Microsoft working out on online Chat Service Skype

Wall Street is warming up to Microsoft Corporations $8.5 billion purchase of online Chat Service Skype.

After opening upset at the price more than double its likely public appraisal investors think Microsoft made a smart move buying advanced communications technology it can put into its products along with a all set base of users. But there are still concerns the world's biggest software company with a patchy record on pleasing consumers and making purchasing job can really pull it off.

Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and Skype's US base in Silicon Valley are buzzing as the two companies start the process of working together. Skype chief Tony Bates has been in Redmond with his team for much of the past two weeks, after the deal closed.

Most expect Skype video chat and messaging will begin to appear soon on Xbox game consoles, Windows phones and Windows Live messenger, and shortly as an expansion to its Lync messaging and video chat service for businesses.

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Glance hooked on Windows 8

Microsoft provided another glance at revolutionizes approaching with the subsequently creation of Windows software that controls nearly all of the world's computers. 

Microsoft is building major improvements to a solution Windows Explorer file running program to enhance how it interrelates with the coming Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 is about reimagining Windows, so we took on the face to improve the most extensively used desktop tool in Windows. Windows Explorer is a foundation of the user skill of the Windows desktop and has undergone a number of design changes over the years, but has not seen a substantial change in quite some time. 

A direct ribbon for commands was added to make them more easily easy to get to to people other than "power users" common with Windows Explorer shortcuts. Windows 8 builds upon many of the features in Microsoft's latest mobile operating system for smartphones, Windows Phone 7, including the use of touch "tiles" instead of icons to launch and navigate between applications. 


Microsoft in June provided the first sneak peek at the successor to Windows 7, a after that making operating system planned to work on both personal computes and touchscreen tablets. Sinofsky confirmed some of the features of the operating system regulations named Windows 8 at a D9 technology conference. 

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Microsoft’s Samuel Miller, Google is a monopoly

As per Samuel Miller, the prosecutor who led the federal government's first antitrust case against Microsoft more than a decade ago that Microsoft has amazingly in its quarrel that Google is a foul monopolist. Miller served as the lead counsel in the first United States vs. Microsoft case, which the Department of Justice. It was the first in a series of landmark legal clashes that finally ended in 2001 with a consent decree constraining Microsoft's business practices.

Miller says, "Having prosecuted the Microsoft case, its seems to me that Google, as a monopoly, is engaging in the same tactics to keep its dominant position as Microsoft was engaging in, Those are the same tactics that got Microsoft in trouble." Miller deems all of Microsoft's urgings are "Valid and worthy of serious consideration."

Microsoft chief counsel Brad Smith mentioned several examples of what his company claims are Google's unfair business practices. Microsoft says, As a result, Google's search results for You Tube videos are better than its competitors. It says, Microsoft claims that Google undermines its competition by entering into exclusive agreements with websites to power the search boxes on their sites. The company has locked up so much real estate on European's leading websites that rivals can't get a foot in the door.

In answer, Google did not bear out Microsoft's claim. But the company notes that the results of a You Tube video search on Bing look, to a layman, much the same as Google's search results.

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