These days, we are hearing names of Microsoft and Google more than ever. The reasons are the new communication tool “Google Wave” and the new search engine, sorry decision engine “Bing”.
So what are these stuffs? And how are they going to affect our lives coming days?
Google Wave
Google Wave was introduced us as the future of communication. It is personal communication and collaboration tool which is open source for us to be a part of this experience. It has several properties which you can have an idea by watching Google I/O developer conference , but mainly the feature called Live Collaborative Editing makes all of us gulp for a moment. This is the feature that makes the participants reply anywhere in the message, edit the content, add participants, and then with playback feature you can rewind or forward all the process if you want. Lars Rasmussen explains the reason why they wanted to implement this feature by saying “Instant messengers spent half of your time by showing she is typing..” So by combining e-mail, chat, conversations, documents, everything together what they do is to speed up our conversations, our mailing experiences.
Microsoft Bing
Another product that gets our interests is the new search engine of Microsoft, Bing. Actually Bing is called as a decision engine instead of a search engine because it does not only show a group of results, but also it gives a bunch of information that helps us to make a decision. In the introduction video it is said that, Bing is for helping us to overcome search overload and find the best choice faster. And they say “The world does not need just another search engine, it needs a decision engine.” We can see that Microsoft has really strong feelings about Bing by looking their $80 million to $100 million ad campaigns.
Another new product of Microsoft that is being spoken these days is Xbox360 since it’s probably going to start completely a new era in game world by its “no controllers” feature.
All of these products are just signs of the coming products; I’m just curious what’s next?
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