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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 5/13/2011

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Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup!  The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy!

Top 5 Picks for This Week:

Analyst: WP7 to Beat Android by 2013, Not 2015

Pyramid Research's Senior Analyst and Practice Leader for Mobile Devices, Stela Bokun, has stated that her findings were misinterpreted and the platform is actually set to take the market by storm in 2013. If that's not wishful thinking then it's an incredible prediction.

How Microsoft & Skype Embarrassed Google

Now, Microsoft announces it's buying Skype for $8.5 billion, and Page and Google have never looked weaker and more vulnerable from a solution perspective. The information technology world is changing faster and more meaningfully than it ever has, and Google now is far behind Microsoft in key areas and could rapidlty lose its advantage in another.

Kinect + Skype = Video Calling Magic 

There may be many questions about Microsoft’s decision to buy Skype, but one thing is for sure — it can take video conferencing and video calling to a whole different level, thanks to Kinect. If you watch these videos, you can easily imagine the future of video-based calls.

5 Reasons Why Google’s New Chromebook Isn’t a Windows Killer

1. The price is wrong 2. Automatic updates are a nightmare 3. Do all your apps run in a browser? 4. Universal Connectivity is a pipe dream 5. There’s more to security than viruses 

Grow Your Local Presence With The New Bing Business Portal 

?Great news has arrived for SMBs that are searching for ways to make noise. This week marks the launch of the Bing Business Portal beta (BBP), a new service from Bing that makes it easy both for business owners to create, claim and control their online listings and for customers to find them using Bing search.

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