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The Firefox Campaign Trail: A Billion Downloads, A Billion Votes
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 30, 2009 8:28 PM / 7 Comments
According to the Mozilla Team and the Firefox Twitter account, the spunky orange browser will reach 1 billion downloads at approximately 3:45 a.m. PT tomorrow morning. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_firefox_campaign_trail_a_billion_downloads_a_b.php'; tweetmeme_source Continue reading »


Immersive Social Gaming: Twitter and Facebook on XBox
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 29, 2009 9:52 PM / 5 Comments
Companies in the internet TV space should start worrying. It seems Microsoft's foray into life streaming on the XBox 360 will arrive as early as autumn. As promised in early Continue reading »


Microsoft Page Hunt Game to Improve Search?
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 28, 2009 9:57 AM / 1 Comments
Microsoft just launched Page Hunt, a game that presents web pages to players and asks that they guess key words to hunt them down. In the past, RWW has covered Continue reading »


Microsoft to Bundle Firefox and Chrome with Windows?
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 24, 2009 1:42 PM / 21 Comments
In its effort to detangle itself from the ongoing proceedings of the European Union antitrust case, it seems Microsoft is offering to include rival web browsers in the Windows OS. Continue reading »


Microsoft Linux Release: Legal Pressure or Purely Selfish? (UPDATE)
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 24, 2009 10:46 AM / 1 Comments
Earlier this week Microsoft announced the release of 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code is meant to enhance Linux performance when virtualized on Windows Continue reading »


Are Microsoft and Yahoo Close to a Search Ad Deal Again?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 17, 2009 8:39 AM / 6 Comments
Today, a number of rumors about a potential partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft surfaced once again. Almost a year ago, after months of back and forth between Microsoft and Yahoo, Continue reading »


BingTweets: Microsoft Launches a Twitter Search Engine
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 15, 2009 8:15 AM / 9 Comments
Microsoft, in cooperation with Federated Media and Twitter, launched its own full-blown Twitter search engine today. BingTweets mashes up real-time Twitter search with results from Bing, Microsoft's new and increasingly Continue reading »


Bing According to Microsoft: Unique Visits Up 8% in June
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 13, 2009 11:35 AM / 9 Comments
We already knew that Bing, Microsoft's new search engine was doing quite well, but today, Microsoft released its own data about the state of the service. Bing launched just a Continue reading »


Microsoft Launches Office Web Apps and Office 2010 in Limited Beta
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 13, 2009 6:30 AM / 7 Comments
Today at its Wordwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Office suite has reached the 'technical preview' milestone, and that starting today the company will open Continue reading »


Remember Silverlight? Version 3 Launch and Features
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 12, 2009 9:48 PM / 2 Comments
Microsoft's Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 were released on July 9th to favorable reviews. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/remember_silverlight_version_3_launch_and_features.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; The original Silverlight shipped in Fall 2007 as Microsoft's first Continue reading »


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