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1st it lost Mozilla to Yahoo Search, now it’s lost another major deal. Microsoft’s just announced it was handing over parts of its display advertising business to AOL. The latter was recently acquired by Verizon. As part of the deal, AOL will make Bing its default search engine instead of Google for the next decade.
Reports: Fortune, TechCrunch, Winnipeg Free Press, Business Insider
Microsoft has announced the official launch of Office for Android phone. It comes 5 weeks after the IT major rolled out the suite of apps in preview mode.
Reports: TechCrunch, TIME, Clapway
Encryption by default, that seems to be the new mantra of search engines. The latest to jump on the bandwagon is Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Later this year, all search results re-directed by Bing will be encrypted.
Reports: CNET, Small Business Trends, The Verge, PC World
It’s official. Microsoft Corp. said it was preparing Windows 10 for release on July 29 this year. The timing, said analysts, was to match with the back-to-school personal-computer season.
Reports: The Verge, V3.co.uk, Engadget, WHBL Sheboygan
Clutter was introduced to help users focus on the most important messages in their Inbox. It used machine learning to de-clutter the email by moving lower priority messages out of the way and into a new Clutter folder. From June this year, it will be a default feature for all users.
Software company Microsoft is going public with its list of Windows 10 planned SKUs, or editions. Not counting the 3 embedded/Internet of Things (IoT) versions, there will be 6 Windows 10 SKUs – Home, Mobile, Pro, Enterprise, Education & Mobile Enterprise, according to a blog post from Windows Marketing chief Tony Prophet.
Reports: Yahoo Tech, The Verge, The Inquistir, AnandTech