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Choosing the correct structure for your web applications is the number one task you have to take care of when bringing a dynamical site online. There are two main competitors when it comes to this niche of web development. These are Silverlight from Microsoft and Flash from Macromedia. It is curious that with such a large company as Microsoft, Flash has become more famous than Silverlight. This is because Silverlight took a lot more time to impact the market than Flash.  Let’s describe these two structures to have an amplified glimpse of its main advantages.

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A post on the Web Designer Depot (Apple vs. Microsoft – A Website Usability Study) once delved into the usability of the websites of the two big giants in the IT world—Microsoft and Apple. We try to re-investigate into the situation, and come up with some interesting observations.
Perhaps these comprehensive studies on branding, which invite a lot of comments from experts as well as users, do have an impact on companies like Microsoft, which then try to do their best to rectify what has been pointed out.  We look into the case of the Microsoft website and make an attempt to interpret some interesting changes that we think might have happened as a result. So does Microsoft read blog-posts? Let’s find out !

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If you are an avid computing geek, then you will by now be aware of the ongoing rivalry between Apple MAC OS and Microsoft’s Windows OS platform.  For considerable amount of time, Microsoft used to rule the domain of operating systems. In fact, even today most of the PC’s and laptops in the world are powered by Windows Operating systems. However, this trend is slowly staring to change as Apple has finally got a hold of the OS market share by introducing the next gen Mac OS X Snow Leopard that’s phenomenally fast and promises to deliver much more than Microsoft’s latest baby the Windows 7 Ultimate.
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Microsoft’s Silverlight is said to have features and capabilities which can surpass those provided by the HTML5 standard (which is yet to be fully completed). As applications like Silverlight and Flash provided users with Internet applications which enriched their experience, there had considerable speculations and debate over whether the completion of the HTML5 specification would end up with the doing away of such applications, as the need for them might not be felt then.

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Microsoft has agreed to license ARM Chips, as it recently signed a licensing deal with ARM Holdings, the company responsible for producing ARM technology.
This recent step taken by Microsoft is said to have been motivated by a deep interest in entering the smart-phones industry. The deal signed can enhance Microsoft’s base and research, as it now can design ARM-based chips by itself, and it is free to use the ARM technology, or particularly speaking, ARM Micro-architecture.

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