Web portal MSN is testing a new search service that touts faster, tidier results, in what is the latest development in a fast-moving contest to help people find what they're looking for online.
Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
Windows Vista Home Basic is essentially warmed-over Windows XP, Windows XP SP3. If you're currently happy with Windows XP SP2, we see no compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if you need a new computer right now, Windows Vista is stable enough for everyday use.
Windows Vista Home Premium is essentially warmed-over Windows XP Home Edition. If you're currently happy with Windows XP SP2, we see no compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if you need a new computer right now, Windows Vista Home Premium is stable enough for everyday use.
Windows Vista Business is essentially warmed-over Windows XP. If you're currently happy with Windows XP SP2, we see no compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if you need a new computer right now, Windows Vista is stable enough for everyday use.
In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the Internet company's technology.
The major search companies have expressed varying ideas on how Web searching will evolve over the next few years, with MSN claiming that there will be significant changes in the user interface of search engines and Google contending that changes in the underlying technology will be more important.
Although it has taken Microsoft five years to develop the next version of Windows, the software maker seems to crank out a new Windows Live service every five minutes.
Overture Services, the commercial search arm of Yahoo, plans to automate a portion of its ad-bidding system in the next month, an executive said Wednesday.
Microsoft's failure to invest more in Internet search technology was the company's biggest mistake in years, a chagrined Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Thursday.
Craig Silverstein -- Google's technology director and employee No. 1 -- discusses the future of search.
In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant.
Microsoft's new batch of services borrows heavily from current or proposed products. Is Windows Live just another name for MSN?
Ten years ago, Microsoft executives worried that an Internet platform could threaten Windows. The nightmare now has a name: Google.
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