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Oscars 2016: Can Bing’s predictions outperform the pros?
The 88th Annual Academy Awards are happening on Sunday and Microsoft’s Bing search engine has released its predictions for this year’s winners. Bing has proven itself to be pretty adept at making predictions >>
Microsoft: Xbox and Bing aren’t going anywhere
Speaking at Re/code’s conference in California, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella assured gamers that the company doesn’t plan to sell its Xbox division, despite what many people advise Microsoft to do. Furthermore, he said >>
Microsoft is giving Cortana Google Now-like powers
In addition to creating its own voice-based virtual assistant that can stand its ground against Siri and Google Now, Microsoft appears ready to offer even more personalized search features to users in order >>
Making the case for keeping Bing
There’s been a lot of chatter lately from former Microsoft insiders and even reportedly from prospective Microsoft CEO candidates about killing off both Xbox and Bing, two divisions within the company that have repeatedly >>
Elop reportedly on board with killing Bing, Xbox as next Microsoft CEO
Members of Microsoft’s Bing team should get their résumés updated if Stephen Elop becomes the company’s new CEO. Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that if Elop replaces Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s chief executive, he will >>
Study suggests Microsoft’s ‘Bing-it-on’ claims are false [updated]
Surprise! It turns out that people who take Microsoft’s “Bing it on” challenge don’t actually prefer Bing to Google by a rate of 2-to-1. Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres, writing over at >>
Microsoft reportedly still refuses to give up on Bing
There have been few bigger money pits for Microsoft over the last several years than its attempts to compete with Google in the online search realm through Bing. Although Bing’s search market share >>
