Microsoft's MSN marks Greater China separate region
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Microsoft Corp.'s MSN unit is treating  its greater China market as a geographically separate region,  industry sources said on Tuesday, in a nod to China's  increasing importance to the software giant.
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Microsoft&#39;s has launched its MSN music download service in eight more European countries as the software giant bids to takes on Apple&#39;s market leading iTunes.
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US software giant Microsoft and Chinese Internet search portal Baidu said they were joining forces in China.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp.   is setting up a research and development center in  Shanghai for its online MSN service, its first such center  outside the United States, sources familiar with the plan said  on Wednesday.
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With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world&#39;s leaders, officials and experts said.
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'You will use Baidu' It looks like China is hijacking web traffic from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!.â¦
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Microsoft Corp.  rolled out  Windows Vista at retailers around the world on Tuesday, hoping  to dazzle customers with new multimedia features, while in  China the focus turned to its new anti-piracy properties.
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A paid-search deal with MSN China is the latest growth spurt from China's search leader.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft wants to play a bigger role in China's living rooms, and the company is willing to spend millions of dollars to get there. The company's latest home-entertainment moves in China include aÂ planned $12.3 million investmentÂ in Sichuan Changhong Electric. The deal, announced earlier this week, gives Microsoft a small stake in one of China's largest TV makers, which in turn agreed to develop TVs and other products able to link with the Internet. "Microsoft and Changhong have partnered in exploring the use of digital media technologies to benefit the consumers for a better in-home networked digital entertainment experience," Microsoft said Friday in an e-mail statement. Its investment is intended to build goodwill, rather than bring a specific product to market. "The investment is more like a gesture of saying, 'We're friends strategically,'" said Jason Yin, managing director at In-Stat China. Critics have compared the Changhong deal to Venus, an ill-fated project launched in 1999 to develop Windows CE set-top boxes for the Chinese market. But that's not an accurate comparison. "It's very different," Yin said. Unlike Venus, Microsoft isn't trying to bring a new piece of hardware to market. Current versions of Windows are capable of connecting a TV with the Internet, and these types of systems are already available in China. Changhong's own M10 Living Room Entertainment Center is an example. Based on Windows XP Media Center Edition, the M10 is designed to connect with a television and comes with a remote control and wireless keyboard, allowing users to access music, videos and the Internet from a couch instead of a desk. Changhong also offers other consumer products that connect to the Internet. For instance, it sells a 32-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) television with a camera that can be used for Internet video calls. And the company has worked with China Telecommunications Group Corp., one of the country's two major fixed-line operators, to sell IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) set-top boxes. Microsoft hopes closer ties with Changhong will strengthen the channel through which its home-entertainment software reaches Chinese consumers. Those products include Windows Media Center and Mediaroom, the company's IPTV software. "Microsoft now has a better understanding of the value of local partners in penetrating China's market," Yin said, citing the example of Xiamen Amoi Electronics, which develops and sells Windows Mobile smart phones in China. Whether Microsoft's small investment in Changhong yields the desired result remains to be seen. In past years, the company used investments to build closer relationships with Chinese partners to varying degrees of success. "The investment doesn't always mean they get what they want," Yin said. The Changhong investment is just one part of Microsoft's home-entertainment push in China, and the company continues to seek out new deals and alliances. On Thursday, Microsoft signed an agreement with Shanghai Media Group (SMG), the country's second-largest media company. Under the terms of that deal, SMG will use Microsoft products across its new-media division, which includes Internet video, IPTV and mobile television. The partners hope their combined strengths in software and content will convince more companies to join them. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Â
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LONDON - MSN is upping the stakes in the battle for online and desktop domination with the launch of a new set of communication services to include blogging and picture sharing.
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Microsoft today launched a redesigned MSN portal for mobile phones, with improved navigation and optimized display of Web pages.
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At 3GSM in Barcelona today, Microsoft announced a preview of its MSN Direct service now available for devices with Windows Mobile, that will put weather, sports scores, business, stocks, and entertainment news on their home screens.
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Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, has expanded its flagship MSN Hotmail internet email service to include European and Japanese domain names, it said on Friday.
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It's interesting to see that Malaysia is one of the few countries where IIS is dominant. But it's not a big surprise because Microsoft is very strongly entrenched in the Malaysian IT mindset, definitely more so than in Europe or US. And although i'm a long-time IIS supporter, these figures have made me realize that we don't really care either way. A rough mental count tells me that 30% of our websites are on IIS, and 70% on Apache.    Rank Country Apache% IIS%   1 Japan 73 9   2= Indonesia 70 23   2= Korea 70 25   - Global average 67 21   4= Philippines 60 24   4= New Zealand 60 30    6 Pakistan 57 28   7= Thailand 54 38   7= Australia 54 38    9 Taiwan 47 46   10 Singapore 45 40   11 Malaysia 42 51   12 India 41 49   13 China 35 56
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The dominance of Google in the search space is almost written in stone in North America, but there may yet be some populous spots in the world where the market is wide open. Now its main Chinese competitor has launched a new assault.
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The latest update to Microsoft's MSN Direct service which will take effect on numerous personal navigation devices.
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Microsoft yesterday took the wraps off a new set-top box aimed at tying together the living room, the PC, and the company&#39;s MSN network and content.