Skype is a proprietary Voice over IP service and software application. First released in 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. Since 2003 it has become a very popular application with 600 million users world wide. It 2011 it was purchase be Microsoft for $8.5 billion….
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Microsoft In The Cloud
Like Google, Microsoft has made a major investment in web applications. Beyond “Outlook” its web-mail client they now have “Office” apps on the web. Office 365 is the online version of “MS Office”. 365 has all of the applications that enterprise users have grown to love including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 365 also includes;…
Skydrive
The second storage app is SkyDrive. Microsoft’s Skydrive has been around for a few years but the user interface was not very handy for uploading large amounts of data. Now the Skydrive app sets a folder on your computer and what ever you put in it is backed up just like Dropbox. Skydrive gives you…
Windows 8
Windows 8 will be the latest Windows OS (operating system) when it is released, probably in September or October. For now we have the Consumer Preview to play with. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview seem like a release candidate to me. It is very polished, very fast and not buggy at all. Windows 8 is…
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