Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reported that this year several companies to market Tablet operating system Windows 7. Among these manufacturers - ASUSTeK Computer, Dell, Samsung, Toshiba and Sony. Ballmer mentioned this, speaking at the conference Worldwide Partner Conference. However, he did not disclose details about what exactly it will be a model and what would be its characteristics.

Although the new operating system Microsoft Windows 7 on the market for less than nine months, it is possible to sum up some results. For example, according to a recent post on the Redmond company's corporate corporate blog, 46 percent of all computers running Windows 7, using 64-bit version of the software platform.

Microsoft Corp. today announced the expected release next Tuesday of four security bulletins for its software products. They provide solutions designed to close a total of five vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system and software packages Office, among which there are critical.

Microsoft is planning to hold a slight reduction in staff during the week. This Wall Street Journal reports citing its sources in Microsoft. The exact scale of the planned cuts is unknown.

Six weeks after the U.S. market mobile phones Microsoft Kin was sold less than 10 thousand units. About this newspaper «The New York Times», with reference to a senior Microsoft.

Microsoft has determined to stop the work on its Kin phone and work on Windows Phone 7, the company’s smartphone operating system due out later this year.
It’s been less than two months since Kin handset made its debut at an event in San Francisco and it appears it will not make its planned European debut.
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An interesting event occurred in the market of web browsers. According to research firm Net Applications for June 2010, the Internet Explorer browser, somewhat unexpectedly increased its market share and re-crossed the 60 percent bar popularity, following which he fell in March this year. 

We already wrote that Microsoft has decided to cancel the release of Microsoft Kin smartphones in Europe and the development of the project as a whole. And now there is information that can be part of a new strategy, which involves the withdrawal of mobile operating systems Windows Phone to a new desktop level. Divisional President, Microsoft's Windows Steven Sinofsky reported that its purpose is to issue a unified platform Windows 8. 

Microsoft said it plans to focus on the future release of its new operating system Windows Phone 7, so it will be thrown much of the resources. And the team members Microsoft, which is now engaged in a project Kin, too, join the developers of Windows Phone 7, and the ideas used in smartphones Microsoft Kin will be reflected in this OS. But the issue of these devices in Europe, as originally planned, and will not take place. 

UK online shop Play.com has published the full specification of the game system Microsoft Kinect for the Xbox 360. Of course, that is not by chance that recently announced new product will cost only $ 149.99 with the appearance on sale Nov. 4 - Characteristics Kinect are very average level.