July 13, according to foreign media reports, market research firm Caris & Co. Analyst 桑德普阿格 Walla (Sandeep Aggarwal) recently said in a research report, Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect somatosensory peripheral launch voice after the first year, the video game will likely prompt the user spending to reach $ 2 billion, of which $ 1 billion revenue will Kinect for Microsoft.
Agger Walla said, Microsoft Kinect is expected to be launched at the end, priced at $ 149.
Agger Walla help Microsoft Kinect noted reasons revenue is mainly reflected in four points. First, Microsoft's Xbox 360 has a 40 million user base. He expects the first year there will be 15-25% of Xbox users will buy Kinect. As the number of users is calculated at 15%, then this part of the users will bring $ 900 million hardware sales revenue for Microsoft.
Secondly, home games occupy a higher user adoption and market share, which will contribute to the promotion of Kinect. Agger Walla is expected that Microsoft will sell $ 300 million worth of one million sets of home games in the first year. In addition, the new game software sales will also be profitable for Microsoft. Finally, Microsoft's Xbox game console attrition rate is low, and has a faster pre-growth.
Agger Walla also cited optimistic about Microsoft's shares rose six reasons:
Strong demand for users of Windows 7; company for improving equipment technology; threats iPad and Tablet PC is the past tense; Microsoft's new Azure platform and Office 2010; Bing market share growth; Microsoft's focus on cost control and stock buyback ; Agger Walla Microsoft still maintained Buy rating and $ 37 price target positioning.
In an interview with foreign famous game site IndustryGamers interview, Michael Pachter said XBOX successor at the end of 2012 offering for Microsoft does not make much sense, on the contrary, he was very confident that Microsoft will issue an updated version XBOX360 host. In recent weeks rumors about Microsoft's next-generation home console noisy cloud, multi-channel news source claims that Microsoft's next-generation home console will be available by the end of 2012, to Nintendo's new console Wii U a heavy blow.
Recently reported Ubisoft Montreal studio has got Microsoft's next-generation console development kits, the new host will be announced in 2012 and rumored sale from Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter is an industry clearly has a different view.
In an interview with foreign famous game site IndustryGamers interview, Michael Pachter said XBOX successor at the end of 2012 offering for Microsoft does not make much sense, on the contrary, he was very confident that Microsoft will issue an updated version XBOX360 host.
"These rumors are silly, sales of Microsoft XBOX360 host remains stable before XBOX360 console sales did not begin to slow down, Microsoft will not issue a replacement XBOX360 host, I think these rumors are based on Microsoft XBOX360 console will now be customized run on Windows 8 system, I'm looking forward to an upgraded version of Microsoft XBOX360 console will be available in the winter of 2012, but I do not think we can offer Microsoft's new host in 2014. "
Editor Comments: The new host Xbox can now say crazy pass, as Win8 system with no estimated had the answer. Today Xbox3601 very stable sales in next year launch a new host that is not possible, besides Sony has not announced a successor to the PS3, the Sony can not see any action before, Microsoft is not hands-on.
May 17, according to foreign media reports, according to Russia's "Move evaluation" publisher Eldar Murtazin published a blog post that Microsoft will use $ 30 billion acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone division. The deal will be completed within this year, because both sides are eager to make the deal. However, Murtazin's blog does not mention $ 30 billion figure. This figure comes from SoftSailor website. This site does not disclose the specific sources. Murtazin happened in the past with Nokia quarrel and had published an article entitled: article "Nokia destruction of a large company," the. Therefore, it is easy to ignore his rumors, rumors that he was to provoke Nokia. However, some predict Murtazin Nokia recently presented is accurate. For example, he predicted that Nokia will replace CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo). Nokia really took over in September last year Kallasvuo with Microsoft's Stephen Elop (Stephen Elop). Last December, Murtazin predicted Nokia will provide a complete product line of Windows Phone handsets. This prediction became reality: Elop announced in February this year, Nokia will Windows Phone as its smartphone operating system. Murtazin also predicted that Nokia will withdraw its Ovi brand for online stores. This prediction on Monday has become a reality. After Elop as Nokia CEO, Murtazin is not the only one who predicted that Microsoft will acquire Nokia. However, he was the first to acquire this stamped person. Speaking to predict a specific time, Murtazin Elop is expected to resign before the end of next year to leave Nokia.
