It's been a busy couple of years in the suddenly-hot desktop search market. Since October 2003, when Microsoft spilled the beans on its plans to integrate instant desktop search into Windows Longhorn, competitors far and wide have tried to take...
The MSN division is housed several blocks away from the main Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington at a place called Red West. The distance between Red West and the main campus has an interesting effect on both visitors and employees. Though it...
MSN was birthed in controversy and was then somewhat of a joke in the online community for several years. But about five years ago, MSN found its groove. Since then, this Microsoft division has become the most unheralded success story at the...
You may have heard of blogs (or "Web logs"), a new name for something that's existed since the dawn of the Web: Personal Web sites, updated regularly, containing any kind of information imaginable. Bloggers--i.e. those who maintain blogs--might...
With its lucrative Office suite in decline, Microsoft is feeling the heat. Once accountable for about 50 percent of Microsoft's revenues, Office contributed less than one-third of the company's revenues throughout 2004, and increased competition...
First launched as a public beta in November 2004, MSN Search was long in coming. Rumors of Microsoft's Web search challenge to market leader Google have been brewing for years now. But unlike previous versions of the search tool on MSN's...
