Microsoft Bing Updates

[Sushubh]

https://broadband.forum/microsoft-extends-search-deal-twitter-47796/

 

[SVK]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/11/elop_axe_swinging_ceo/

What kind of company would Microsoft be under Stephen Elop, we asked? We have an answer – of sorts.
Elop would kill Bing and Xbox as a Microsoft chief executive and go "all business" by developing Office for as many non-Windows devices as possible.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-08/microsoft-ceo-candidate-elop-said-to-mull-windows-shift.html?source=email_rt_mc_body&app=n

Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft Corp.’s chief executive officer, would consider breaking with decades of tradition by focusing the company’s strategy around making the popular Office software programs like Word, Excel and PowerPoint available on a broad variety of smartphones and tablets, including those made by Apple Inc. and Google Inc., said three people with knowledge of his thinking.
Besides emphasizing Office, Elop would be prepared to sell or shut down major businesses to sharpen the company’s focus, the people said. He would consider ending Microsoft’s costly effort to take on Google with its Bing search engine, and would also consider selling healthy businesses such as the Xbox game console if he determined they weren’t critical to the company’s strategy, the people said.

Ofcourse this is just a rumor, and may not be true. Some analyst suggest that these rumors may be planted by his rivals to lower his chances of becoming MS CEO.
Some people could also say that Elop is now Trojan of Google or Sony (Playstation)

 

[Sushubh]

Nope. He is a trojan of Nokia. Nokia would wait for him to fuck up Microsoft and then they would swoop in and buy Microsoft.

 

[SVK]

I would love if Nokia buys out Windows Phone division from Microsoft
WP would be new Symbian then

 

[Sushubh]

Windows Phone is likely to do much better if it was owned by Nokia than what we have today.

 

[Sushubh]

Microsoft Bing can now do currency conversion calculations involving Bitcoin100.00 Indian Rupees equals 0.0024 Bitcoins

 

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[Sushubh]

Microsoft Bing now offer time lines for famous personalities

 

[Sushubh]

Microsoft Bing finally gets TinEye style image matching

 

[SVK]

Microsoft rebrands Bing apps under revamped MSN, coming soon to Android and iOS - CNET

MSN is having a make-over, and it's coming to a phone and tablet near you too. Microsoft is rebranding the Bing apps under the MSN and bringing them to Windows, Android, and iOS devices.

Report claims Microsoft's Bing apps to be fully rebranded with MSN name next week | Windows Phone Central

Microsoft may rebrand its previous Bing apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8.1, including Weather, News, Finance, Travel and Health + Fitness, with the new-old MSN brand sometime next week, according to a report from TechCrunch.

Microsoft removed the "Bing" brand from the titles of those apps back in April, and as we reported last week, Microsoft has already sent a notification to users of the Finance app that it will be getting the new name MSN Money in the very near future.

New website for MSN - msn

 

[amish]

They re-brand everything every 2 years. Dont know if this really benefits them.