Microsoft Registers record sales of 30 Million MS Office 10 Copies Last Year

Microsoft observes the foremost anniversary of its Office 10 productivity suite prior to in the week, conceited that the software suit has by now sold over 30 million units. Sales record of 30 million units in a year and that to quantity of selling of one copy per second for whole year is a massive achievement for company like Microsoft.



Microsoft also declared free-to-use Web based Office Web Apps (OWA) and many of thme are seeing this as answer from Microsoft to Google Docs, which has more than 50 million active users. Talking about the words from his mind on this highlight marked by the company, Microsoft Corporate Vice President  Takeshi Numoto wrote in a blog post said that the numbers successfully answer reviewers who had been offensive to Microsoft's road when it came out with Microsoft Office 2010.

"They said we were moving in the incorrect direction by enduring to splurge in our desktop applications in addition to the cloud. Even more of late, there've been more forecasts of the PC's demise,” said Numoto.

“But the truth is based on the market results as shown  from our sales and approval data, people persist to love Office on the desktop and they're implementation Office in the cloud," he added.

Google Taking off Malware Applications from The Android Market

Google has recently dragged down a small number of many malware infected applications from the Android Market last week, a security analyst declares. The disclosures came from Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor in computer science and technology at North Carolina State University. As per to him, a total of 10 applications were uninvolved by Google from its Android Market on June 5.

  

Jiang, who was also accountable for ascertaining these malware infected applications being advertised via the Android Market, and functioned to get Google's notice to the danger facing its customers. Jiang also created a report hauling an in detail crash of the malicious code, known as Plankton. Another security specialist Andrew Bradit, who is also a research analyst at Webroot, did research on his way on Plankton. Brandt hoisted the apprehension by stating that, "It has the capability to remotely access a command-and-control (C&C) server for directions, and upload supplementary payloads. It exercises an extremely surreptitious technique to set in motion several malware it needs to phone."

Jiang's team as well accounted the continuation of more than a few other malicious apps in the Android Market, the nearly all bullying examples being DroidKungFu, and YZHCSMS, a Trojan horse. Google has given full freedom and permitted developers to build up apps, as contrasting to the closed loom taken by Apple. Although this has earned admiration of numerous developers and customers, it also raises the opportunity of malicious code receiving into constant the official Android Market.

Indian Tablet 'Sakshat' Coming Soon for Students

The Indian Tablet 'Sakshat' project success was a result of the partnership between the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and four IITs, and its endeavor was to overpass the digital partition among the students in India.

    

The tablet will be subsided by the Indian government and will be sold to educational institutions in India and bad news for others that it will not be offered in retail. The prominent features of the tablet consist of that it is powered by Linux, have 2 GB memory, has a touch screen as well as an inbuilt keyboard, Wi-Fi connectivity, computing competence such as OpenOffice and SciLab, and has a power rating of just 2 Watts consequently that it can be used in low power supply regions also.

We are definitely pleased to notice that the Sakshat project is at last up and functioning. Its specs are moderately remarkable; it can be a genuine prospect for students who come from humbler backgrounds to be proficient to be a part of the Indian IT occurrence, although improving their production at school or college.

This is a authentic feather in the cap for the Education Ministry of India, and is comparable to the laptops developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.

Google launches various features like Icons for Mobile, Voice Search Desktop

Google revealed numerous latest and finest features, counting a number of for its mobile version and a number of for the desktop. The mobile version of Google obtains icons at the bottom of search pages. These icons consist of restaurants, bars and coffee shops and that is going to position the users to ones near your phone.

Google Goggles also finds a latest feature where user can point your mobile device at Russian text and get a translated version. Both features will launch today.The desktop version of Google has incorporated voice search and drag and drop image search in it.



Users will able to see a microphone icon next to the search bar and can click it to speak your search words, which is going to be fun. User will also be competent enough to drag and drop an image into the search bar and Google will furnish them with the best answer for what's in the image. These features will begin next week.