The app enables fans to share their favourite music across a range of social networks, using the Windows 8 Share charm, and also works with the Windows 8 Search charm.
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Beyond protecting the 4.3-inch, 720p panel, this sheet of glass covers the 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera (top-left) and capacitive buttons along the bottom (back, Windows and search) which are both stenciled and backlit in white.
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Google is determined not to let Microsoft do the same to it by building Internet search into Windows.
Aside from fancy ways that Microsoft uses photos in tiles in Windows 8, in search results on Bing, and in megaphoto stitches in SkyDrive, the company just adheres to one simple concept that gives the user control over his or her pix: you can put your photos in whatever folders you want.
Interestingly, Microsoft chose Yandex over Bing as a default search engine for Windows 8 phones in Russia and in Turkey.
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As recently as yesterday, Google was explaining its auto-redirect of Google Maps on Windows Phone devices to Google search as a question of incompatibility rather than one of choice.
Smartphone OS success not only enables higher licensing revenues for Microsoft, but also helps the company capture greater market share in the search advertising market, since Bing is the default search engine on Windows Phone 7 smartphones.
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Now the contents of the Windows-based drives on a Mac machine are visible to Mac-only applications, and applications like Sherlock--used for searching hard drives and increasingly for Internet-related searches--can now search the contents of Windows drives even when the virtual Windows machine isn't running.
Microsoft, with its history of corporate software sales, is still cultivating the business potential of search, but its forthcoming Windows Live product is expected to take a similar turn.
At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Microsoft showed how Bing can let you play games in search, IM people in Windows or Facebook a the same time, plan air travel, even choose and watch television or listen to music.
That said, for users running Microsoft Windows and using Outlook as their mail client, Microsoft's MSN desktop search beats its competitors hands down, primarily because of a superior user interface that integrates better with other Windows programs.
Windows Phone and Android users also can now easily search through their SkyDrive files as well as control their photo upload and download size.
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The programs sift through old and new documents and e-mail far more efficiently than the search software that comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows and the Outlook e-mail program.
Both Android and Windows Phone 8 SkyDrive users get a long-due file search as well as the option to shrink photos when they go online.
Microsoft is also developing its own search technology and ultimately plans to integrate it into Windows, the operating system that runs 94% of the world's personal computers.
Focus areas listed in the jobs descriptions cover nearly every aspect of mobile development, including data synchronization, social networking, cloud services, search and maps, mobile commerce and improvements to the Windows Phone 7 applications platform.
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The software giant agreed to change its freshly released Windows Vista operating system Tuesday to make it easier to use desktop search programs from competitors, bowing to a complaint by search company Google ahead of a hearing to review Microsoft's compliance with a 2002 anti-trust deal.
The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, is expected in 2006 and will have search functions embedded deep inside it.
That very same section houses the central Windows key (complete with new logo) as well as back button and search key.
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From the Start Screen, you can just start typing to begin a search for something -- a trick you can use on the Windows Store home screen, too.
In short, there's no way I'd consider using the iPhone if the only Google-made app in the iOS universe was a search program. (Yes, that's the case in Windows Phone -- just a single Google app.) The iPhone would still have sold millions, sure, but one has to wonder how much less impactful it would've been without Google pushing its apps into the App Store.
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Baidu, the ten-year-old leading Chinese search engine firm, is developing a new mobile operating system, like Android or Windows, the Chinese media reports.
If you're using Windows, the most obvious solution to finding lost files would seem to be by using its built-in search features.
Today, a Google spokesperson provided The Next Web with a statement indicating that the company intends to remove the redirect that it has in place for Windows Phone users who attempt to access the Google Maps product, ending its practice of sending them to its search homepage.
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Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.
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