FREE ANTIVIRUS FROM MICROSOFT

Free antivirus from Microsoft, Microsoft Security Essentials (codename: Morro), has been available in beta.

Not only its easiness to use, Security Essentials also provides a background scanner to find the virus, rootkits, and spyware.

This will complement the antivirus security features of Windows operating systems that have been there before, namely the Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, and Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

Apple To Push Microsoft

Newest operating system from Apple is ready to launch on August 28, 2009. The certainty of the launch time immediately triggers higher order of This "Snow Tiger".

This soaring is indicated by Snow Leopard pre sale at leading online store, Amazon.

Microsoft as one of the main competitor of Apple even receives the effects. This is because the Snow Leopard is displacing their flagship software, Microsoft Office 2007 from the top row of bestseller lists.

Some analysts also assess that the Snow Leopard is going to record high sales. Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffay institution predicts that the operating system also known as Mac OS X 10.6 is going to sell 5 million copies by the end of this quarter.

Munster added that initial sales of Apple's Snow Leopard advantage over Microsoft. This is because the operating system Windows 7 from Microsoft's newly released on October 22, 2009.

"Apple promote Mac platform as superior alternative to Windows in terms of the latest technology. The release of Snow Leopard is to keep Mac users get the latest technology rather than users of Windows XP or Vista," added Munster.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo Versus Google

Three leading technology companies make a joint-effort to fight against Google that is going to create a biggest virtual library in the world. Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo will sign an Open Book Alliance pioneered by the Internet Archive.

They oppose provisions of law that can make Google as the main source in most online activities. "Google attempts to make a library-system-monopoly," said the founder of Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, to BBC News television station , Friday 21 August 2009.

Bing Bumped Yahoo

Microsoft Corp only needs to take time less than a week to bump Yahoo Inc. Now its site Bing has become the second largest search engine in the world.

According to the report from StatCounter, Google still dominate the search market in the US by 71.47%, Bing 16.28% and Yahoo 10.22%.

"Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft) wants Microsoft to be the second largest search engine in the world in five years, and provide funds as much as US$ 40 billion to acquire Yahoo, but Bing seems to be faster and cheaper than predicted," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO StatCounter.

Bing is the upgrade of Microsoft Live Search. The upgrade, which previously used code name Kumo, provides advanced search by entering Bing Travel, Cashback, and Maps dor Enterprise.

Backed up by its marketing power, Microsoft is confident to replace Google as a market leader.

IE 8 released today

Microsoft Corp. launches Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) web browser  today (03/19/2009). This application can be downloaded from the Microsoft site since 09.00 o'clock Pacific time. 

This new version of the most widely-used browser in the world is freely available for those using licensed Microsoft Operating System. IE8 was undergoing testing prior to public for beta version for a year. 

Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, says IE8 will run with Windows Vista, the latest Microsoft Operating System , Windows XP, which is also still widely used. 

As published by Reuters, based on the latest survey by an information technology consultant Janco Associates Inc., the Internet Explorer has the market share 72.2 percent, far above Firefox from Mozilla Foundation  with 17.2 percent. While Chrome from Google Inc. has the market 2.8 percent, and Safari owned by Apple is less than 1 percent. 

Microsoft recently is hit by antimonopoli policies in the United States and Europe due to bundling the browser with the operating system. 

Last month, Google joined with Mozilla and Opera protested against Microsoft dominance in the browser market. In January, European submitted formal charges against Microsoft on the bundle between Windows and Internet Explorer, which is used in 95 percent of personal computers. 

IE 8 accommodates the expectation of the developers with the presence of Developer Tools, which can be tailored to  Visual Studio 2008. Software developers will take more benefit of this feature when creating and debugging a web application. Other feature that attracts is a good and interesting Tab Grouping