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Submission + - Microsoft unveils new search: Bing (msdn.com)

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JacobSteelsmith

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @12:16PM

JacobSteelsmith writes: "Microsoft is attempting to re-brand it's Live Search, also known as Kumo. Bing, as it's known, is another attempt by Microsoft to lure consumers away from Internet search leaders such as Google. Microsoft has posted a quarterly loss in it's online advertising business, compared to Google's sales, $4.7 billion in the first quarter.

According to the Live Search blog, Bing goes "beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions" by combining a "great search engine" with organized results. It also adds unique tools to help the user make important decisions. It is being touted as a "decision engine." A video can be viewed at http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html."

Comment Microsoft Sharepoint (Score 1) 396

by SNiPeuR on Sunday February 10, 2008 @05:21PM (#22373018) Attached to: Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0

The portal solution from Microsoft, know as Sharepoint does have rendering bugs in the latest build of Firefox (under Windows XP), it's really a shame since many people have to use it, it's not like a writing application like Word for which you can find free equivalents, it's a business portal and you have to retrieve informations on it!

Submission + - Why do games still have levels? (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by a.d.venturer on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @11:46PM

a.d.venturer writes: Elite, the Metroid series, Dungeon Siege, God of War I and II, Half-Life (but not Half-Life 2), Shadow of the Colossus, the Grand Theft Auto series; some of the best games ever (and Dungeon Siege) have done away with the level mechanic and created uninterrupted game spaces devoid of loading screens and artificial breaks between periods of play. Much like cut scenes, level loads are anathema to enjoyment of game play, and a throwback to the era of the Vic-20 and Commodore 64 when games were stored on cassette tapes, and memory was measured in kilobytes. So in this era of multi-megabyte and gigabyte memory and fast access storage devices why do we continue to have games that are dominated by the level structure, be they commercial (Portal, Team Fortress 2), independent (Darwinia) and amateur (Nethack, Angband)? Why do games still have levels?

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