This Tuesday a Texas court ruled that Microsoft can no longer sell Microsoft Word in USA because of a patent infringement (U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449). Canadian based company i4i accused Microsoft of willingly violating this patent on a method for reading XML. Microsoft was found guilty and ruled to pay $240 millions, plus other fines for each day before the final judgment. Moreover, they can’t sell Word versions that break the patent.
You can read more about this here and here.
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There is a new search engine in town. It’s called Bing, and was created by Microsoft. Looks like they are going to invest massively in advertising it; according to AdAge, it will be between 80 and 100 million dollars.
You can find a short video here, with Stefan Weitz, the director of Windows Live, talking about what this new search engine bring new.
In addition you can find an article about comparison searches with Bing and Google, here.
Go Bing!
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In perioada 6-8 aprilie va avea loc la Bucuresti la sediul Uzinexport un training de Introducere in .NET, sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania. Dupa cum explica Zoli pe blogul sau, acest training este
dedicat programatorilor începatori, juniorilor din firmele de software, programatorilor de FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, dar si programatorilor care nu au reusit sa treaca de primele versiuni de .NET (1.0, 1.1…). Sunt bineveniti si programatorii de aplicatii web, care dezvolta în PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl etc, si care vor sa se familiarizeze in ASP.NET, Silverlight si restul platformei Microsoft.
Subiectele tratate in curs vor fi:
- Programarea Orientata Obiect (OOP) cu C#
- Platforma .NET
- Limbajul C#
- Programarea web cu ASP.NET
- Programare vizuala
- ADO.NET si acces la date
- SQL Server si elemente de Business Intelligence
- Dezvoltarea de servicii web si elemente de SOA
- Programare pe SharePoint
- Programare pe Windows Mobile
- Dezvoltarea de Rich Internet Applications (RIA) cu Silverlight
- Dezvoltarea de aplicatii compatibile cu Windows 7 si Windows Vista
Cursul fiind sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania, taxa de participare este de doar 150lei (lei noi, include TVA).
Informatii detaliate despre acest eveniment gasiti pe blog-ul lui Zoli.
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