Archive for November, 2009
Hi,
Thanks to good friends I can share with you some pictures with me in China – Guangzhou
Florin RAICU
eWeek wrote an interesting article about 10 reasons why Google should still fear Microsoft.
The reasons are:
- It’s huge
- Google is a newbie
- The Yahoo deal matters
- Windows is still powerful
- Microsoft is improving
- Bing is pretty good
- Microsoft is settings its sights on Google
- The enterprise trusts Microsoft
- Microsoft knows the future is the cloud too
- Windows 7 is the X factor
Florin RAICU
Toshiba and the British company XMA launched a contest in the United Kingdom for college students. The contest is very funny. The prize is £3,500 , a Toshiba laptop and an internship at XMA
All you need to do is to answer in less than 100 words to a simple question: “Why are you the next Bill Gates?”
For more information about this contenst thenextbillgates.co.uk
Florin RAICU
Microsoft organized a short movie contest called: 72-hour Windows 7 film festival.
The biggest prize was $3.000; second place $2.000 and the next 6 movies received $500. Here you can see all the movies which got at least $500.
Grand prize: “7 Beat”  Â
First prize: “Untitled (Parkour)”
Second prize, Superhero: “W7 vs. Captain Virus”
Second prize, Free for All: “Journey to Wiggins”
Second prize, A Blast from the Past: “Bill and Paul’s Excellent Adventure”
Second prize, Reality TV: “Metropolitan Detail”
Second prize, Pets/Family: “IT Bud”
Second prize, Pop Culture: “Don’t Quote Me on This”
Honorable mention: “Installation”