Beijing on June 5, according to foreign media reports, the U.S. technology blog site Winrumors reported that Microsoft will announce an Xbox LIVE pay-TV services on next week's E3 Expo.
Sources said Microsoft will likely show pay-TV service, if there is no agreement, Microsoft may delay disclosure of the details.
It is reported that Microsoft's pay-TV service called "Xbox LIVE Diamond", set Xbox LIVE and Microsoft's "Media House IPTV services" in one. Winrumors said, "Microsoft's Avatar Kinect may show the depth of integration services and audio and video services."
Microsoft has been recommended to the media company "virtual cable company" service can also be provided to existing cable subscribers, enabling them to watch videos, communicate with Xbox LIVE friends.
Microsoft's Frank Shaw, vice president of public relations (Frank Shaw) official blog post earlier this week, said the company's entertainment-centric strategies to Xbox, "Xbox is a user accesses the game, channel music, movies and TV shows, Briefly of, it is the entertainment center and we will announce next week an important entertainment services on Xbox E3 show. "
Opening E3 Expo on June 7, Microsoft is expected to be announced Xbox LIVE pay-TV service on June 6 at a media conference. Apple on Tuesday confirmed that the company will showcase iCloud Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference, iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion.
Yesterday afternoon, David Wade • Wana general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe Beijing received a CNET News, including a small number of media interviews.
In response to "How do Microsoft Silverlight brings competition" issue raised by CNET News, David Wade Wana that "I can provide a set of arrays to describe the contrast Silverlight and Flash, Silverlight since its release, Flash applications, such as video to actually increased its market share, increased from the previous high of 65% to 75%, while the share of Windows Media Player Farr declined from 24% to 12%. "
The reason for this, said David Wade Vannes, "Adobe application, workflow designer in both the core competitiveness and unique, although inside the traditional Microsoft developers have progress, but we can not forget the open platform above, there are 90,000 developers, whether they are using Java or PHP. "
David Wade Vannes also introduced Adobe and Microsoft in the mobile market, "we believe, Windows mobile is a good mobile platform, we also believe that its market share will be maintained. Adobe and Microsoft have been in multiple surface has cooperation and hope Adobe seamlessly run on the Microsoft platform. "
According to reports, this year at a general meeting held on Adobe, Adobe Nokia, Motorola, and Microsoft mobile platform above demonstrates Flash and other products.
June 27, according to Reuters, UKOM / Nielsen (UK network Investigation Agency / Nielsen) said that with the influx of a lot of people over the age of 50 social networks, Facebook has surpassed Microsoft last month to become the UK's second after Google large sites.
UKOM / Nielsen said in May the number of Facebook users visit the UK reached a record 26.8 million, an increase of 7%. Microsoft's MSN / WindowsLive / number of users will be of 26.2 million, the number of users accessing Google UK was 33.9 million.
British Twitter users jumped by a third to 6.1 million. UKOM / Nielsen said after the Manchester United star Ryan Giggs affair exposed, the British retired women visit the site doubled the number of Twitter. The number of UK users professional social network LinkedIn grew 57%, reaching 3.6 million.
UKOM general manager James Smythe (James Smythe), said: "The growth of social networking audience is mainly driven by 50-year-old age group and a few years ago, this population is also very little on social networking sites.."
He said that more than 50-year-olds accounted for visiting in the 1950s than in the past two years, more new FACEBOOK adults, it is more closely reflect the age of the British online population as a whole than in the past.
UKOM / Nielsen survey of 50,000 Britons online behavior, and statistical data from other countries. Meanwhile members of the investigation team convened by online and offline.
