Amazing stuff – the multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach actually managed to attract more players in one day than the Halo 3 beta did during its entire run, which is by a million gamers. Assuming we extrapolate that data to the launch of Halo: Reach, you can be certain that Microsoft has a winner on their hands that day round, but we will just have to patiently wait until September for the game to be released.

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Microsoft’s soon to come Office for Mac 2011 is touted to deliver ever closer feature parity with the Windows version, where you will be able to benefit from improved support for Exchange and reincorporation of support for Visual Basic for Applications – a feature that was booted out unceremoniously in Office 2008. Apart from that, you will additionally notice that the looks of both Windows and Mac versions are more common than ever, helping increase productivity in the office regardless of which platform your employees or colleagues use. Is that a move in the right direction by Microsoft?

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While many Web savvy folks today run Firefox or Google’s Chrome browser, that doesn’t mean that Microsoft’s Net Explorer is dead. The software giant has just released another platform preview of Web Explorer 9 (IE9) in the design of IE9 Preview 2 and that latest incarnation scores 68 out of 100 on the Acid3 pop quiz. The latest build additionally claims to improve JavaScript and HTML5 performance while the full hardware acceleration for HTML5 on IE9 is able to take the workload off your computer’s processor, shifting it to the graphics chipset. There isn’t any official word on when the public beta of World Wide Web Explorer 9 will be available, but whether you want to check out the Platform Preview, feel free to do so.

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Nokia and Microsoft has come together to unveil Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia, where that communications client will hook straight to a company’s communications systems to streamline mobile collaboration. that lets you check on your colleagues’ availability, while being able to choose from a myriad of methods to keep in touch with them, including IM, newsletter, a short text or the de facto standard, a good old phone shout. First available for Nokia E72 and Nokia E52 users only via Ovi Store, Nokia will not stop there as they attempt to offer Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia on other smartphones in their range of devices sometime down the road. [Press Release]

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Nokia and Microsoft has come together to unveil Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia, where that communications client will hook straight to a company’s communications systems to streamline mobile collaboration. that lets you check on your colleagues’ availability, while being able to choose from a myriad of methods to keep in touch with them, including IM, mail, a short text or the de facto standard, a good old phone signal. First available for Nokia E72 and Nokia E52 users only via Ovi Store, Nokia will not stop there as they attempt to offer Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia on other smartphones in their range of devices sometime down the road. [Press Release]

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Nokia and Microsoft has come together to unveil Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia, where that communications client will hook straight to a company’s communications systems to streamline mobile collaboration. that lets you check on your colleagues’ availability, while being able to choose from a myriad of methods to keep in touch with them, including IM, mail, a short text or the de facto standard, a good old phone shout. First available for Nokia E72 and Nokia E52 users only via Ovi Store, Nokia will not stop there as they attempt to offer Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia on other smartphones in their range of devices sometime down the road. [Press Release]

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Nokia and Microsoft has come together to unveil Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia, where that communications client will hook straight to a company’s communications systems to streamline mobile collaboration. that lets you check on your colleagues’ availability, while being able to choose from a myriad of methods to keep in touch with them, including IM, e mail, a short text or the de facto standard, a good old phone signal. First available for Nokia E72 and Nokia E52 users only via Ovi Store, Nokia will not stop there as they attempt to offer Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia on other smartphones in their range of devices sometime down the road. [Press Release]

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We gave you an early peek at the upcoming Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two phones, and we told you that they were coming on Verizon’s network that month. Well, the instance has come and we have the details about the launch, the specifications and most importantly, the pricing.

Both Kin phones will launch in Verizon’s stores on May 13th for a price of $49.99 and $99.99, after a mail-in rebate and only when purchased with a 2-year contract. Verizon says that “Customers will receive the rebate in the design of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted ” (Verizon).

The details plan data is even more critical: with $39.99 for the voice, and $29.99 for the info, that’s a minimum of $70 that will be charged monthly, which is precisely what smartphone users pay… except that Microsoft Kin does not supply a smartphone experience. So, by two years, we are talking about a $1680 + phone + taxes + fees cost. Honestly, I was expecting the starting price to be lower.

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Internet Explorer’s browser market share has taken a slow but certain dip to go below the 60% mark for the first date in history, which is a far cry from the 95% figure that we saw all the way back in 2003. Firefox retains its second position with 24.5%, while Google’s Chrome is a fast riser, hitting 6.7% from a paltry 1.7% last year. Safari wasn’t even listed so go figure. What do you think of that scenario – will Microsoft’s Net Explorer end up as defunct sometime down the road whether that market share trend were to be extrapolated by a couple of decades?

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While there aren’t any official details at the moment it seems that Microsoft is busy working on a project that could bring the core of its desktop OS to smartphones. whether that does happen, we’ll see the Windows NT core possibly replace the Windows CE core used in Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 and the Zune HD. Murmurs of a graphics layer known as Experiment 19 will apparently be the magic to scale the experience down to a size that’s suitable for handheld devices. The team involved in that project is apparently called the Menlo team. It’ll be interesting to see how that affects Windows Mobile devices in the future, as Windows programs currently support different processor architectures and have different frameworks for programs. Looks like it’s something worth keeping an eye on.

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