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Microsoft and Skype set to allow backdoor eavesdropping
Skype and Microsoft have managed to leapfrog common sense and build a backdoor into your favourite VOIP application. It is called Lawful Interception and is part of a new patent which Microsoft filed back in 2009, but is now preparing to unleash itself into our world due to its recent approval.Lawful Interception means that government agencies can, without your permission, begin tracking your Skype conversations. Calls can be covertly recorded and used against you in any circumstance. It is ...Office wars: Microsoft Office heads to the ‘cloud’
Microsoft has finally taken its well-known Office software to the Internet in a strike against Google's popular and free Google Docs.The move signals an increasing shift away from traditional offline computing to a computing experienced increasingly plugged into and reliant on the the internet. It also officially signals the start of a new front in the Microsoft-Google battle.Last year, Google made a play for the operating system market, a strike at the very heart of Microsoft. Google had announced that ...Microsoft close to US$7-8 billion Skype deal
A week has barely passed since news broke that internet telephony company Skype was potentially up for sale. Today those rumours were bolstered with the news that Microsoft is vying for the keys to the Skype offices.The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft, the oldest of all the tech giants is planning to buy Skype for a staggering US$7 to US$8 billion.The Wall Street Journal states – but cautions against believing - and other reports confirm that not only is ...Facebook and Twitter for X-Box LIVE comes to SA
Social media integration is all the rage. Only a few months ago Microsoft launched Xbox LIVE, an online multiplayer gaming network, in South Africa now it has announced the integration of Facebook and Twitter into the product."A 'My Community' channel will also be added to the LIVE Dash and will launch on both the Standard and Family Dashboards. This is part of our ongoing commitment to providing quality gaming and entertainment in the living room," says Microsoft South Africa.The ...ComScore: Microsoft’s Bing growing faster than Google
The latest US search engine rankings from comScore show that only Google and Microsoft grew their market share in October while Yahoo!, Ask and AOL all lost share.Top Search EnginesMicrosoft's Bing outpaced Google in October, adding 0.3 percentage points to 11.5% market share.Google increased its lead by 0.2 percentage points to 66.3%.Second placed Yahoo! slipped by 0.2% percentage points to 16.5%.Ask was in 4th place with 3.6% share, losing 0.1 percentage points.AOL was in fifth place losing 0.2 percentage ...Windows Phone 7 to launch in SA on two HTC devices
During a Microsoft event held in Johannesburg yesterday, Mobility Business Group Lead, Nkosi Kumalo and Business Development Manager for Windows Phone, John Press, announced details of the imminent launch of Windows Phone 7 in South Africa.Despite presenting a demo of Windows Phone 7 on a prototype LG GW910 or “Panther”, it was revealed that only two HTC phones with WP7 will be initially available to South Africans. The two phones are the HTC Mozart and HTC Trophy. While the Mozart ...Microsoft sends Office to the cloud
Microsoft on Tuesday sent its Office business suite into the cloud as it further adapted to a shift away from the packaged software on which the firm's fortunes were built.Microsoft Office 365 joined SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync programs that can be "rented" as online services, sparing companies the expense and hassle of buying, installing and maintaining the software on their computers."We embraced the cloud because we actually believed it would change the way people work," said Office division president Kurt ...Windows Phone 7, Kinect showcased at Microsoft Durban conference
Over 2 500 IT professionals and tech-geeks from around South Africa and the wider continent have converged on Durban's International Convention Centre for the 2010 installment of the annual Microsoft Tech-Ed Africa conference.The conference, possibly the largest IT gathering in Africa, kicked off on Sunday evening with a keynote address from Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Worldwide Services, Norm Judah. Judah is no stranger to South Africa: He earned his first degree (in electrical engineering) from Wits University before ...Kawasaki grills Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Vista
Duncan Mcleod of Fm Tech pointed me to this funny interview between Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. It's worth a watch, especially when Ballmer gets on his hands and knees during the interview, searching for the DVD drive on the Mac Book air. Ballmer also fields some tough questions about Vista.
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