OnLive app adds Microsoft’s Windows 7 on your iPad

OnLine is a service mostly known in the gaming community, but it has now launched a really interesting app and service which offers Windows 7 for iPad owners. With OnLive Desktop app you can try out Microsoft’s best Windows OS nowadays, directly on your iOS tablet device. This app works only within the cloud without any intermediary Vnc apps necessary.

iOS gaming by Microsoft: “Kinectimals”

 
Microsoft has being really busy last couple of weeks, as they released a number of various app’s for iOS. Now they venture even further into the iOS world: they want to work their way into the iPhone and iPad gaming world. Kinectimals is a game meant to be played by children primarily and is about interaction with animals in the virtual world. It was first released for Microsoft’s own Xbox console which successfully used the famous Kinect gaming system.

Microsoft launches OneNote iPad app

Microsoft is venturing in one area after other with varying success. This time they want to capture another stronghold in iOS world, by releasing iPad version of their One Note app. One Note is Microsoft’s version of note taking apps for writing down ideas, notes and to do lists. With this new app you can now write all your notes and great ideas, and enrich them with images, texts and bullets. You can easily edit your to do lists and add check boxes to them.

Microsoft talks about Siri

In recent interview, head of Microsoft’s research department Craig Mundie comments on Siri, new voice assistant app recently launched by Apple. He claims that Siri is not an original idea at all and that Richmond company already had such an app for Windows Phone 7 called TellMe.

With TellMe you can easily create a text messages to one of your contacts through voice to speech technology. You can also do your web searches on Microsoft’s own search engine Bing, with your voice input only. According to Mundie, TellMe is just as good as Siri and more importantly, it is available for already a year now.

Hotmail benefits largely from iOS 5

It seems that iOS 5 upgrade has benefited Microsoft on a large scale. It remains to be seen is this just a side effect of improving user experience, or is it a part of Apple’s plan for cutting into Google’s market. We really think that Apple isn’t particularly happy with Google and their adventures with Android OS, and if you are a frequent reader on our blog, you will remember Apple’s late founder Steve Jobs was enraged with Android OS claiming that it is only a copy of iOS. Apple has made an additional effort, making it easier for iPhone users to create and use Hotmail email accounts. It comes as a surprise that Microsoft, as the Richmond company said earlier, sees more than 100k new users daily. Most of new Hotmail users are actually iOS users running the new iOS 5 and interestingly most of them are iPhone users.

Microsoft reveals Windows 8 for developers

Despite the fact that this blog is devoted to iPhone, iPad and other things made by Apple, we cant turn a blind eye to what is a hot news on the net, if for no other reason than to keep an eye on what Apple’s competitors are up to. And these days many of them try to emulate Apple’s success in one form or other. Same thing with Microsoft. After they recently started to open Microsoft stores, now they are applying similar marketing techniques. Today, one of the biggest software corporations of the last century (pun intended) has revealed Windows 8 for developers preview. What is most interesting is that this is available for everyone, not developers only.

Microsoft will open Windows 8 App Store soon?

You know that you are doing things fabulously if others, even those which really don’t like you follow your lead. Apple can be sure its doing great job as nowadays everyone wants to create an iPhone and iPad “killer” like Samsung, HTC and others. App Store’s success is also increasingly becoming a lure and a model for others like Amazon, which are trying to emulate App Store’s success. So now Microsoft is also announcing that they will have an App Store for their upcoming Windows 8 OS.

Microsoft plans to open 75 Microsoft Stores

Microsoft obviously feels deeply threatened by everyday advance Apple makes against all its opponents including themselves, once the dominant superpower in the desktop computing world. So Microsoft has decided to reinvent itself and try some Apple style retail and marketing via 75 new Microsoft Stores. Microsoft plans to open these new stores during the next two or three years. There are also plans for such stores in other countries around the world in an effort to enrich the: Microsoft story, which in our opinion reminds somewhat on Apple’s worldwide success story.

iPhone apps: create panorama photos with Photosynth

Did you ever want to impress your friends with some cool panoramic photos? Well if so, here is your chance. Microsoft has again surprised us with an interesting app for iPhone which is rich in features yet simple to use and easy to grasp. The name of the app is Photosynth and interestingly enough for some reason the app was launched within iOS world even before it was made available for Windows Phone 7 OS. This app is amazing and it can help you experience photography in a totally new way. It can capture a sort of 360 degree view of any space or item in a short time frame and then it stitches the images together. Afterwards you can see the stitched panorama with few swipes and enjoy seeing the image from different angles.

Battle of the giants: Apple financially better than Microsoft

This is the first time Apple getting more profits quarterly than the Microsoft as they have netted more than $750 million US dollars. Microsoft on the other side has reported their profits for the last quarter to be $5.22 billion. For the same period of time Apple has announced profits of $5.98 billion.

Few months ago Cupertino company has performed brilliantly as the company has for the first time earned more than Microsoft in revenues. But not withstanding this Microsoft was continuously ahead of Apple regarding profits, main reason being exceedingly high profit margins in the software branch of the company.