities which have been provided along with just simple chatting with your friends. The Windows live messenger is not just software for chatting with your friends but it’s a whole world of sharing your stuff with whom you want to share.

The below mentioned bullets are showing you some of those facilities which the world of Windows live messenger are bringing for you.

• One of the most exciting facilities of Windows Live Messenger is that it has ended up the boundaries of who is the yahoo friend and who is from the hotmail as now you can also chat with your Yahoo friends on the Windows Live messenger. While talking especially about the Windows Messenger 2010 we can say that it is the one which brings lots of ease for chatting with a new stylish and easy user interface.
• The Windows Live messenger has received a great rating of one of its facility and that is the video calling, it’s so easy and the quality is so perfect that you feel like talking to your friends actually, as if you are sitting in front of each other. For this facility goodness is that you are not required to wait for a long time to set up a video call, just attach your cam with the computer and in just moments you and your friend will get connected.
• The photo gallery is another nice feature that is not particularly a member of Windows Live messenger but it comes from the world of Windows Live, it not only lets your share your photos with your friends but with that it also enables photo editing with which you can make good photos look adorable, live uploading facility on Facebook and also sorting plus finding your photos by date or ratings.
• You can also add your favorite sites like Facebook or Twitter on the Windows Live Messenger and then your updates will go directly to your social network that is being created on those platforms. So there is now need to inform your friends about your updates by either messaging them or using the IMs.
• On the new Windows Live Messenger 2010 the contact list layout is also made better and you can also change the size and placement of the contacts being displayed according to your own will.
• The ‘What’s New feed’ of this messenger also keeps you always updated from your friends, the Windows Live network is that highly advance network which will automatically tell you what’s new in the life of your friends and there is no need to visit their profiles on the daily basis.

So these were some really good excitements which are brought available for the Windows live messenger and that are really making your world of communication faster and well enhanced.

Google’s conformity to put together its office output applications with Salesforce’s client relationship association software apparently is a big agreement.

But business politics are just a part of the story.This new coalition identifies another indication in the tech industry’s sluggish march in the direction of a future in which now more but in the coming days most–software functions ultimately be located on the Internet.This hasn’t oblivion to Microsoft’s awareness.

Many sources preserve that supporting Salesforce as the new business platform isn’t likely to happen.As an alternative, Microsoft plans to go its own way and we must wait for to notice something out of Microsoft with the lines of what Google did with its app engine.
While addressing monetary analysts last summer, Ozzie presented an idea of a future of profound services where enormous data focuses to fortify a cloud infrastructure services cover on which all of Microsoft’s online services would run.

These are services like unique services, contact lists; this is the cover where social graph of your relationships lives, your presence and meeting, message services.

So whether it’s hosting our Live assistance for individuals or our service-based assistance that are more targeted for projects, or apps that are partners or customers will provide–this proposal will eventually be used by and will help all of the audiences that we as Microsoft serve because each audience is suffering some change that’s applicable to them from software-based solutions to software plus services, or services alone.

“Salesforce costs $700-1,000 per year per consumer, more than 10x Google Apps contribution cost. When Salesforce sells Google again, if it limits itself to its CRM user base, even assuming that it keeps the entire Google Apps contribution cost, it is at best a 10% upgrading. It is almost a loss chief for Salesforce.”

May be In the meantime, though, Google has massive money and can give to test whether Salesforce will give its apps greater inauguration into the business world. (And if the experiment flourishes into a hit, suppose the “Google to buy Salesforce” tale to once more make the rounds.)

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Yahoo’s boldness was quite obvious in a letter to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, marked the latest twist in a struggle pitting two high-tech icons trying to create a more difficult confront to online search and advertising leader Google Inc.

The edgy struggle now appears to have reached a turning point after more than two months of generally behind-the-scenes manipulation.Ballmer heated up the issue on the weekend by setting April 26 a deadline for Yahoo to accept Microsoft’s offer.

If Yahoo’s board doesn’t change his mind,Ballmer threatened to decrease Microsoft bid’s and inquire Yahoo’s shareholders to change the 10 directors opposing a buyout in a “proxy” contest.

Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, also a member of the company’s board, fired back Monday in a letter that condemned Ballmer for not doing more to advance the negotiations.According to Bostock and Yang, Ballmer has attended at least two of the informal meetings held between Microsoft and Yahoo.

However, the letter didn’t rule out further discussions as long as Ballmer is prepared to enhance the unwelcomed offer, which Yahoo first insisted in early February after its board without any difference of opinion concluded the bid not high enough.

Microsoft had no immediate response to the Yahoo letter

The letter didn’t identify how much Yahoo believes its value, but some analysts have gathered that Microsoft could afford to pay as much as $34 or $35 per share — about $50 billion — to end the talk without further hostility.

In their Monday letter, Bostock and Yang stated that Yahoo stockholders with major stakes in the company agree Microsoft’s bid isn’t high enough, particularly since the offer has decreased by more than $2 billion.

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The survey asked its readers to mention the brand which has a major impact on their lives and also how they alter their behavior and their view regarding the world.

Approximately two thousand students and professionals voted for the Apple brand.The inventor of the Mac computer and iPod has become the favorite brand of people in six categories including most inspiring brand and the one which the people cannot live without.

