The deal between Yahoo and Microsoft that was announced last Wednesday, signaled the change in the search engine market.

Prior to the deal, Yahoo had 30 percent of US users, while Bing had only more or less 10 percent and the other part was almost owned by Google. But with this deal, it seems that Yahoo’s market share will fell to zero percent while that of Microsoft’s Bing will jump up to 30%.

What’s with the deal?

Well… According to the report, Microsoft will now power Yahoo’s searches with its new revamped search engine called “Bing”. Then Yahoo’s obligation is to monetize the searches.

Actually, I am currently wondering if it’s a good deal to Yahoo!. For me the better deal was when Microsoft offered Billions of money for the ownership of the entire Yahoo company or part of it.

Now, I understand why.

With the report that Mark Lucovsky, an Engineering Director, is leaving Google for VMware, the story about the incident happened between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmerand Mark Lucovsky before surfaced as told by MG Siegler of Techcrunch.

But Lucovsky may be best known for the role he played in a complete and utter meltdown that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once had. As the NT architect, Lucovsky was clearly pretty vital to Microsoft, so when he went in for a meeting with Ballmer in 2004 to let him know he was leaving, you can be sure the CEO was a bit on edge.

“Just tell me it’s not Google,” Ballmer reportedly said according to court documents (for a case surrounding another Google ex-Microsoft hire). When Lucovsky said it was Google, Ballmer allegedly picked up a chair and threw it across the room.

What he apparently said next, will live on forever in Internet history.

“Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”

Schmidt, is of course, Google’s CEO. When Lucovsky still wasn’t convinced, Ballmer alledgedly went on to say, “Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.”

So up to this time, Microsoft still hates Google.

So, everyone is already expecting that Microsoft might do what Google did. And just recently, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Office 2010 will include the web-based Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. And there’s one note, these apps will be available to everyone for free.

It is said that the Microsoft Office 2010 by next year, but the demo of it is already made available. Just go straight to http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/.

In other words, it will be better to use the Google Chrome OS for the netbooks not just in price but also in speed, portability and compatibility.

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According to the reports, Bing initially got 7.81% market share in the US and it increases to 8.23%. And many techy people who are observing the trend believed that it will be stealing more market shares from Google, especially that Bing started to include the tweets on its search results.

However, when Michael Jackson died, Bing users started to learn the failures of Microsoft’s Bing. Bing just couldn’t cope with the demands of its users on the fresh news updates through its search results.

Bing’s Jacquelyn Krones stated that, “By most reports, Bing did not deliver the best experience for our customers soon after TMZ posted the news on their blog, …As Search Engine Journal pointed out, we had the story but it was hidden at the bottom of the main page and even deeper in our xRank result.“

However, those who tested Windows 7 on Netbook said that Windows 7 runs fast in Netbook with similar specs stated above.

So, it’s expected that Netbook owners would need to install Windows 7 into their Netbooks.

But the problem is, Netbooks don’t have optical media to use, except those with the USB technology. So, it would again be better if Microsoft will offer Windows 7 on USB Thumb drive already, instead of offering it in CD.

But did you know that “Bing” is the new search engine of Microsoft?

Yes! Microsoft is serious in challenging Google search engine. First, they have MSN search engine. But when they realized that MSN is too bad to compete with Google search engine, they changed it to “Live Search”. But “Live Search” failed.

So, Microsoft tried to buy the Yahoo Search Engine hoping that by combining the Live and Yahoo search engines, they might produce a better search engine that would finally compete with Google search engine. But Yahoo did not give in to what Microsoft wanted.

Now, new generation of Microsoft search engine has been launched…. I think, the term “launch” should not be used here because what Microsoft did was just introduce their new search engines but it was not really launched. You can check the URL www.bing.com and you’ll find nothing but just an announcement “Bing … Coming Soon!“.