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Microsoft excited to have Bing included in Safari search

Posted Jun.08, 2010 under Apple/Mac, Microsoft

Microsoft said on Monday that it is excited that that Bing will be included as a search option in Safari.

Speaking on the Bing Blog, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President, Online Audience Business Group said that Microsoft had been working closely with Apple to bring Bing to Safari. “We’ve been working with Apple over the last couple of months to deliver a fantastic Bing offering for Safari, including some awesome HTML5 work for Safari on iPhone, and we hope you will be pleased with the results,” Mehdi said.

Mehdi also hinted at an update for the existing Bing iPhone application. The update will include “even more great features very soon”, according to Mehdi. “Needless to say, we are excited that Bing will be included as an option in Safari because it will make it easier for you to search and get the benefits of Bing”. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Bing would be included as a search option during his WWDC keynote earlier today. “Microsoft has done a really nice job on this, it’s an HTML5 presentation, it’s great” said Jobs.

Bing will be included as one of the search engine choices within Safari on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC.

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Google set to mimic Microsoft’s Bing search backgrounds

Posted Jun.03, 2010 under Google, Microsoft

Google has revealed it plans to introduce search backgrounds for its search engine.

The feature, available today for those in the U.S., allows users to select their own background for the Google.com homepage or choose from galleries that Google provides. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has provided changing daily backgrounds since the service launched in May 2009. The backgrounds, with hand facts, have proved popular across the Internet with some choosing to archive the various International versions.

Google VP Marissa Mayer revealed the feature in a blog post on Wednesday. “For those of you who want to enjoy the clean, simple look of Google as well as your personalised view, we’ve made it easy to switch between your customised search page and classic Google. We hope you enjoy this fun new feature and that it makes Google search more your own” Mayer said.

Google’s custom backgrounds are being made available in the U.S. initially with International availability scheduled “in the coming days”.

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Microsoft offers PC makers Office Starter for $2, but with Bing bar

Posted May.11, 2010 under Microsoft

Microsoft is planning to offer PC manufacturers $2 per copy of Microsoft Office Starter 2010, if they pre-install the Bing bar and Windows Live Essentials, according to ZDnet.

PC makers can also opt to not install the Bing bar and Windows Live Essentials, but will pay $5 per copy of Microsoft Office Starter 2010.  A significant price difference when PC makers are purchasing licenses in very large quantities.

Microsoft strategy is to get their Bing search engine and other Windows tools, found in Windows Live Essentials like Movie Maker, Live messenger, Mail, Writer, etc onto PCs, increasing their marketshare for their products.  The installation will also set the default search engine on the users browser to Bing, and MSN as their homepage.

Note the acryonom use, OPC is OEM Partner Central, H&S is Home and Student, H&B is Home and Business, Pro is Professional. OPK is OEM Preinstallation Kit, the Office single image that OEM manufactures use to pre-load Office 2010 onto new PCs.

Microsoft will also be releasing Microsoft Office 2010 single-license key cards, which won’t actually contain any data on them, other than a serial key.  These key cards will be available in major retail stores, which will active Office 2010 on customers PCs.  Microsoft Office Starter 2010 comes with an ad-based version of Word and Excel, with limited functionality.  Users can unlock their copy of Office at any time.

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Microsoft unveils Spindex, a new social media tool

Posted May.05, 2010 under Microsoft

Microsoft has revealed its new social media tool called Spindex.  The idea is that the new tool will be able to take all of your social media connections and display them on one page from popular services like Twitter, Facebook, Bing, and soon to be many more services.

From Spindex’s landing page, “Spindex allows you to access and interact with your social networks, see trends from your friends, and see related info from Bing on literally everything you click on. Spindex proactively finds useful articles and information based on your interest in your friends’ messages and comments. It lets you find out more about the topics that your friends and feeds are talking about in one click – so you can jump into the conversation.

Make sense of your social overload, open your personalized Spindex page, and find out at a glance what topics are hot in your social world. You can also keep track of the things you are remembering via Evernote – right inside of your Spindex page. Spindex is not just a social reader – as you browse your friends’ updates, Spindex continually suggests related content from Bing – giving you better insight into the topics and trends spinning around you”

The idea, in a nut shell, will combine all of your favorite social media websites and display them on a single page. This should save you time and hopefully give you better access to all of your favorite websites.  While the service seems promising, implementation will be key to keeping the flood of information organized.

The service is being rolled out to only those who attend the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, but will be rolled out later to the general public.

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