Microsoft, the Empire strikes back

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Microsoft, the biggest competitor of Google, has launched Microsoft Phone 7 in this week. What’s more, the Microsoft’s engineer has showed the technology of next bing map in Ted. Therefore, the episode of Microsoft strikes back is in the show.

Microsoft Phone 7


What we are excited about is the new feature of windows phone having abandoned the old microsoft mobile version, and giving it different module to run applications of social network, images, videos, games and Office Mobile. I think they are doing pretty job to make a higher level of user experience.


Windows phone VS Google Phone 

The infulence of windows new phone to Google phone is significant. Google phone is good at web applications, Windows phone has better softwares in the phone like Office Mobile. Let’s consider about the market of these two phones in China. Microsoft always has a good relationship with Chinese government, so it is not so hard to sell it in China. On the other hand, Google had just broken up with Chinese government, and its many web applications might be blocked in China in future.
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Bing map of next generation



The current Google map and Bing map both have supported the 3D street view. But the engineer of Microsoft want to have a indoor and astronomical body view in bing map of next generation. Let’s watch the awesome video.



It is so cool to have a live video in map, and it matches the street image. Google map gets a powerful company now.
Google and Microsoft, these two biggest IT companies fighting each other like dragon fights tiger(龙虎斗). We are glad to see that, thanks to the competition, we can have a better Internet in the future.