2010 Search

31 reconstructed results for microsoft in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Microsoft Kin - The social phone that lasted 48 days

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   Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...

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2. Microsoft Office 2010 - The Ribbon everywhere, and Office Web Apps in the browser

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   Office 2010, released to consumers on 15 June 2010, put the Ribbon interface in every application, added the Backstage file view, and launched free Office Web Apps that...

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3. Kinect for Xbox 360 - You are the controller

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kinect

   Kinect launched on 4 November 2010 in North America as a $149 camera bar that tracked your whole body and voice for the Xbox 360. Microsoft sold eight million units in...

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4. Bing - Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

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   Bing had launched in June 2009 with a photographic homepage and a marketing budget that called it a "decision engine" rather than a search engine. In 2010 it took over...

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5. Windows Phone 7 launch phones - Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and the Metro tiles

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   Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe on 21 October 2010 and in the US on 8 November, with phones such as the Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and LG Quantum. The Metro...

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6. Windows Phone 7 - Metro live tiles and a fresh start for Microsoft

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   Windows Phone 7 replaced the stylus-era Windows Mobile with a flat, typographic interface of live tiles and hubs, launching in October and November 2010. Reviewers...

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7. Internet Explorer 9 Beta - Hardware acceleration and HTML5, in a minimal new frame

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   Released on 15 September 2010, the IE9 beta was Microsoft's answer to Chrome: a stripped-back interface with tabs beside the address bar, GPU-accelerated rendering, and...

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8. Windows 7 - The Windows people actually liked, one year old

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   Windows 7 shipped in October 2009 and by the end of 2010 ran roughly a quarter of the world's desktop web traffic, while Windows XP still ran about half. Its Aero glass...

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9. Internet Explorer 8 - The default browser of Windows 7 and roughly a third of the web

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   Internet Explorer 8, bundled with Windows 7, was the single most-used browser version of 2010. It had tabs, a separate search box beside the address bar, Accelerators,...

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10. Windows Live Hotmail - The world's biggest webmail, redesigned

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    Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...

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11. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger

    Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

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12. Xbox 360 S - The slim, glossy 360 with built-in Wi-Fi

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    Announced at E3 in June 2010 and in stores days later, the redesigned Xbox 360 S was slimmer, quieter, had built-in Wi-Fi and a 250 GB drive, and included a port for...

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13. Windows XP - Nine years old and still the most-used OS on Earth

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    Windows XP, released in 2001, was still the most common desktop operating system in 2010, running about half of the world's desktop web traffic. Its green Start button...

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14. Windows Vista - The one everyone skipped

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    Windows Vista, released to consumers in 2007, was widely disliked for its User Account Control prompts, driver problems and heavy hardware needs. By 2010 it was already...

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15. Limbo - Black-and-white, silent, and the summer's indie darling

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    Playdead's Limbo launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2010 as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade. Its monochrome silhouettes, giant spider and puzzle-platforming won...

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16. Internet Explorer 6 - Nine years old, still used by millions, hated by developers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-6

    IE6, released in 2001, still had a meaningful share of browser use in 2010 (around a tenth worldwide, concentrated in China and corporate offices). Google dropped...

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17. Double Rainbow - "What does it mean?"

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    Paul Vasquez filmed a double rainbow over Yosemite in January 2010 and wept with joy on camera. The clip sat unnoticed until Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it in July, after which...

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18. LinkedIn - The professional network before it became a feed

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    LinkedIn in 2010 was the online résumé: profiles, connection requests from people you met once, and recruiters' InMail. It reported passing 90 million members around the...

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19. Yahoo! - The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr

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    Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and Yahoo Finance. Under CEO...

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20. Halo: Reach - $200 million on day one

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    Bungie's last Halo game launched on 14 September 2010 and made $200 million in its first 24 hours, the biggest entertainment launch of the year until Black Ops. Its...

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21. Alan Wake - A writer, a flashlight, and the dark

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    Remedy's Alan Wake, released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, was a Twin Peaks-flavoured thriller about a novelist fighting shadows with a flashlight. It launched the same...

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22. Skype - Free calls over the internet, video included

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    Skype was how families called abroad and how long-distance couples saw each other in 2010. It reported more than 500 million registered users, offered free...

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23. GitHub - Social coding

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    GitHub, two years old in 2010, was turning Git hosting into a social network for programmers with forks, pull requests and profile pages. Rails, jQuery and Node.js...

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24. PlayStation Move - Sony's glowing-ball motion controller

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    PlayStation Move, released in September 2010, paired a glowing wand with the PlayStation Eye camera for precise motion control on the PS3. It was Sony's answer to the...

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