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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Often called porn mode or secret mode, There are few names given to this. The latest version of the Apple Safari browser already has this mode and it works well on Apple OS.
It is now the turn of Internet Explorer to offer this facility to the Windows operating system users. The browser will offer the privacy mode so that information regarding the websites surfed on the browser is not avaiable.
Two new patents have been registered by Microsoft related to this feature, they go by the name - “Cleartracks” and the other by “Inprivate”.
Mozilla Firefox which is one of the most widely used browsers are in the process of developing this feature. The IE8 version by Microsoft is due to be released by december or early 2009.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Barry reported this on SearchEngineLand that, Microsoft announced a “back-to-school” promotion for using Live Search through the Live Search cashback portal. The promotion adds up to “double the cashback rewards on millions of products from hundreds of participating retailers.”
Example promotions include 36-percent off select shoes at Foot Locker, 18-percent off on Lenovo ThinkPad and 30 percent off on The North Face Doubletrack backpacks.
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Microsoft has agreed to provide monetary and technical support to the Apache Software Foundation, an open source effort that promotes community-built tools and services.
Jim Jagielski, Chairman of the ASF, had this to say about the sponsorship:
“We thank Microsoft for their generous sponsorship that goes towards supporting The Apache Software Foundation and the over 60 top level projects in use and development within the ASF,” said ASF Chairman Jim Jagielski. “The ASF Sponsorship program is an excellent way for companies and organizations to show their commitment and enthusiasm towards the ASF and The Apache Way, and helps to ensure that highly innovative, freely-available and community-based/consensus-developed software can continue to flourish and thrive within one of the most successful and respected communities in Open Source. Microsoft’s sponsorship makes it clear that Microsoft ‘gets it’ regarding the ASF.”
The European Commission, which already has imposed more than $1 billion in fines on Microsoft, earlier this year said it’s eyeing the possibility that the company is still violating monopoly laws by failing to make its products interoperable with competitors’ offerings and by illegally bundling its Internet Explorer Web browser with the Windows operating system.
Source: Information Week
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Seems like Google PageRank Killer has arrived, Microsoft announced its new tool something similar to Google PageRank called BrowseRank.
Acording to BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance, a paper from the SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) conference this week in Singapore.
“The more visits of the page made by the users and the longer time periods spent by the users on the page, the more likely the page is important. We can leverage hundreds of millions of users’ implicit voting on page importance,”.
Authors for the above PDF documents are Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, and Hang Li from Microsoft Research Asia and Ying Zhang of Nankai University, Zhiming Ma of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shuyuan He of Peking University.
Yes, this is something interesting and lets wish for the success of this technology 
!! I think Instead of working hard on finding PaidLinks Google is supposed to find something like this !!
Source: cnet
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