Google and Microsoft want the messages to Twitter. Currently the two main engines of the world, placing in orbit of Yahoo Bill Gates, looking for web sites, videos, books, music, news … and now they have launched a hunt for private messages. Must be negotiated.

The aim is to use the information produced by the “twittered” in their engines búsqueda.En both Google and Microsoft Bing have the same goal: to know what your messages are interested Twitter users to provide books, movies, cars, trips that might interest them most in terms of what they say in their messages.

The possibilities are immense. A group of Twitter friends comment on a trip to Thailand. from search engines are offered seats on airlines, hotels, sightseeing excursions, money exchange …

A group of users are at dinner. They offer restaurants. They say that like an Italian. For all the Italians in the area. They are also in the case of Google, located by GPS. Business round. The question is what wins Twitter. That is the question. Of privacy or talk.

Microsoft bid to allow installation of other browsers first against the idea of creating a Windows 7adaptado to Europe.

Windows 7 is the same everywhere. Microsoft has announced that it will not release the E, the latest edition of its popular operating system, one of the ideas that were discussed and it seemed the most appropriate to respond to requests from the European Commission.

Redmond had chosen to launch Windows without a browser until last week when the possibility emerged to offer multiple browsers on users, then published as Silicon News.

This is the latest venture that will launch a global version of the OS, which in Europe include the option to install other browsers.

Thus, Microsoft could please both Europe and the equipment manufacturers, who complained of the expense that they would include two different versions of the operating system depending on the market you would get the computer.

For several years, these companies have traveled parallel paths. Today they are totally ignored. Who will win in this fight? Users.

Until a few years ago, Google and Microsoft were just away from the teeth; products and services giant ran along both parallel and occasionally stepped terrain of the rival, but without causing major havoc.

However, these small skirmishes and became an open war, being waged in the most sacred of the two companies: the fields of search, the heart of Google’s business, or of operating systems (Windows) and office applications (Office), the major generators of revenue for Microsoft.

Moves in this chess are increasingly bolder. Microsoft charged in late May with a new browser, Bing, who was welcomed on the market, although still without affecting the interests of Google, which leads this segment with a share of 65 percent.

Google’s response was blunt in July: Announced that it is creating an open operating system, OS called Chrome, which will compete directly with Windows.

Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft, ironically a few days ago on Chrome OS. “Do not come within a year and a half and already announced an operating system,” he said at a conference of members of his firm in New Orleans (USA).

However, a few days later, Microsoft moved their chips with the same strategy, announced well in advance, which will launch a free version of Office, which will be used directly on the Internet, as currently offered by the software program Google Docs. This new Office will be released in 2010.

The battle between the two giants did not take too long. Google has a little over 10 years of life, while Microsoft was born in 1975. But the age is not respected in the business world.

So Google, the company that founded the university talented Sergei Brin and Larry Page, became a serious enemy of the empire of Bill Gates, who until a few years ago seemed unbeatable.

The following are the major moves in the chess match being waged these two companies. The game still has no winner, but users do not want to end because each move the board makes a new product that almost always, is free.

Search Engine

Google, with its simplicity, speed and a revolutionary way to rank search results, has been unstoppable. Appeared in September 1997, when Yahoo was the leader, and today hundreds of millions of searches are conducted daily with him.

It is the major source of revenue for Google, by selling paid links that appear on search results pages. Bing, of Microsoft, is the latest attempt by the signature of Bill Gates to improve its position in that business.

Bing (www.bing.com) debuted last month and was surprised because it significantly improves the capabilities of its predecessors. However, the U.S. version is more refined than those of other regions (eg Latin American), so we will have to wait to see their full potential.

The operating system

In early July, Google announced that Chrome will launch the 2010 OS, an operating system for PCs initially will be offered in miniportátiles (netbooks), and whose focus is the work on the Web

Steve Ballmer, the ruler of Microsoft, said in the tone of mockery: “I will be respectful,” he said to bite the tongue, causing laughter in the audience, does anyone know what this is. ”

The truth is that Windows accounts for 90 percent of the market for operating systems, so even if Chrome OS comes free market, it is very difficult to break this dominance in the world of PCs.