According to foreign media reports, market research firm IDC said in a recent report, 2010 Microsoft and its partners worldwide revenue of about $ 580 billion, in 2009 the figure was $ 539 billion. The report notes that in many cases, better performance of Microsoft partners also business is booming. Microsoft to get $ 1 per revenue, partners can get $ 8.7 revenue. IDC vice president, software channels and alliances research Darren Bibby (Darren Bibby) said, "Microsoft and its partners have a significant impact on the global economy. Microsoft in providing excellent products to our partners, efficient sales, marketing and training resources the performance is excellent. "The report predicts that in the next few years the Microsoft ecosystem in the cloud will have a big year. IDC expects the next four years, cloud computing platform spending will grow to $ 800 billion, Microsoft partners offer both traditional computing products, but also provide cloud computing products. According to vice president of market research firm Directions on Microsoft Research Robert Halm (Robert Helm) said that a large part of the growth will come from small businesses, through to small businesses to provide services and support, Microsoft partners can get good returns. Halm said, as companies are increasingly adopting virtualization technology, the traditional computing will be a new opportunity to provide integrated software and hardware in an integrated system of hardware vendors will be successful in the traditional computing market.
On Thursday, a market research firm, said that with a large domain registrar turned to the Windows platform, Microsoft has eroded a great month together market Apache-Linux platform in the field of Web servers.
According to TechWeb.com reported that the British company Netcraft, Microsoft's share of the Web server market increased 4.7%, the share of Apache-Linux platform, fell 5.9%. Microsoft's market share increased mainly due to domain registrar Go Daddy will be 3.5 million domain names by the Linux platform ported to the Windows platform.
According to Netcraft, said in April, Apache is still 63% of the market share in the absolute leading edge Web server market. Microsoft places a 25% market share lagged far behind.
Traditionally, the registrar of the technology trends have a significant impact on the Web server market. Netcraft said Microsoft Web server market share in recent substantial increase occurred in the period 2001-2002 due to Register.com and VeriSign turned to the Windows platform.
President and Chief Operating Officer Warren said Go Daddy, Go Daddy reasons for turning Windows platform, Microsoft provides an efficient and scalable operating platform, also provides the capability to meet our growing demand.
Netcraft report also pointed out that in the past three years, Web scale doubled, as in April the number of sites has grown to more than 80 million.
Sysinternals Web site recently released the latest version of the Sysinternals Suite 2011.05.03 edition.
Microsoft Sysinternals Suite is a very powerful free tool assembly, which includes a total of nearly 70 Windows tools.
Speaking Sysinternals Suite name of this kit may be a lot of people and are very understanding, but if you talk about Process Monitor, ZoomIt, autoruns software, presumably a lot of people will have the impression of it, this kit is a collection of these Microsoft gadgets .
Sysinternals Suite inside the various components can be individually gadgets run out, and all green design, click on the Agree button to run. About the details of these gadgets you can go to Microsoft's official site to query.
This month an updated version of the three major update version of gadgets: ZoomIt v4.2 Process Explorer v14.11 ProcDump v3.04
It is said that before the Sysinternals free tools to Winternals provided, Winternals was originally to do a system recovery and data protection company, in order to solve problems in a variety of engineers usually encountered in their work, they developed a number of small tools, these tools after they collection together called Sysinternals, and on the Internet for people to download, which also contains the source code portion of the tool. These gadgets collection by the praise of many IT professionals, Microsoft is also very fond of them, then directly to the acquisition of the company.
Microsoft on Wednesday against the federal government announced a new cloud computing services.
Microsoft's vice president of network services Ron Makai Ze (Ron Markezich) said that this product is called the Business Productivity Online Suite Federal will provide greater service than conventional cloud computing security standards, including background fingerprint authentication and other biometric identification technology .
Requirements 马凯泽 said that these additional security mechanisms should the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and other institutions increased, but the increase in this series of security and privacy authentication mechanism, the kit will also place state governments to form attractive.
