For starters, it's been a BIG couple of weeks in technology, both on the consumer level, and on the business level. Let's start with the consumers.
E3 just wrapped up, and Microsoft seems to have taken the collective award this year. Between their NATAL project, the announcement of another Halo game and Metal Gear for the 360, they've definitely piqued the interest of myself, and numerous others. Also on the Microsoft level, they're now giving away $10,000 to a user of IE8, if they stumble across the 'buried page'. Apparently, you can only find this page if you're an IE8 user, and if you do find it first, Microsoft is going to dish out $10,000. I'm pretty sure that other browsers have not ever had to do this to attract users, but Microsoft is great at throwing money at everything. Also, Bing has launched, Microsoft's new search engine. While it has not taken the throne from Google in any sense of the word, it has managed to pass Yahoo already, and seems to have regular, small growth in its user base every week. Finally, Windows 7 has been slated for an October 22nd release date here in the US.
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Next up is Apple. Their WWDC is over, and wrapped up. Of course, the pinnacle announcement is the iPhone 3G S, with its 16GB and 32GB variations. Sidelining that beautifully, in Apple fashion, is the new OS 3.0 update, toting such critical features as copy'n'paste, horizontal texting, MMS, and tethering. As far as the last two go, AT&T has been trecherously slow in implementing the features across the network, but as always, the user community has found their ways around that. Their new operating system, named 'Snow Leopard', is also making waves as well in comparison to Windows 7.
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