Office applications

This month, Microsoft said it will launch a free version of Office 2010, which will run on the Web (it will be used through the browser). With this decision, Microsoft moved their pieces to a strategic area of the board, but it is a risky gamble: Office is one of the main generators of income for Microsoft, and if people start to use it for free …

In its online version, Office will compete with Google Docs, a product that came out three years ago and which offers programs for creating web text documents, work with spreadsheets and manage presentations.

Office 2010 will remain a safe product to install on the PC, but its online version will seek to encourage teamwork.

Email

When Gmail (from Google) erupted in 2004, the supremacy of Hotmail seemed threatened. Gmail offered 1 GB of storage capacity at a time when companies like Microsoft and Yahoo just delivered between 2 and 4 MB (1 GB is 1,000 MB). He also presented a new method to sort the messages by conversation.

Hotmail (now called Live Hotmail) announced this year unlimited storage capacity, while Gmail offers a little more than 7 GB. Both include several features, like spam filters and labels to sort the messages.

With over 300 million users, Hotmail Gmail still outperforms by a wide margin. However, neither is the leader: according to figures from ComScore, Yahoo leads the market in the world, but Google has the largest growth rates.

Messaging and chat

Live Messenger (from Microsoft) is unbeatable, by far dominates the preferences of Internet users around the world. Google Talk, which debuted in May 2005, can not win the sympathy of the users.

Both enable voice and video conversations, but Messenger can be played online, share photos and mandar emoticons (animated icons that represent expressions or feelings), among other things. Google Talk, for its part, is betting on simplicity.

The browser

-Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft debuted in 1995 and dethroned in a couple of years to Netscape, the browser most popular at that time.

Between 2003 and 2004 reached its highest peak, accounted for 95 percent of Internet users. It should be remembered, of course, that comes preinstalled on the operating system used on the planet (Windows).

Today the popularity is low because the other browsers (especially Firefox) have taken large slices of cake. Hence, Chrome, Google’s was only a threat (and not the most important) for Microsoft.

The Chrome browser debuted in September 2008 and was notable for its speed, a novel way of displaying the navigation tabs and a utility for working with Web applications.

According to the firm Net Applications, in his report of May 2009, Internet Explorer remains the favorite of users, but now only 65.5 percent of the market followed by Firefox (22.5), Apple Safari ( 8.4) and Chrome (with just 1.8 per cent).

The importance is being given to the future operating system, Google is such that its failure would be a blow to Mountain View. It is true that promises, but here are some doubts about this project.

1. Another operating system?

Does the world of computers operating system? Google Chrome proposed as a lightweight alternative OS and designed to serve web applications, but many users still do not understand what this means. Where Chrome do not you make a much higher speed or a high level of efficiency gain (from installation to implementation), what effect would this project?

2. Open source does not mean success

In fact, Chrome is based on OS and open source is great news. But does the world need another distribution of Linux computing stylized?

We still have no reason to believe that Chrome will be different from other OS ‘distros’ as Ubuntu, Red Hat or Moblin. Moreover, experience indicates that many users, especially those who do not have to learn more about these systems, have decided to uninstall Linux on their laptops to meet again with Windows. Sometimes diversity is more a synonym for more confusion.

3. What about Android?

Have we missed something?, Not making the eyes of Google in the market for Netbooks with Android? It is true that this system is largely focused on the segment of mobile devices with Internet connection, but the company (and other manufacturers) had in mind a future amended version for laptops. Some analysts say that Chrome finish OS Android diluting the brand, but first we will create a major confusion in the Linux market.

4. Major media noise

The media, among which we include, we called Chrome to OS as the next big step for Google. Failure to provide everything that is expected of him, if not significantly improve the user experience may be considered a flop. While not enough, Google is risking a lot with this platform.

5. Google is not a vendor platforms

Google builds web applications, but not platforms. A Web application may fail, but a platform. And, but that is to say what Microsoft screenshots and blue (Blue Screen of Death). If something similar happened to you Chrome, users will quickly revert to Windows, Mac or any other Linux distribution more robust.

6. The weather does not play for Google

The company does not expect Chrome Os available by the end of 2010, but many analysts agree that would probably not be ready until 2011, because the process will also come into play as other segments of the hardware or driver development. This leaves enough time for Windows 7 or any other platform Mac and Linux to settle in the market for laptops. In fact, when Chrome exits the OS market might be outdated from the moment given the high level development of hardware that is experiencing this segment of computers.

