Microsoft hits the jackpot with Apple's iOS 7

They also hit the jackpot with apple copying Microsoft's design elements...

As well as android's design elements.

Coke Robot said:

They also hit the jackpot with apple copying Microsoft's design elements...

As well as android's design elements.

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. . . and making them better.

labeeman said:

Apple got all the headlines with the unveiling of iOS 7, but there's likely plenty of celebrating going on at Microsoft headquarters. When iOS 7 hits, it will be a big boost for Microsoft's struggling mobile efforts.
The big win for Microsoft in iOS 7 is that Bing will become Siri's default search engine. If you ask Siri a question and Siri can't find the answer, it searches the Web for the answer -- and Bing will deliver the results rather than Google. Currently Google is Siri's default search engine.

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That's why I use GooGiri - An app that directs ALL Siri web searches to Google. Oh, I can't wait for iOS 7 to be Jailbroken. But Apple just seems to be burning it's bridges with Google. BING is an Ultra-INFERIOR search engine.

XweAponX said:

labeeman said:

Apple got all the headlines with the unveiling of iOS 7, but there's likely plenty of celebrating going on at Microsoft headquarters. When iOS 7 hits, it will be a big boost for Microsoft's struggling mobile efforts.
The big win for Microsoft in iOS 7 is that Bing will become Siri's default search engine. If you ask Siri a question and Siri can't find the answer, it searches the Web for the answer -- and Bing will deliver the results rather than Google. Currently Google is Siri's default search engine.

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Microsoft hits the jackpot with Apple's iOS 7 | Computerworld Blogs

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That's why I use GooGiri - An app that directs ALL Siri web searches to Google. Oh, I can't wait for iOS 7 to be Jailbroken. But Apple just seems to be burning it's bridges with Google. BING is an Ultra-INFERIOR search engine.

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Agreed.

What MS does not factor in - Just like they do not factor how many Windows 8 PCs get Format C'd and Windows 7 Installed - Is that 90% of all new computer buyers IMMEDIATELY remove BING as the default search engine and install GOOGLE. The 10% that do not - simply don't know How, which is why they hire me to do it for them. This is one of the biggest requests I get when I work on PCs, "Make Google the Default Search Engine."

Despite some things that Google does that are not popular - They have one thing nobody else has - The best Search Engine in the world. At least many people agree with me on this point, and the ones who don't? Use Yahoo!

Bing makes me sad.

The closest thing to that would be linux - KDE mostly. I like it. Not enough to make me buy any Apple stuff, I might add.

I am not sure Bing is any less vile than google.

The look is completely different from 8.

Google is best for all forms of search for me
Bing is okay for a few extra images but seems restrained
MSN search tastes better than Yahoo
Yahoo is

Bing, which I will now forever refer to as "Bung", is VOMITABLE. It does not give me usable results, never has, never will.

This is because Googol has the best Engine that responds to exactly what you type in - BUNG cannot do it. If you are looking for an exact Phrase. Maybe a Bible Verse you forgot where it was, or a phrase from a TV show you are trying to ID where it came from or if Q said it or not, or What Walter Bishop ate this AM- That can be found using Only Googol, whose Googolplex engine finds every idle comment on the net where those things you searched for have been posted.

I've never heard of Bing. Did you perhaps mean ping?

Actually DuckDuckGo, AltaVista, Yahoo, Dogpile, are better than Google.

Google WAS the best 4 years ago, but now that they bump paid sites to the top they are not much better than Bing.

Hi there

B.I.N.G = B/S Insecure Nefarious Garbage. Makes PRISM seem like a Sunday School toy. Every search you ever make is stored on M/s's servers and judging by how often M/S stuff appears in the wild we all know how secure their servers are -- don't we. !!

Google is still nr 1 - but you need to learn to create decent search queries to avoid a lot of the advertising junk and shopping sites - and often with some sort of obscure type queries start at the MIDDLE page and work to the front e.g if you get pages 1 - 6 start at page 3 for example and depending on the results work back to page 1 or continue to page 6 before trying page 2 and page 1.

For example if you are interested say in "Very fast or super fast computers" and want to avoid references to shopping outlets selling computers re-phrase your search to "Quantum computing" or "Parallel computing".

This type of searching will absolutely "Bollix" up Google's access algorithms too plus giving you a better search experience - and more money will go to the SMALLER businesses. !!!

Cheers
jimbo

Ever since Google started asking me if I wanted to 'add Google to my Start Screen' and I responded No thanks, and it kept asking me and I kept answering No, and I remembered the time I kept ticking the box to turn off autocomplete in the search box, but it would take no notice... I started using Bing search. I agree it isn't quite the same set of results, and I do still use Google for some searches, but still Bing feels less domineering.

As far as I know, only startpage.com and Ixquick keep no records and are beyond US jurisdiction.

I don't know of any private email clients.

EG if you send an email to a gmail account - that will be examined by google. It will be used to add to their information about you.

Once these megacorps have information about you - it can be obtained by others.