Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}

Steve Ballmer’s advice to grads… »

Steve Ballmer’s commencement address at the University of Southern California :

I would like you to think about here things, three things that I’ve had a chance to decide are really important based upon the time I’ve spent at Microsoft, and I’ve spent in the information technology industry. Number one, great ideas matter. Number two, find passion. And, number three, be tenacious, be irrepressible.

Microsoft to buy Nokia’s mobile division… »

Eldar Murtazin, believes that Microsoft and Nokia will enter discussions next week looking at a possibility that Microsoft could take over Noika’s mobile division… Well the possibility exsits no doubt… First the move to Windows Phone 7 and then the renaming of OVI to Nokia Services…

And there you have another piece of information – the following week Nokia begins talks on selling the phone division at Microsoft. While the results of these negotiations will not be public, but the deal could be closed before the end of 2011, both companies are very much in a hurry. After all, today the problem for the current management of Nokia does not produce good products, but as soon as possible to destroy the company, and interesting assets transferred to the MS.

NOTE : you would need to translate the webpage…

Microsoft to buy Skype…

For quite a while now all social networks have been buzzing with this rumor that Facebook, Google and Microsoft are interested in buying Skype… Today, the Wall Street Journal has confirmation that Microsoft is paying nearly $8.5 Billion to acquire the VOIP experts… This would definitely make Microsoft competitive with others… Skype is a cross-platform …

Adobe Flash Vs. Microsoft Silverlight!!!

“Should I use Silverlight or Flash???” Many people ask this question… I’m not a fanboy of either Flash or Silverlight… I’m a web developer, and I choose the tools best to solve a problem… I agree to it that both Flash and Silverlight provide a great way to program rich applications with complicated interactivity… If …

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates!!!

    Came across the really hilarious comic strip on Sad And Useless… You just have to have a look… Bill – I went to a bank yesterday to talk about a loan… Steve – What do you need a loan for??? Bill – i don’t, the bank does…

PHP vs. ASP!!!

In the world of web development, the option of which development language to use usually comes down to two well-liked choices… Web applications, specifically those relying on back end databases, are naturally being created by either Microsoft’s ASP.Net language, or the Open Source substitute language of PHP… ASP stands for Active Server Pages and PHP …

R.I.P. IE6!!!

Internet Explorer 6 is an extremely outdated browser, and it is holding the Internet community back from continuing its perception of new shininess… It is also causing a huge headache for webmasters, who must go out of their way to accommodate the browser for their sites… First launched in 2001 Internet Explorer 6 is still …

Windows Phone 7: First Thoughts…

Alright, today at last Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer unveiled their newest Windows Mobile OS, called “Windows Phone 7 Series”, and launched a website to show it off at the Mobile World Congress… I can actually say that I am excited for Microsoft announcing a new mobile OS… It hasn’t just created another version of Windows Mobile, from …

Google Drops Support for IE 6!!!

In my mailbox is a nasty looking mail for Microsoft by Google today… Dear Google Apps admin, In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As …

So iPad it is!!!

So Apple have made their announcement and they’ve gone with the name iPad… Quite a surprise considering my understanding was that the trademark of iPad belonged to another company in the US…