7. Worsening relations with Apple

Google and Apple have gone hand in hand from long ago to fight Microsoft. While the former did it through the search market and Web applications, the second was instructed to do so in mobile consumer electronics with products like the iPhone and the iPod.
The announcement of Chrome OS was a turning point in their relationships, and even the figure of Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and also belonging to Apple’s executive team is fading.
In this way, Google and Apple could become competitors, thus reducing the force with which he fought against Microsoft.

8.  Clouds for an operating system based on the cloud?

Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions running on an independent internet. Meanwhile, Chrome OS will be based on the Web, so you need to deploy all their Internet functionality. What will happen to those users who for some reason and can not connect?

It is clear that Google knows it, and implement eg Google Gears to enable offline functionality, but this way of working is limited to users.

9. Chrome Is OS part of a simple ruse?

Several industry experts and even bloggers believe Chrome OS was created by the same reason that Google launched Google Apps: To distract. Some believe, in fact, that the movements of Google are just to distract through some Microsoft products that compete with the software giants. Meanwhile, Google continues to maintain complete hegemony in the market that actually gives you money, of Internet searches.

10. Failure is not an option for Google

Many people questioned the need to take the market Chrome OS, just as they have done with Android.
But the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has announced that the rules have changed, that Chrome will be the anti-Os system. Thanks to the leadership position it enjoys in the market for Google search, the company acts as if it is not too concerned about not getting their money with free software.

But it is also true that in this case the money is not everything. A failure in this important project to topple Windows could result in the loss of respect that has been reaping the signature on the relatively few years in the market and hence the beginning of its decline. Hence the failure is not an option for Chrome OS.

Almost a kilometer (917.6 linear meters of shelves) or, if preferred, 35,000 books. That is what Google has so far digitized the Library of Catalunya (BC) for two years and the agreement between the two agencies.

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“The institutions and private publishers have realized that these books do not worry, well, it happens that those copyrights were sold because they can browse over the network since, as you would do in a physical bookstore, and people then buy them, “he said yesterday, Luis Collazo, director of Google Books Spain, during the presentation of the balance sheet. According to their figures, the network has 30 libraries that are in the same process that BC, measured in 20,000 private publishers participating in the project, more than eight million people daily access to search in Google Books approximately 100 million titles that they can dig into the network by this system. Collazo took the opportunity to present the Catalan version of the Google search engine (http://books.google.cat), which brings up to 42 languages in which it operates.

Most of the 35,000 books scanned from the BC, the director recalls, Dolors Lamarca, have been published in the nineteenth century, thus ensuring they are free from copyright. These include Don Joan de Serrallonga, Victor Balaguer (1868) and Catalan Chronicle of Ramon Muntaner, Spanish translation by Antoni Bofarull (1860). Lamarca estimated 100,000 titles to be digitized in the coming years.

In 2007, the Minister of Culture, Joan Manuel Tresseras, debuted with the announcement of the agreement. Yesterday, he returned to be to reaffirm the will to continue scanning. Therefore, he announced that the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) will be open in 2011 entirely by Internet. The counseling service also denied that the publications of the Government to reach an agreement with Google for digitization.

We know little of the new project of Google, but it will be based on Linux, extend the findings to the security of Chrome their operating system will boot in a few seconds and use the internet giant’s browser for everything you can. The idea that Google tries to sell us is that we do almost everything online, so you do not need the operating system is nothing but an interface between the machine and browser.

Beyond the economic consequences that this may have to move Microsoft in the short term it should serve as an argument against antitrust authorities, although they do not respond to reason but to suit the competitors of the company founded by Bill Gates. If Google announces a new operating system that consists of little more than a browser, how is that Brussels does not oblige Microsoft to tie Windows with Internet Explorer? Does Google bull, which will be integrated with the browser so that even the operating system will be named the same?

Argued a few months ago that Chrome was not a threat to Windows, but for the Explorer, and Google is expected to employ its capabilities as a company to preinstall its browser on computers, something no other competitor could Microsoft be able to do. Enrique Dans, however, saw it as a way to lose importance to the operating system up to “not care what brings me to run under my browser.” It seems that Google has reached the conviction that to achieve both objectives it is necessary to provide a complete system from the manufacturers and focus initially the market for netbooks.

The choice is logical. As much as we say that we do everything on the web, in reality this is not true. We do almost everything. And that remains nearly important enough for many users. But it is true that netbooks do not have power right now to just to access the web, mail and run office applications, but will have to see what can be done in 2010, when you come with Google’s operating system installed.