Image Credit: JEBThe world’s largest software producer, Microsoft was also a winner in this survey.But it received the ambiguous honor as the brand which most readers wanted to argue with, and the one which they most wanted to remake.United States nation brand was dropped into second place.

“Apple obviously attracted the hearts of million customers globally by leading the race in almost all the categories.Others top brands such as Microsoft and the USA nation brand, also lead the race, but considered most in need of a remake,” said Jim Thompson the editor of brand channel.

The economic brand value was not taken in to account, which usually puts Coca-Cola Co’s Coke in first place.One of the most amazing results from the survey was that some of the respondents thought that there was a brand named “green”.The result comes as a result of millions of dollars spent by some of the world’s largest multinational companies to give an image for their product as “eco-friendly“.

While considering Apple, an unknown reader said “there is always a rapid moment and the company does not face any dull situation.The company concentrated in innovating new products and provided a new perspective on what we thought was carved in stone.”

On the other hand, Microsoft had “lost its innovator position and has gradually become a follower,” said another anonymous reader.The other most inspiring brands followed by Apple were Coca-Cola, Google, Nike, and Starbucks, reported the survey.

The rankings were given by the online magazine brandchannel.com which was based on answers from almost 2,000 readers from 107 countries.The survey was conducted online from 24th February to 9thMarch.The new technology of Apple has made the consumers towards this higher opinion.

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Regulators of EU said that the company imposed “unfair prices” till last October to software developers, who wanted to develop products, which is well matched with the Windows operating system. This is the largest fine ever charged for an individual company.

Microsoft immediately responded to this issue by saying that the problem has been solved and the company was making its products more open to all.

The fine was imposed with in a week after Microsoft had announced that it is ready to share more information about its technology and products with a view to make it work better with competitor’s software and to meet the demands of European antitrust regulators.

But Neelie Kroes, the Competition Commissioner of EU remained unconvinced and said Microsoft was under investigation in two additional cases. “Talk is cheap, breaking the laws is expensive.” said Kroes

The actions of Microsoft had muffled new innovations and affected millions of people and software developers around the world, said Kroes. She called the record $1.3 billion fine “a reasonable imposition to a chain of quite unreasonable actions.”

“We thought of charging as high as $2.23 billion (1.5 billion euros),” she said.

“In the 50 years of EU competition policy, Microsoft was the one and only company, which was fined by the commission for the failure to abide by the antitrust decision,” said Neelie Kroes, the EU Competition Commissioner.

Microsoft fought tooth-and-nail against a March 2004 decision that led to a $613 million fine and an order that the company has to share interoperability information with its competitors within 120 days. The company lost the case in September and it was fined $357 million in July 2006 for the failure to comply that order.

The EU claimed that Microsoft’s action of holding back the imperative interoperability information for desktop PC software is an effort to suppress its competitors and to create monopoly.

Initially Microsoft charged 3.87 percent for royalty and 2.98 percent for information license. The EU warned the company that the rates were unfair and unreasonable. Fearing of penalty, two months Microsoft reduced the patent rate to 0.7 percent and the information license to 0.5 percent but only in Europe, leaving the prices of other countries unchanged.

“I hope today’s decision will be a dark chapter in the history of Microsoft” said Kroes.

“Microsoft has been misusing its powerful market position even after the commission’s March 2004 decision requiring it to change its practices,” Kroes told journalists.

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‘Microsoft’ and ‘Sony Ericsson’ in joint venture have launched their first mobile phone device, a ‘Windows Mobile Based Smartphone’ today at the ‘World Mobile World Congress’ at Barcelona.

This new “Sony-Microsoft Smartphone” will be a specific device for consumers having a special slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It also has features like touch screen, photo and music service that can easily be operated with the application of ‘Windows mobile Platform’.

Both the companies are planning to bring this Smartphone in to the worldwide markets sometime during the Christmas holidays this year.

With this commercial joint venture of Microsoft and Sony Ericsson will be extremely significant for Microsoft. Sony Ericsson will be the fourth major mobile manufacturer which will be making mobile phones running on ‘Windows Mobile’. Samsung, Motorola, and LG are the three other companies among the top five ones. The largest mobile phone manufacturing company, Nokia however uses ‘Symbian Operating System’ for its mobile devices.

Gartner’s statistics show that in the second quarter of the year 2007 almost 18.7 million Smartphone PDA units with the ‘Symbian Operating System’ were shipped. On the other hand nearly 4.5 million mobile devices with the “Windows Mobile Operating System’ was shipped in the same period.

Sony Ericsson is currently shipping almost 100 million phone units every year. With the introduction of new mobile phones in collaboration with the Microsoft the quantum is expected to increase substantially for each coming year. This way, Microsoft would also be sharing a bigger chunk of market.

Almost all the mobile phone devices manufactured by Sony Ericsson are currently using its own operating system. Its camera and music facilitating mobile phones are extremely popular around the world. The company though has some specific models based on the Symbian operating system that are exclusively oriented for professionals.

Microsoft is expecting to present a challenge before Apple with its consumer orientations and the Symbian for its enterprise orientation. This nice combination will enable the company to enhance its reach to both the levels at one time.”This is big news for Microsoft as they begin to court enterprise and business customer both”, says Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research.

For Microsoft it is going to be a psychological win, say some experts.

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