Microsoft Encarta Will Shut Down

As an online encyclopedia there is now huge popularity of Wikipedia on the Internet. But once upon a time, there had huge recognition and one and only leadership of Encarta in all online encyclopedias. But in recent few years its service had been rapidly losing in the information reference battle against online giant encyclopedia, Wikipedia. So Microsoft makes a decision to discontinue their service of Encarta. Microsoft’s Website mentioned that, it will discontinue its MSN Encarta encyclopedia software and services over the course of this year. It would close down all Encarta sites in the world by the close of October 2009, except Japan, where they will close 2 months later.

The encyclopedia, which started in 1993, is shutting down after 16 years. The last version of the Encarta Premium 2009 had more than 62,000 detailed articles, immersive research experiences, and thousands of trusted web links. It retailed for $29.95. By contrast, the English version of Wikipedia boasted 2,818,976 articles as of March 31 which is fully free. So, why people will take Encarta’s service?

For the free service and plenty of collection of Wikipedia, within a few year it Beats Encarta very easily. So after this summer Encarta will no longer sell its Encarta software.

Introducing Windows 7

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows7 is exact on track for release within a near time. It is the subsequently version of Microsoft Windows and more improve version of Windows Vista. This is the seventh release of Windows, so then “Windows 7″ just makes sense. Microsoft has stated that it is scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year time frame. A Microsoft representative exposed to Softpedia via email that “We are currently in the planning stages for Windows 7 and development is scoped to three years from Windows Vista Consumer GA. The specific release date will be determined once the company meets its quality bar for release.” According to the leaked information on the next iteration of the Windows platform, the final version of Windows 7 was to be covered up the end of 2009.

Windows 7 will available in both user and server versions with the user versions it will available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The server version of Windows 7 will be available for 64-bit only. Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, recommended that the subsequently version of Windows would be more “user-centric.”

He said:

That means that right now when you shift from one PC to another, you have got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one. Moving information between them is very painful. We can use live services to know what you’re interested in. So even if you drop by a kiosk (public) or somebody else’s PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that’s kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. Also in Vista, things got a lot better with ink (digital) and speech, but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won’t need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We will make it so that a lot of the high level graphics will be just built into the operating system. So we’ve got a pretty good outline.

Microsoft invents low-cost multi touch sensor

The big giant in computer technology Microsoft recently shows a laser touch screen, which is really very low in cost. In a near time all of seen a lot of laser touch device in the market. But there’s price is not in the range of normal user. There is a lot of demand of these types technology. Though, price of these type products is so high. For this reason, Microsoft invents low-cost digital desktop or wall display.

This technology gives you a normal or easy interface to interact with your computer. Microsoft uses modern methods for manipulating this digital desktop or wall display with two hands. They use sensing technology system which displays a desktop or projector, so that you could use your hands for maintaining your computer instead of a mouse. The full system uses a low-cost infrared camera and a laser to track the position of the user where the user touches the screen. Than, response reach to the software into various processing. In this process your computer interacts with you. The technology is so much powerful that they use, because their developed software is really keen and faster for the responding. Though, it uses low-cost camera and laser. Moreover, for this low-cost camera and laser the total cost of this multi-touch sensor is inexpensive.

The leading computer device company Microsoft always tries to give latest technology faster and in a cheap rate to the user. Microsoft not only thinks about the latest techniques but also think about the price of the product. Cause their products are not only for one type of class people. Their all products are invented on the basis of uses of normal people. They want to send all newest facilities to the every class of the society.  And it is one of new addition in their lot of big invention. This product brings a revolution to the computer users. Though, this new product has some limitation. For example, it doesn’t support multiple users to use. But they are trying to remove this problem.