Bing and the online version of Office are the latest attacks Microsoft to sources of business from Google. But so far has failed, a company with the financial capabilities of Microsoft may end up right and doing much harm to Google. Moreover, as the years pass and, yes, we are increasingly moving our data and applications to the “cloud” is the abstract network, the importance of Microsoft is less and hence the bad image that remains for many. Hence, in Palo Alto have thought about moving to reduce the income of his rival, who are currently focused on Windows and Office.

In any case, as long as competition is so fierce, the users will benefit. Even if we do not use Bing, Google imitate their older hits. While Google Chrome does not install OS, Microsoft may be forced to lower their prices or ease Windows. Hopefully both companies survive long echándose garage at the helm.

As is clear from reading the statistics carried out periodically by Net Applications, Microsoft virtually has not moved in the ranking of search engines online, although some hundredth win overall.

This past May, they had not yet launched its new search engine, the two online search tools from the company (and MSN Live Search) had respectively 2.94 and 2.49% of the total market according to Net Applications This represents a 5.43% co. At the end of June, the same statistics as Bing has reached a market share of 5.31%, while Live Search (which continues active in some countries while in most parts of the globe and has been replaced by the new Microsoft search engine) holds 0.66% of the searches, which adds a 5.97% market share, barely a 0.66% increase on the previous month.

This can be seen as a failure in any rule where the multinational company headed by Steve Ballmer has invested so much time, money and marketing resources to promote the new tool. In comparison, its closest competitors (Google and Yahoo!) Took a 81.22% and 9.21% respectively of the market, having barely lost a few hundredths of a quota Bing.

I’m not saying that Microsoft has the tendency to invest in just one month, but it was expected that with all the resources invested in the new browser, that conquered the hearts of at least 2-3% over the public internet, to what it has far from come.

Nor is it easy to explain why they are suffering, someone could argue that the quality of results offered by Bing, while others might see the Internet are mostly faithful to the tools they use regularly. It is difficult to know for sure, while there are no detailed studies on the subject.

For the third lucky? Bing, the latest attempt by Microsoft to make a site on the search engines of war, it has tickled the giant Google. In its first month of life, Bing had increased its market share in the United States in April and 7.21% 7.81% in May to its predecessor Live Bing 8.23% in June.

42 tenths of its increase (in relative, with a 5.10% seems more important) coincides with the loss of 24 tenths of Google, which has come to dominate with a 78.72% to 78.48%. Apparently gains and losses seem ridiculous, but over the history of Google is unique in the months it has lost market. Despite the fact optimistic, Yahoo remains the second browser, and uploading (from 10.99 to 11.04), according to the scrutiny of StatCounter. And a shade more to Microsoft, the largest number of searches were conducted in the first week of operation, when it reached nearly 10% of the market.

As we know these figures are encouraging for Microsoft, announced that it will incorporate its search engine more information in real time, beginning with the most prolific twitteros a variety of areas noticeably. According to Sean Sucht, manager of Bing, “at first capture the messages of a few thousand people, elected by the number of followers they have and the number of messages they send.”

Microsoft’s strategy of attacking the weakest side of Google because your search engine does not provide direct information. Hence the success of Twitter in recent events such as the electoral crisis of Iran or some natural disaster. Also, for the same reason, on several occasions it was rumored that Google might be interested in buying Twitter.

If you installed any of Microsoft products such as Messager, you must beware !!! because Microsoft force their Bing Search Engine to replace your default Firefox addressbar to their Bing search Engine

Previously, whenever I type some keyword in Firefox addressbar and press enter, search engine used is Google search engine. But after doing some stupid Microsoft software download, whenever I type keywords in Firefox addressbar and press enter, search engine used has changed to Microsoft’s Bing search Engine !

Goshh !!! I never recalled changing it so I did a search and found the following solution…. But don’t worry, just follow this tips to remove Bing search engine from your Firefox addressbar

Type about:config in Firefox addressbar and search for “keyword.”

Make sure that keyword.enabled is set to ‘true.’ Right click on keyword.url which if you noticed above have been set to http://search.live.com (what a s**t !).

To remove this hijacked value, as mentioned above, right click on keyword.url and choose ‘modify’

Copy and paste – http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= to restore it back to Google. Close window and restart