From 21 September, it will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia. In other words, it will become CEO of Finnish mobile phone manufacturer. Originally from Canada where he studied computer engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Stephen Elop is preparing to expand his resume for a new experience. He has learned his trade from Juniper Networks, Macromedia and Adobe. He joined Microsoft in January 2008.

Strategically, this announcement comes just before the opening of the Nokia World 2010 event, to be held in London on 14 and 15 September. Many tech sites specifies that the successor to Microsoft executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who will leave Nokia, Sept. 20, and his seat on the board of directors.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo nonetheless retains a token on the board of directors of the subsidiary supplier Nokia Siemens Network, but without executive power. It will then quickly leave his employer, with whom he had a career of 30-year career, including four years as CEO of the group.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo pays particular loss of market share that the manufacturer has been having in recent years owing to stiff competition, particularly in the painstaking negotiation of the turn of smartphones in the company. Nokia does not reward its efforts unless a check for $ 4.6 million plus stock options of 100,000 distributed in 2007.
Stephen Elop will be the delicate task of putting Nokia on track of success. A journey that will pass through the development of tenders and Application Integration terminals in unified communications solutions making smartphones a complete professional tool for the corporate world still largely oriented BlackBerry.

Nick Jones, analyst for Gartner is giving mixed response on the appointment. “Microsoft has a lot of problems common to Nokia in terms of innovation, particularly in the area of smartphones. Steve Elop is American – investors appreciate this – but I’m not sure he brings specific skills challenges desired by Nokia.

Stephen Elop relationships with Microsoft, which ended on September 9 said that the Redmond company, will not necessarily part of the past. In August 2009, Nokia and Microsoft signed a partnership agreement to bring business applications (including Communicator Mobile Office suite) on Symbian OS terminals Serie E. An agreement signed at the time by a certain Stephen Elop.

Bing does not ties with Yahoo. Microsoft has indeed released in the United States a free mobile application of its search engine for smartphones Google Android equipped with a subscription to Verizon.

Downloadable from the Android Market under the name Bing App, this new version of Microsoft’s search engine for the mobile internet has a home page similar to that used for computers.

Bing App loads still some nice features, like the Bing Maps mapping service and search tool Bing Voice Voice Search.The mobile application also has a feature to quickly locate wireless hotspots available.

Access to the various search tabs (Images, Videos, Shopping, News, etc.) Has been simplified and a series of practical services such as search for points of interest through geolocation (shops, cinemas, restaurants) is highlighted.Last December, Microsoft had already pulled out its mobile application Bing for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The site virtual remote has demonstrated the detailed information on twozaic . The website informs that “Cloud view shows 20 tweets in a mosaic layout, with 3 levels of importance, currently based on the number of followers and favorites. Above is an example of the public timeline. The source of the timeline and the view can be changed by selecting the source and view in the title section

Read more about the software at Virtual-remote’s site. And also See screenshots there to understand everything more clearly.

More information is here also

In an official recruitment announcement, Microsoft recruiting test engineers to develop embedded systems Windows 8. Microsoft describes the Windows Embedded software test engineer duties, one of which said: “develop a program extended to other areas, including thin client, POS, multi-function printers and Windows 8 Embedded … …” This The first mention of Microsoft Windows 8 Embedded.

This is supposed to prevent attempted attacks through this vulnerability until the vulnerability patching forever.But the team of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) still needs time to find a sustainable solution.

On 16 July, Microsoft had issued a bulletin warning about a vulnerability in Windows Shell.

Through shortcut files, an attacker can execute arbitrary code and take control of a remote machine without the knowledge of its user.

This can go very quickly, “says the portal of the Information Security ANSSI : from the opening – using Windows Explorer – a folder containing shortcuts malformed, without any further user action is necessary.

An answer yet to be find out that all versions of Windows are vulnerable …?

In a presentation made to investors, Microsoft said the resumption of strong PC sales worldwide, with a one-year growth estimated between 22 and 24%, which resulted in a 26% increase in the number of licenses Sale OEMs. The publisher also states that it sold 1.5 million Xbox 360 consoles over the quarter and have more than 25 million subscribers to its Xbox Live service.

