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Microsoft’s Quarter Looks Worse This Way

Microsoft rolled out a new way to report earnings with its first quarter, 2016 earnings on Thursday. This new reporting structure consolidated Microsoft’s businesses into three new units. The previous structure had two major units (commercial and consumer) and broke out a few different businesses in each of those. As you can see, under the old scheme, all business units shrunk except two: … Source link

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Bing, MSN, Outlook.com, Hotmail and other Microsoft services hit with outage

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is having a rough day as the engine was hit with an outage from roughly 2:15PM to 2:45PM ET. If you were to head on over to Bing.com, during that time, you would have been greeted with the page above. Even though Microsoft’s Bing engine is much smaller than Google’s, according to Alexa, it is the 24th most visited site on the web which means that millions of users are likely to see this page instead of the daily images that the… Source link

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MSN Portal Revamed, Bing Mobile Apps to Be Rebranded MSN

MSN Portal Revamed, Bing Mobile Apps to Be Rebranded MSN

Microsoft has fully overhauled its MSN portal to make it more deeply integrated with its other services. Alongside this, it will also be introducing a rebrand of its Bing mobile apps for Windows Phone, iOS and Android. Announced today, the beta portal brings a much cleaner design with the aim of making it more useful for users; it also brings with it deeper integration of Microsoft services, touch optimization and a responsive design that resizes according… Source link

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Microsoft had 32 million Bing-MSN visitors for Election Day 2012

The US Presidential Election is now over with, but Microsoft is still collecting information about the visitors and page views it generated this past Tuesday on both Bing and MSN on that day. Microsoft made a big push for Bing to be a center of election coverage, adding in features like news updates, social media posts, online polls and more to its election hub. Today, the official Bing blog announced that both Bing and MSN had a total of almost 32 million… Source link

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