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Is it me or the title of this post just don’t make any sense.

Actually there is a new search engine in town and it is called Bing (hey I’m not binging around ).

Microsoft has actually decided to overcome its failure in the Live Search brand with Bing which is proclaimed to outstead Google and Yahoo search engines in future search use.

Why I’m covering this post  you might wonder, as it got nothing to do with laptops? For me, anything that has got to do with the internet has got everything to do with my laptop …. especially with this blog where I got to communicate with you all ….

I’m quite excited to test out the Bing feature (just to see how true Microsoft has evolved in search engine - Live Search is the one I normally avoid as it has just not live up to its expectation).

Here’s how the Bing Search engine looks like below.

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Just as the time when lots of applications on the web are running on Adobe Flash (e.g watching videos on youtube.com), Microsoft so-called flash based web application named “Silverlight” is gaining momentum as more and more web-based mash-ups/applications are based on that.

Question ….. what has it gotta do do with me?

Well, it actually has an effect on users and a techie guy like who is always on the internet; it definately does.

As more and more web applications run on silverlight, internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and many others will be affected.

How it affects the user, is when a website prompts “You need the latest version of Silverlight” message box appears on the desktop and it will be a complete disaster if your web browser does not support Silverlight.

Till now linux based browser Konqueror and cross-platform based browser Opera has yet had official support for Silverlight. Whether is it a Microsoft tactic to kill Adobe Flash or web browser competition is yet been known.

Websurfers, like you and me however, can enjoy the rich and dynamics of websites that is being displayed on our desktop.