The division dedicated servers and associated tools for its part has reported revenues up 14% year on year, against 15% for the Enterprise Division, in which products such as Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM are made to increases two digits. Activities related to online advertising (Microsoft Advertising) know about them an increase of 19%.

??Download: Windows 7 SP1 Beta

??Microsoft has already informed that in July it would release Windows 7 SP1beta .Of course, after the release of SP1, Microsoft showed two small business edition server software experience. In which a code is called Small Business Server 7, is the existing Small Business Server products, upgrades to Windows Server, Exchange Server and other products into a single integrated server software portfolio.

??Another Code Aurora, main function is to assist local small businesses balance the workload of the client and the cloud. Aurora will allow the 25 units the following business PC users, in a local implementation of the document and the backup server functionality, while loading Microsoft’s online services and software, outbound connections by e-mail and other resources.

??Microsoft also promote Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 the beta test version will be released in September and will be used to support local clients and the cloud.?In addition, the focus of this conference, Microsoft’s pressure on the Azure, and expected in the future it will release a more comprehensive cloud OS.

Users will be able to install an earlier version of Windows for the entire life cycle of Windows 7. It clarifies Computerworld, the official term support version of Windows 7 Ultimate expire in January 2015. Support for Windows version 7 Professional will end in January 2020.

The reason for the extension of free transition Microsoft calls the popularity of XP from corporate customers. Thus, at the annual partner conference spokesman said that XP is still installed on 74 percent of business PCs.

At the same time Windows 7 was the most actively traded version of Windows ever. For seven months after the release of Windows 7 to market Microsoft had sold 150 million licenses for the new OS. Now it takes a total of 14 percent of the market.

By extending the period of transition to an earlier version of Microsoft encourages companies to buy Windows 7. Immediately after purchase, users can switch back to Windows XP, and then gradually move to a new version of the OS.

Previously, the right to use XP when buying a Windows 7 provides users with only 18 months since its release last to date version of Windows. So, back to XP can be up

“Companies will be able to continue to buy new PC and use the downgrade rights of end users for Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7. To allow such rights throughout the duration life of Windows 7 will make it easier for customers in their projects to deploy Windows 7 ” , Said Brandon LeBlanc, communications manager for Windows Client at Microsoft.

Windows XP Pro available until 2020

Remember, however, that today marks the end of life of Windows XP SP2 that will receive no updates. With SP3, Windows XP can still run its bump with all updates until April 8, 2014.Taking as reference the life of Windows 7 Ultimate, the downgrade rights to Windows XP Pro remain applicable until January 2015 to January 2020 (end of extended support) with Windows 7 Professional.

Yahoo News search will provide real-time recommendations

Currently, on Yahoo (Yahoo.com) enter your search keywords, Yahoo will give relevant search tips. Linda Wang explains the new features, and said: “For example, I want to know that in today’s World Cup match, the Dutch team and which team will play as opponent, I will enter the ‘Netherlands VS’, out of the first search suggestions is today’s game lineup. Click on the first search suggestion, I will be able to complete the search results page to see event information. ”
According to Linda Wang, this feature also deployed in the Yahoo news search service, helps users to find information more timely.

Yahoo’s search ad position will be consistent with Microsoft

In addition, Microsoft and Yahoo in search advertising partnership, the two of the many advertisers for search advertising alliance have many questions about the transition issues. This Microsoft employee Carolyn Miller, said in an official blog where customers need not worry now Union transition thing. Once implemented Yahoo search advertising alliance transition with Microsoft, Microsoft will provide notice by mail to all advertisers. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses the search agreement with Yahoo! and what it will mean to customers, advertisers and the industry.

Here is the press release :The Microsoft press release informs”Providing a viable alternative to advertisers, this deal will combine Yahoo! and Microsoft search marketplaces so that advertisers no longer have to rely on one company that dominates more than 70 percent of all search. With the addition of Yahoo!’s search volume, Microsoft will achieve the size and scale required to unleash competition and innovation in the market, for consumers as well as advertisers.”