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MSN Soapbox Closing Down

Microsoft loses the battle against Youtube. MSN will no longer offer Soapbox, the user generated video service within MSN Video, as of August 31, 2009. Beginning on July 29, users will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox. People who have uploaded videos to Soapbox will have until August 31, 2009 to download [...]

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Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft

The Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, first unveiled Bing last Thursday at a California technology conference and the early reactions have been very positive. New search engine, that aims to rival Google, will replace Live Search. Live Search maintains just an 8.2% share of the market for core searches. According to Microsoft, Bing will offer search [...]

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Encarta Dead

Encarta, Microsoft’s popular encyclopedia will be discontinuing later this year. Microsoft has made this announcement confirmating that Wikipedia is the world’s definitive reference guide. Microsoft has said “Encarta has been a popular product around the world for many years. However, the category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed. People today seek and consume [...]

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MSN Mobile

MSN Goes Mobile MSN has launches its new Mobile Portal with a new design . Users of Windows Mobile Phones can access mail, search, news, stock and weather information from mobile devices without charge. (Only data charges). The service is financing throught advertising. Spaces mobile version has several new interesting features. Also there are maps [...]

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