Microsoft said in a statement, for the U.S. federal government launched cloud computing services will be hosted on a separate, dedicated infrastructure, and have security facilities.
Microsoft's cloud computing services to provide users with many tools including email, calendar, collaboration and communication tools, including software. Users of the products currently include McDonald's, Coca-Cola, the British Post Office and over 500 U.S. state and local governments, including the U.S. city of Newark, New Jersey, California, Carlsbad City.
Google through registration fees model provides Internet-based cloud computing services to major organizations, the move to Microsoft's desktop software business a threat. Google announced last September, the government will publish a dedicated cloud computing services in 2010.
马凯泽 said: "Compared with other rival Google, the fastest progress in our commercial office in the field of cloud computing in our maximum number of users, but also the most well-known brands of other manufacturers failed to provide such a high level of safety for the public domain. mechanism, we increased the benchmark security and privacy mechanisms. "
Beijing July 26, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft Tuesday Bowen said the company partner to handset manufacturers released the latest version of the mobile operating system Windows Phone Mango today.
Mango code has been officially released to handset manufacturers and mobile operators. Vice president of Microsoft's Windows Phone technology sector Terry Maili Sen (Terry Myerson) Bowen said, Mango will be pre-installed on new Windows Phone handsets, and in the fall for existing users to upgrade.
Microsoft May said, Mango has 500 improvements. Analysts do not show run on Microsoft's new Mango smartphones worried. Microsoft said, Mango in the "communications and applications will adopt a more intelligent and convenient technology", and referred to an e-mail "social browser" technology that can improve the efficiency of e-mail discussions. The new feature called "threads" will integrate text in a conversation, instant messaging and Facebook chat.
Mango also contains IE9, for quick access.
Microsoft and its fans on the Windows Phone Mango will boost sales of smart phones have high hopes. Windows Phone is the world's fifth-largest smartphone operating system. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Steve Ballmer) 7 月份 acknowledged partner in the company's general meeting on the current version of Windows Phone 7 performance is good enough, but Ballmer was not discouraged, "In the future we will get on the market greater success. "
August 5, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft said Thursday it in next week's Patch Tuesday will release 13 security patches, fixes IE, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio and other software 22 security vulnerabilities.
In this 13 security patches, there are two "serious" level of security patch, which is ranked first in four Microsoft security threat level system. 9 is "important" level of security patches. The remaining two "medium" level of security patches.
Another Tuesday release of "serious" level patch is to fix the two latest versions of Microsoft's server software Windows Server 2008 and 2008 Server R2 in security vulnerabilities. Has eight years of Windows Server 2003 is also affected by the flaw, but for this version of the Microsoft patch rated "important" rather than "serious."
Microsoft's "third security patch" repair only in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 security vulnerabilities. In nine patch released by Microsoft for Windows, there are five patches apply to Windows XP. Microsoft wants to phase out XP as soon as possible.
Microsoft next Tuesday will release a patch for the. Net Framework and Visual Studio 2005 development tools. Another patch is to fix the product as part of Office Visio spreadsheet application vulnerabilities.
This 13 patch will be released in about 1:00 EDT Aug. 9 pm.
2014 for x86 server virtualization infrastructure, companies will have at least five kinds of competitive options. By the end of 2015, half of the global top 100 enterprises in the use of at least one service for production use, the service will be considered a private enterprise cloud computing services, and a virtual machine (VM) is essential to build a brick. As of mid-2012, approximately 75% of the installed VM is a VMware-based. VMware dominant force in the global top 500 enterprises in the even more powerful, because these companies are the earliest start right virtualization, and VMware that time is the only option on the market. Large companies are also extensive use of a variety of high-end tools, such as vMotion, etc., but the use of VM in their production needs are more urgent. In the same period, Microsoft has accounted for nearly 18% of the market share of VM installed. Microsoft's main business in the fight for new virtualization market, these companies are mostly deployed VM insufficient number of smaller businesses 100. However, due to the presence of between VMware very large price gap, Microsoft is also fighting to some of the larger companies - especially in the periphery of large enterprises (such as branches and chain stores). Citrix seems to have lost momentum in terms of server workloads, but in a managed virtual desktop (HVD) market has gained such momentum. Its installed base accounts for about 5% VM installed base. The remaining vendors - Oracle, Novell, Red Hat and Parallels VM share of only about 1% of the current total, but they are growing.
