Review (Reality capsule): MSN Search Beta

December 7th, 2004 My review on MSN Search elicited the following response from MSN Search's Weblog: Angsuman Chakraborty thinks that we released the Beta too early. He also questions the veracity of our site descriptions.

June 13th, 2006 Spencer Katt has an interesting (read funny) take on future Google products (and then there are mine). They are: 1.

January 8th, 2009 Great news for Windows enthusiast. The public beta version of Windows 7 is all set for a grand release come Friday, January 9, 2009.

June 24th, 2006 Yahoo Mail sucked (pardon my French). However their new version (beta as is the norm these days) is getting rave reviews.

June 24th, 2009 As it was predicted Bing woos advertisers better than Google - it's turning into reality. All odds are in favor of Microsoft, as the number of clicks on ads served by Bing search engine hiked a 13% in the last two weeks.

December 31st, 2005 F-Secure claims that the latest "leaked" beta of the IM client might not be what it seems. It is a virus in disguise.

May 27th, 2009 Until know we have been all praises for Windows 7. Now its time to step down and give a reality check.

October 23rd, 2005 After my ill-fated attempt to use latest version of Yahoo Instant Messenger (The Malware), I manually removed all traces of Yahoo Instant Messenger from my system. One thing however persisted - their search engine plugin for Firefox.

March 28th, 2009 There are loads of emails that flock into your account everyday and leaves you with a hell in a handbasket. I always come across people who got stuck with Microsoft's Outlook.

July 30th, 2009 A look at how the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will workAlthough Yahoo and Microsoft could soon be working together on Internet search, their collaboration would mostly occur behind the scenes. Consumers would still see Yahoo's logo striped across Yahoo.com.

March 3rd, 2009 While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was bragging the release of the 7th version of Windows in a CES keynote speech on 9 Jan, those struggling with VIsta bugs were certainly looking up with penance. It was something of what Garrison Keillor once expressed, I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

July 30th, 2009 Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky betNEW YORK — Is Microsoft's Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking through to them. Yet a closer look at its results reveals why loyal Yahoo users may not end up happy with the deal the company announced Wednesday, which calls for Bing to replace Yahoo Search.

September 14th, 2009 Microsoft swaps pictures for text in some searchesSEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to display some search results as galleries of moveable images instead of text links, part of its ongoing attempt to differentiate its Bing search engine from Google.

July 2nd, 2009 With Twitter's foray into mainstream media there has been a urge for real-time search and urgency of delivering topical data. Google and Facebook are working out significant changes on their search tools to fillip status updates.

December 8th, 2008 In Windows 7 beta version, there is a send feedback button on the right side of the title bar on each and every window opened on desktop. Well there are two reasons for which one can feel bothered.