Independent research suggests that Bing has cornered 12.7% of the market in the 12 months since it launched.
However Google has 62.6% and Yahoo 18.9%, according to figures from ComScore.
At a Microsoft summit to discuss Bing’s progress, the search engine’s executives admitted that there was “a long road ahead” for the site.
“There is something that we are doing that is clearly resonating but that said we are a low share player,” Satya Nadello of Microsoft’s online division told BBC News.
“We have barely gotten into double digits but we want this to …

Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP beyond the date that Windows 7 gets its first service pack.
Previously it had been thought that the Vole was going to discontinue the right to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP when the Windows 7 SP1 service pack came out.
Now it appears, according to a Microsoft blog, that Microsoft has decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1.
Apparently this will help maintain consistency for downgrade rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle, …

Details of Microsoft’s plans for its Windows 8 operating system has been leaked on the internet.
A PowerPoint document, allegedly part of a Microsoft presentation given to a Hewlett-Packard executive and dated April 2010, indicates that Windows 8 will include support for facial recognition technology and will be compatible with tablet computers.
The UK’s Daily Telegraph reports that the source of the original leak has been removed from the internet, but tech blog
Microsoft Kitchen has posted a detailed analysis and screenshots of the presentation.
According to the leaked presentation, Microsoft is focusing on reducing the …

Microsoft has announced that its refresh of Windows Live Essentials, putting the updated services into public beta.
Windows Live Essentials includes free programs from Microsoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging, family safety, and more. Get them all in one download and get more done with Windows.
With Essentials, you get Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, and Toolbar, plus Microsoft Office OutlookConnector, Office Live Add-in, and Microsoft Silverlight.
Download it at the Microsoft Windows Live Essentials website.

Keeping up with our commitment to developers to release updates to the Internet Explorer Platform Previewapproximately every 8 weeks, today we released Internet Explorer Platform Preview 3 at an event in San Francisco. Together with representatives from top web sites, OEMs and silicon companies we showed what it looks like when you marry powerful hardware with top web site developers on a browser architected for the next generation of web experiences.
The Internet Explorer Platform Preview allows developers to test the new Internet Explorer 9 web development and design capabilities including our new …

Technology developed by Microsoft under the code name Project Natal was renamed”Kinect.”
The potentially revolutionary device uses a 3-D camera and gesture recognition software to let people play videogames using natural body movements instead of hand-held controllers.
It lets people play driving games, for example, by simply moving their hands as if turning a car steering wheel.
On-screen figures in sports or dance titles mimic the body movements of people in the real-world.
No price details were disclosed at the presentation, which provided glimpses at how Kinect lets players control on-screen characters with natural gestures instead …

Microsoft is working on pushing the Bing algorithm into Yahoo search, and hopes to be completed sometime in Q4 this year.
Under their partnership, Microsoft and Yahoo plan to join forces to go after Google’s dominating share of the search market. The deal got regulatory approval from both the United States and Europe in February, and Microsoft has started funneling cash to Yahooas things spin up.
“Right now, Yahoo engineers are joining Microsoft and they’re sharing ideas,” Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president for Microsoft’s Online Audience Business, said Wednesday during his keynote at the Search …

A security researcher has warned of a vulnerability in older versions of the Windows operating system that allows attackers to take full control of a PC by luring its user to a booby-trapped website.
The flaw resides in the Windows Help and Support Center, a feature that provides users with online technical support. Malicious hackers can exploit the weakness of Windows by embedding commands in web addresses that activate the feature’s remote assistance tool, which allows administrators to execute commands over the internet. The exploit works in XP and Server 2003 …

Microsoft has now introduced the Office Live features in to Microsoft SkyDrive.
You can now Create, Add, Edit and Delete Microsoft Office documents on-line, from Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel or One Note, the service is completely free and requires a Windows Live login, which is also free .
Windows Live Skydrive is 25GB of free online storage. You can use Skydrive storage to backup your files online for free, or to share files online that are too large to email. You can set permissions and set folders as private, public or share …

Microsoft has released information that a service pack will be coming both to Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, this was announced yesterday at the TechEd conference in New Orleans.
The up-coming service pack is planned to have tweaks to security, performance, and reliability for the eight-month-old Windows 7, including boosts for Remote Desktop Services and for Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization platform.
While the new features for Windows Server 2008 R2 benefit Windows 7 by providing a richer VDI experience, SP1 will not contain any new features that are specific to Windows 7 …