April 18 news, open source team members recently said, in order to meet the growing needs of users, more and more new technologies are integrated into the Linux 2.6 kernel, but this leads to the volume of the core is too large, causing worries about the industry. Sam Greenblatt CA senior vice president, recently said that due to the 2.6 kernel to keep the desktop, server and embedded market, there are more and more new technologies are integrated into the kernel, so that the volume of the 2.6 kernel has become increasingly large.
Greenblatt also noted that users of the game and which drivers and drivers are not interested in music. He said that what we need is a more stable Linux kernel.
In this regard, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) researcher Andrew Morton said that so far, for the enterprise open source community and Linux in the end did not have what characteristics should formulate a roadmap. Morton said that at present, it is growing at an unprecedented rate to the new technology into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
And, Morton also that, in fact, most of which new features are optional.
Some analysts believe that led to the rapid expansion of the Linux 2.6 kernel volume was mainly due to the competition between the various Linux vendors. The Morton believes that market competition is beneficial to the healthy development of the Linux kernel, the kernel because it allows developers to know what features are essential and which are redundant features.
Xbox360 Although this holiday is one of the hottest commodities, however, after its sale, a variety of problems continue to spread. Offering a variety of quality issues have just let Microsoft bruised and battered. However, because of the high cost of the host itself, and out of serious problems with the host in order to replace the new machine is very difficult. Quality problems, then no complaints admissible, which led to the player's discontent gradually rising. Even an angry player will Microsoft sued.
Chicago, Illinois, Robert Byers claimed his Xbox360 problems and huge power, often cause the system to crash. Byers did not think Microsoft Xbox360 conduct adequate quality testing, in order to catch an opponent in a hurry before the product quality problems to the market to the detriment of consumers. The case requires replacement or recovery of Microsoft Xbox360, and attorneys' fees and compensation for damage compensation benefits undetermined.
Microsoft said that at present there is only about 3% of the Xbox360 encounter some degree of technical issues, this ratio is lower than the general consumer electronics. Therefore belong to the normal range.
Since November 22 Xbox 360 release, there are already a large number of players through the network to complain about similar problems. For example, a black screen and an error message pops up warning. However, according to previous reports, Microsoft has taken action to recall problematic game console repairs. Details to be further confirmed.
April draws to a close, we take a look at the website StatCounter statistics on the global market share of operating systems. View April 2013 statistics, Windows 7 market share of 54.07%, Windows XP market share of 21.63%, Mac OS X market share of 7.06, Windows Vista, the market share of 6.04%, Windows 8's share of the global PC market share 4.68%, iOS market share of 3.73%, Linux market share of 1.08%, and other operating system market share of 1.69%. . Icon: April statistics StatCounter statistics for the past two weeks (April 8 - April 21) display, Windows 7 market share of 53.89%, Windows XP market share of 27.7%, Mac OS X market share of 7.11%, Windows Vista market share of 6.06%, Windows 8 accounted for 4.69 percent of the global PC market share, iOS market share of 3.76%, Linux market share of 1.11%, and other operating system market share of 1.68%. Icon: (April 8 - April 21) Statistics After Microsoft released Win8 system on October 26, 2012 sale, Microsoft Win8 within three days of official statistics show that sales reached 4,000,000, a month after the official release Win8, Microsoft announced Win8 license sales reached 40 million, two and a half months now officially released Win8 this figure climbed to 60 million, including the sale directly to the PC manufacturer's part. Microsoft has not released Win8 after sales figures released earlier this month quarter earnings did not disclose any information about the sales situation and updates Windows 8's.