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As part of the development of Internet Explorer, Microsoft is looking for 9 gain and is therefore inviting beta testers who have already given in advance of the release of Internet Explorer 8 feedback, one for testing. The preview version of Internet Explorer 9 does not yet contain the user interface, but developers can already try out some new features of the Web browser.

For years, Microsoft dominated the browser market, alternative browsers, only a marginal phenomenon. Meanwhile take competitors such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera the best market share appreciably. In Europe, Microsoft has also set by an EU target Windows users active on the choice of which browser they want to use the default browser.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Microsoft is now more improvements in its Web browser to try than before. Now Microsoft is looking for testers to competent feedback to the current state of development of Internet Explorer 9 to obtain. A few days ago, the Group sent out invitations to former beta testers of the current version 8 of Internet Explorer.

The graphical user interface of the new browser version is in the preview but not yet included the Internet Explorer 9 While addresses can only after entering a key combination to enter the beta testers can have the new JavaScript engine (“chakra”) and the Support HTML5/CSS3 try. The preview will Microsoft update regularly in order to get more feedback from their selected testers.

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Redmond’s claim that sales of its new operating system go as expected, although the corporate side is still not being taken as they wanted.

Five months after its enactment, Windows 7 continues to maintain a good adoption in the consumermarket, not for theprofessional. This has been indicated in a conference Peter Klein, chief financial officer atMicrosoft. That yes, predicts a recovery this year.

“The corporate market has been dormant for quite some time and expenditures have been minimal. However, this is the year of recovery and businesses have more monetary resources to invest in new solutions. ” According to Klein, the recovery will begin during this year and will stabilize in the next, although not stated whether it will be fast or slow.

In any case, sales of Windows 7 have been maintained as provided by the company, especially in the consumer segment. Since October 2009 has sold 90 millioncopies. This amount represents a substantial improvement in the numbers reported last January, when the company indicated that it had sold 60 million copies, which means that in just a month have left 30 million copies of Microsoft’s factories.

A study by Net Applications found that Windows 7 is installed on a 7.57% of U.S. computers, but Windows XP keeps hegemony with a 66.15%. The umpire, Windows Vista, holds a 17.47% share and Mac OS X or 2.37%.

As published at the time, sales of Windows 7 have helped significantly in the company’s record results.

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Microsoft has long said it was developing two applications for the iPhone; the first is a bit ahead of its date, I mean the browser Bing appeared in the App Store a few months ago.

It has now been MSN and Microsoft is not directly those who have already developed and offer a Messenger application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In this implementation we will have support for emoticons, share photos, and even can send voice notes, basics of desktop client.

The application was developed by MSN China so only available for that country, although it is expected that during this month appears Microsoft’s official application and that it is available to everyone.

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