Microsofties tweet about a meeting
MICROSOFT EMPLOYEES have been blathering on about Bing 2.0 and ultrathin laptops using Twitter.
During an annual meeting held at a baseball field Microsofties who should have been doodling and trying not to fall asleep decided to tweet about what was going on instead.
The twits' tweets revealed some juicy details about what to expect from the firm in the coming months, including some scant details on the next release of the Vole's search thing, Bing 2.0. "Bing 2.0, out this month, has some exciting new features. Imagine seeing maps plus pics from the neighbourhood of a restaurant to try," tweeted Monte Enbysk, senior editor at Microsoft Office Live. We assume that he had just seen a demo of the new version and that it is due out 'this month'. Monte's status update appears to have been subsequently removed.
Software design engineer Sushil Choudhari was more enthusiastic and apparently listening a bit closer than Enbysk as he narrowed the release date down a bit. "Saw the demo of Bing 2.0, super impressive! Watch out its release next week!!", he twitted. We'll narrow it down further by saying that it will be out soon.
Another commented that he had seen a laptop running Windows 7 that was the 'world's thinnest'. That might have been just a stamped-on Iphone, however.
Who knows what really goes on behind those closed doors. µ
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I really think that Microsoft has quite enough money, and so do not see the point of exposing myself to more Microsoft-centric propaganda/advertising/whatever by patronizing their "johnny-come-lately" search engine and adding yet more dollars to their bank accounts.
I do get a kick out of their carefully-crafted "all shiny and new" exciting press releases. After all:
- Bing is just spray-painted Yahoo (with a Microsoft slant - what will they to with all of your search log records?).
- Windows 7 is just spray-painted Vista (or Mojave-2, Vista SP2, or whatever). Glorified WinNT (and insecure to boot).
Since Yahoo has been borged -- I mean "binged" -- that leaves Google, who has adopted the business ethic of "do no evil". Of course, Microsoft seems to have few business ethics, therefore I hope people continue to use Google, and let Bing fail like so many lines of IE6-specific "MS-HTML". None of this is important if people just ignore them and go about their business using Firefox, Opera, or Safari and OpenOffice on their WinXP, Linux or Mac systems.
I remember people thinking that Microsoft was in a losing venture with its XBox platform too. Who knows, maybe they'll come out on top, or second in command. They have the resources to do it definitely.
"Imagine seeing maps plus pics from the neighbourhood of a restaurant to try"
Wow! I can really imagine it! Or wait, maybe I'm just remembering using Google maps earlier today... yeahhh.
buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, err Poppycock, err Crunch N Munch, err some of the Kernals' delicious popcorn.
"If you rebuild it, they will succumb".
__from the "Field of Schemes"