Microsoft Surface is brilliant! I know that most of you will already know that what exactly this is all about, however I was so much moved by looking at the video of Microsoft Surface that I couldn’t control myself from not publishing anything about it – even after long time.
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In a recent report published on IndiaTimes, I found out that how much piracy is costing companies like Microsoft. According to the news, nearly 50,000 copies of Pirated Windows 7 has been sold in a city like Lucknow. The average price of pirated windows 7 is about Rs.100 ( around 2 dollars), so the total amount is nearly $ 100,000! Now, that much amount of business is of Pirated Windows 7, the actual legal copy’s business will be around $10 Million!
So if city like Lucknow where the IT industry or business industry is small as compared to the metros, is costing nearly $10 million to Microsoft then I’m sure that the number will be way to high when it comes to cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore and so on..
I’m sure few of you already know that I’ve recently shifted to Mumbai to learn Adobe technologies from TeknoPoint Multimedia. I’m currently pursuing RIA Developer Course and soon you’ll see develop applications that’ll make life simpler for bloggers in many ways. So far I’m very much enjoying what I’m learning and while I’m learning it, I’m realizing that developing softwares using Adobe Flash/Flex/ActionScript 3.0 and whatever you see in that RIA Developer course structure isn’t that difficult. And that made me think that if development of software will become this easy, then soon we’ll see whole load of applications in coming years.
YouTube, Metacafe or any other video sharing website are all powered by Adobe’s most popular technology, Flash. Everyday millions of videos are being served and it wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Adobe Flash. However, as it’s a proprietary technology, it comes with various restrictions like licenses, patents and fees too!
I am always amazed whenever I read some wonderfully researched articles by journalists, freelance writers, only to get a little disappointed when they start making comments about various other businesses based on their past records. Henry Blodget has posted this wonderfully crap article that shows how Microsoft has spent around $ 8 Billion in past on their internet business and have failed miserably. Based on this research, he strongly suggests that the company shouldn’t invest further in the internet business!