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Bing Gets Complete Design Overhaul Adds up Social Sidebar, resembles Google

by varma May 11, 2012
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The search engine space is heating up, and Microsoft is spicing up their search engine BING with a complete overhaul of the design, bring up personalized and social features to it. The new redesigned search pages of Bing will remind you about the old Google search result pages. The new design has three parts the core search result, snapshot area and social sidebar panes. While the search results seems to be not changed completely the listing of the results have improved with lots of personalized results. A snapshot area in the middle of the page that aggregates the additional features

Microsoft Unveiled Windows 8 Consumer Preview – Available for Download

by varma February 29, 2012
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Microsoft has officially launched the public beta or consumer preview of their latest operating system Windows 8, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Finally general public has got a chance to download the preview version and try out the new operating system for free, ahead of its launch. The new OS from the Microsoft family brings out lots of changes to the traditional OS we are using till now. It features an awesome Metro UI, bringing in touch-friendly apps, enabling support for tablets. Also for PC lovers, it has also got the enriched old user interface. Now coming to the

Microsoft Store India Got Hacked – Sensitive Information Stolen

by varma February 13, 2012
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In a major event today hacker group calling itself Chinese Evil Shadow Team has struck and hacked down Microsoft Store in India (www.microsoftstore.co.in) causing highly sensitive information’s like login ids and passwords of users who had used the website for purchasing Microsoft products to be stolen. According to a online report from Wpsauce who first reported this hacking “It has been hacked by EvilShadow team – 7z1&Ancker. From the tiny little flag and blog links, it looks like the hackers are from China. Their motivation is unknown at this point.” The site is not run by Microsoft, but Quasar Media, an Indian company

Microsoft Attacks Google on Privacy Policy Change using NewsPaper Ads

by varma February 3, 2012
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Google some days ago released its newly updated privacy policy and terms of service, which consolidated more than 60 main Privacy Policy from its various properties into one simple, easy understandable and user-friendly manner. These changes will take effect from March 1, and they are starting to notify users through email and notice on Google’s homepage.  One of the changes they made was combine information users provided from one service with information from other services. In short, Google treat them as a single user across all its Google products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience. This has