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As Microsoft’s plan to acquire Yahoo has gone kaput, it is planning for other alternate solutions for fixing the online branding problem. Moreover Microsoft has also ran in trouble due to its Live brand which is very similar to that of MSN. Microsoft also has Hotmail and messenger which are present in the latter too, creating confusion in the market.

While Yahoo formulates a defense against Microsoft's hostile $44.6billion bid, Google is showing much love and support to Yahoo -- acompany it generally regards as a competitor. Google's turnaboutsuggests the seriousness of the threat Microsoft poses, and may givethe lie to Google's claims that a Microsoft-Yahoo combination would beanticompetitive.

Microsoft has launched low cost PC in India. It was named IQ PC and having plans to start selling through computer retailers, bookshops in Bangalore and Pune. These systems were aimed at students from kindergarden to 12th grade.

IQ PC was built upon AMD processor and comes preloaded with Microsoft Windows Vista Basic Edition, Office, Encarta, Works and Student 2007 and third party software like exam preparation, English learning programs and other. They are looking at a starting price of around Rs. 21,000 ($513) which may come down in future.

We know that the Microsoft Silverlight is now the hottest technology in the current market. It is getting more popular nowadays. Currently, Silverlight supports only Microsoft Vista and Windows XP SP2. In order to cater the silverlight features to the common open source user, the open source crowd has plans to come up with what is called "Moonlight". Mono has started building up the Silverlight's version for Linux and open source systems, i.e., Moonlight.

Apple Corporation has released a beta version of their web browser Safari 3 Beta for windows machines. It's look and feel is similar to the Apple's trademark. If you use Mac OSX and iTunes, you would feel the similar. Apple corporation included Safari web browser in Mac OS X. Previously, Apple hasn't released any of their safari versions for Microsoft machines.

The Beta release offers three choices for download.

Microsoft has finally announced publicly during this week's TechEd 2007 about Microsoft Acropolis. Microsoft Acropolis is a set of components and tools that make the developer and client easier to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is a part of ".NET Client Features". It builds on the rich capabilities of Microsoft Windows and the .NET Framework, including Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), by providing tools and pre-built components that help developers quickly assemble applications from loosely-coupled parts and services.

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