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  • Do you know Baidu?

    If no read this interesting inside thought on Baidu, the most popular search engine in...China.
    Yes Google is not as people think a dominant force everywhere. It seems that the question of Google buying will raise some issues and seems unlikely. Western culture is not an all advantage in the Asia.

  • Is IE 7 a Firefox Killer?

    This is an interesting thought by Preston Gralla on O'Reilly.

    Nobody knows really the answer yet, but if Microsoft can release IE7 quickly, including all the promises made to keep it more compliamt with the standards, and also ioncluding the cool new stuff like the thumbnails views and the tabbing, yes it should at least keep the standard user at home.
    The big question is to see if IE 7 as it was showed at the PDC will be fully powered only byVista and not with XP?


  • Microsoft embrace open source ?

    "MPI is key middleware that was designed by a consortia of all the supercomputing vendors in the 1990s to allow the easy portability of code. It abstracts away things like low-latency interconnect, and our focus is making it super easy for ISVs to move their code," Kyril Faenov, Microsoft's director for High Performance Computing, told eWEEK in a recent interview at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash.

  • Bindows

    No it's not a typo it's really Bindows ( I guess an armada of faithful Microsoft lawyers are on their way to their office by now).

    Bindows using AJAX is an api to let you running desktop applications in a webpage. But hey at an heavy cost of 695$!

    The Bindows™ Framework provides you with:

    • A class based, Object Oriented API
    • A complete windowing system with a wide array of supported widgets including menus, forms, grids, sliders, gauges and more.
    • The leading toolkit for developing zero-footprint SOA client-side applications.
    • Native XML, SOAP and XML-RPC support
    • Single user to enterprise level support.