Vista, Server 2008 SP2 RC Released to Public; Kumo is coming!
Vista
The RC was released to TechNet and MSDN subscribers last week, and is now publicly available, the company said in a blog post.
It is available via the Customer Preview Program site or Windows Update using the Windows Update Experience Kit.
This post originally appeared on AppScout.
Microsoft testing new Internet search engine Kumo
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed it is testing a new Internet search engine it hopes will power the US software giant out of distant third place in a market dominated by Google.
A Kumo.com search engine being privately tested by Microsoft workers is reportedly based on semantic technology that enables it to understand sentences and relationships between words.
Current search engines, including software used by Google, rely on matching words typed into search boxes with those found at websites and in data found on the Internet.
“There’s a good deal of excitement brewing over this test, both internally and externally, which we’re always glad to see,” Microsoft Live Search general manager Mike Nichols wrote in an online message.
“Our hope is that our employees will give us great feedback on our new features and that it all becomes part of the external experience soon.”
The Internet has buzzed with speculation regarding whether Microsoft intends to replace its Live Search with Kumo since an internal memo written about it by Satya Nadella, a Microsoft senior vice president, was leaked online this week.
Microsoft said Tuesday that the memo that ricocheted quickly about the Web “is in fact accurate.”
Nichols posted a “sneak peek” screenshot of Kumo with his message at an official Live Search blog website.
Nichols said it remains to be determined whether the Kumo codename with replace “Live Search” when it makes its public debut.
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